Well, the prospective VPILF may have made a serious tactical error by repeating the lie that she turned down the bridge to nowhere, clearly she is on record as favoring the big fat juicy earmark, and it wasn't she that killed it, it was congress.

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“ The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.”

Adam Smith , The Wealth of Nations 1776

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics"
FDR's second Inaugural Address