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Pork barrel spending, while often criticized, may serve an important purpose in passing meaningful budget reforms according to the authors. Pork projects can help incentivize members of Congress to take politically difficult votes to cut popular programs and raise taxes, which are needed to reduce the deficit but are unpopular. While not all pork projects have merit, strategically distributing some pork can help build coalitions to pass important deficit-reducing legislation that might not otherwise pass. T

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