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Great Examples of Pork Barreling

Congress passed a bill with a bunch of tax breaks in order to stop having the EU continue to raise tarrifs on certain imports that’d the US had been in violation of WTO rules on (we were giving some US industries illegal subsidies). Of course, the bill is riddled with tax breaks and riders for corporations, such as $101 million for NASCAR track owners on grandstand expenses. This article has details.