Committees of bureaucrats have crafted real stinkers over the years. Other duff laws are the work of deep-pocketed special interests. But to create the worst government programmesschemes that combine brow-furrowing folly with gasp-inducing expensefew methods are as sure as inviting Congress to spend the money of future taxpayers, in order to pander to public sentiment today. For a case in point, consider the Wild Horse and Burro Programme of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The BLM, a federal agency which manages more than 245m acres of public land, is a whipping-boy for the environmental left and the anti-government right...
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