Editorial: Iraq war, not earmarks, busting federal budget

Bridge to nowhere: $398 million. Pre-emptive war to nowhere: $3 trillion. Sometimes it’s important to review where our federal tax dollars go and in what proportions. Conventional political spin would have us believe that spending on unnecessary earmarks is busting the budget while the war in Iraq need not enter our fiscal consciousness because it’s funded with “supplementals” and therefore “off budget.”