ECONOMICS
FISCAL POLICY
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$1.2 million to study the breeding habits of a woodchuck
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$144, 000 to see if pigeons follow human economic laws
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$18 million to redesign a government website
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$2 billion on Veteran’s affairs
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Detailed explanation-1: -Examples. An early example of pork barrel politics in the United States was the Bonus Bill of 1817, which was introduced by Democrat John C. Calhoun to construct highways linking the Eastern and Southern United States to its Western frontier using the earnings bonus from the Second Bank of the United States.
Detailed explanation-2: -The President promised to attack wasteful spending in Washington by vetoing pork-barrel spending bills.
Detailed explanation-3: -Petitioners define the term “Pork Barrel System” as the “collusion between the Legislative and Executive branches of government to accumulate lump-sum public funds in their offices with unchecked discretionary powers to determine its distribution as political largesse."[
Detailed explanation-4: -The abolition of the PDAF and other forms of pork barrel in 2013 paved the way for a new milieu in the Philippines’ budget process.