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What goes around, comes around

September 7, 2006 4:50 PM by Tim Swanson (Archive)

LibertyGuys has an excellent, yet disheartening post on Congressman Curt Weldon. It illustrates how stolen money (taxes) is circulated through the legislature, to lobbyist organizations, to State-financed contractors and back to members of congress.

Thus, fulfilling two of Mencken's maxims: "Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods" and "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."

More on cui bono and kickbacks: 1 2 3

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