Earmarks Are Still a Bad Idea

Earmarks Are Still a Bad Idea | Opinion
Ken Buck
, Republican congressman, Colorado
On 3/11/21 at 7:30 AM EST
Bad ideas in Washington, D.C. never really die. They just go on hiatus for a while and sometimes get a name change or a refreshed image. Earmarks are the latest bad idea Congress is attempting to bring back into circulation.
Earmarks are single-line-item spending for pet projects that were wisely banned in 2010 after a series of high-profile corruption stories. Who can forget the famous "Bridge to Nowhere" in Alaska? The proposed bridge would have connected Ketchikan, Alaska to Gravina Island, and would have cost an estimated total of $398 million. The project was popular among the Alaskan congressional delegation, but was correctly understood by the American people as a waste of taxpayer funding.

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