General Discussion

It's been lost in the milieu of government irresponsibility through the decades. I know the repugs wanted to capture that money as soon as it started coming in, and that's actually what they began to do... funding some of pet projects and tax breaks with it. Gore and Clinton made it into a kind of "lockbox" that supposedly kept people like them away from the money. And Gore was positively ridiculed for it. Oh, how things would have been different if SCOTUS hadn't stuck their nose into OUR election and CHOOSE our Prez themselves that year!