Self-Abuse: Government Lobbies Government
Tim Carney reports:
Government is constantly lobbied, but it is often a lobbyist, too. Governments and government agencies have spent just over $100 million lobbying Washington since the beginning of 2009. That doesn’t include the tab for cities, towns and counties lobbying their state governments. [...]
Local government officials are using your money to hire former government officials to ask current federal officials to give local governments more federal money — and future taxpayers will foot the bill for this whole racket.
Economists can argue about the economic virtues of such a “stimulus,” but on the question of battling the special interests, it’s another failure for the Obama administration.
In the wake of the Spill Speech, Michael Dougherty tweets: "I''m sorry. But you can't do corporate welfare one day, then, when it's unpopular, throw out the rule of law to punish your partner." N.B.: Buying Tim's book Obamanomics is stimulus I can believe in.
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