Earmarks: A Monumentally Bad Idea By Congressman Tom McClintock ...Middle East

Washington, DC…Ever since the Magna Carta, it has been a settled principle of good governance that the power that appropriates public funds should not be the same power that spends them. This principle is at the heart of our Constitution: the separation of powers. Simply speaking, it is mother’s rule writ large. Mother has one slice of pie and two hungry sons. How does she cut the pie so that both brothers are satisfied? One slices, and the other chooses. One brother cannot abuse his powers precisely because of the powers accorded the other. So it is with our Constitution. One brother makes law but cannot enforce it; the other enforces law but cannot make it. One brother appropriates money

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