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Re: question 3

sethg@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sethg@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Nov 7 17:13:49 1990

Question 3 wasn't designed to cut out a cancer.  It was designed
to lower taxes.

As Lester Thurow noted, the "fraud, waste, and corruption" is
the best-protected part of the budget, and given a simple order
to cut taxes, legislators would rather cut Real Programs than
eliminate the graft they benefit from.

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