Busting the federal budget wide open is already bad enough. As it turns out, Congress can't even vote to waste more of our money without sneaking unrelated, awful policies into the bill.
The House of Representatives voted today to pass an almost $1.4 trillion spending package, increasing discretionary spending by another $50 billion compared to last year. It is, of course, true that nondiscretionary spending — the part of the budget Congress has already committed to entitlements — is what's really driving our debt crisis to the point where we now collectively owe nearly $190,000 per taxpayer. Still, this bloated discretionary budget bill just makes things worse, dodging many meaningful opportunities for spending cuts and allocating more money to the bottomless holes known as our federal agencies.
It gets worse.
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