in competition with each other for a share of the overall budget pie, they resort to all manner of deception to win their way. Such victories often come at the expense of American taxpayers, many of whom must endure in an era Will’s calls one of “urban regression” in The Leveling Wind, (Will 1995, 5). Will’s (2004) explains this impact in a recent column for Newsweek, “'Illusory,’ ‘inappropriate’ and ‘playing fast and loose with the budget rules’ is the decorous Senate-speak by which Sen. Judd Gregg describes Senate funding gimmicks. A less polite description might be Enronesque. What cannot be disguised is that these devices, by reaching for revenues beyond the trust fund, would worsen the budget deficit, which at $521 billion is bad enough,” (1).
In Statecraft as Soulcraft, Will (1984) attempts to provide readers with the moral and political reflection that are necessary for a free society to exist and prosper. The main thesis in this book is his belief that the on
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