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The Black Budget

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 Besides, U.S. Const. Art. 1, Sec. 9, Cl. 7 provides: "No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time." The black budget is a blatant violation of this clause, but the Supreme Court case ruling on the question (U.S. v. Richardson), elided the important question with a technicality over standing.
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>		The case cited below prevented legal challenge to the Black Budget by the legal fiction of lack of standing. I should analyze other standing cases and demarcate the degree of hypocrisy.
 

Study Idea

An interesting study would create an individualized survey for a sample of taxpayers that calibrated the annual costs of the defense budget to the respondent's income. A survey question would give a short description of a defense program, and then state how much the respondent is spending in taxes to fund it this year (or will spend later, since its deficit spending). Then the person will check a box, deciding whether the program should stay or go.

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