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Government Spending: Better Than No Spending

In my column for The Week , I write about how even wasteful government spending is better then no spending at all: Government spending is often wasteful. But it's still spending. When the Department of Waste, Fraud & Abuse buys toothpicks for the office cafeteria, that money is …

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Written by David Frum on Thursday July 21, 2011