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“Internal improvements” were pork-barrel public works projects. Tax revenues were to be spent for programs that benefited everyone, not a specific segment of the population.
The Confederate Founders also tried to make sure that there would be no open-ended commitments or entitlement programs in the Confederate States
In another attack on pork-barrel spending, the Confederate Constitution gave the President a line-item veto. Continue reading “Thus the Southern Founders sought to prohibit general revenues from being used for the benefit of special interests”
