(03-31-2023, 07:22 AM)copycat Wrote:

(03-30-2023, 09:09 PM)mikesez Wrote: At the state level we have so many dedicated accounts with so many revenue streams feeding them, that it might be practical to try to make a one topic rule for out legislature, with the one exception being a bill that raises dedicated funds and also designates how to spend them.  But at the federal level there are fewer dedicated funds.  And at both levels most of the spending is out of the general fund, and that's where most of the potentially corrupt deals are made.

I’m not following you.  At the federal level if you want to propose a bill to build a bridge in St. Johns county congress votes on building a bridge in St. Johns county and that’s it.  No attachments, no tacking on new proposals unrelated to building a bridge and no new laws magically appearing out of thin air.