Where is the wonky journalist to follow up these stats in Milbank's clever concept? So that "makers" and "takers" become not just epithets thrown around but actual graphs and lists of where federal dollars are going and coming. We could scoop that for the public to throw some factual ammunition at the budget fights in Congress. For example, is the biggie in the Ag budget the food stamps? What else are the states getting from it? Ratio of "take over make" in Alabama is 1.71 while Calif. is 0.79, really? Where are the real "gifts"? Clarifying a few nitty-gritty details could dodge the distractions and make more obvious the fairness among all the tax and spend, make and take, red and blue. (scooped by Jeanne Bear)
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