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The article boils down like this: McCain's plan can't work the way he's outlined it to us during his campaign. It calls for too high a loss in tax revenue and too little of a decrease in spending. Tax cuts for the wealthy will continue, the war will continue, and this will all be affordable, according to him, by eliminating earmarks.

Now... earmarks... Our government acts like these things are dirty awful hedonistic burdens on our democracy. I think they are as good or bad as our elected officials. And actually, we're spending these earmarks on things we typically need here in America. Of particular interest are all the programs that are geared towards pumping money into dramatically underfunded local projects in poor neighborhoods.
Earmarks tracking database.

Earmarks take power away from the executive branch and put it in the hands of congress. So I feel like it's kind of shady for an executive candidate to ask for them to give up that option. If we wanna cut costs there are a couple of big culprits to look at before this "porkbarrel" spending we love to demonize.