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The battles over the federal budget seem to become longer every year. The problem, says Caiden, a political scientist at the California State College at San Bernardino, is not only that "reform" is needed, but that the very idea of an annual budget is obsolete.
Originally, the annual budget, submitted the President and modi- fied on Capitol Hill, was intended...