Neither wanted to be seen as favouring either tax increases or corporate boondoggles .
两人都不想被视作赞成增税或增加企业不必要的开支。
His proposed climate-change bill , whose chances of becoming law before the mid-terms look slim , would be much improved if boondoggles were removed from it .
Spend any time in brazil and you will get used to hearing the impending football world cup ( in 2014 ) and olympics ( in 2016 ) used as justification for all manner of boondoggles .
Others suggest it is an indicator of a growing stock of white elephants-government-driven real estate and infrastructure boondoggles encouraged to prevent the economy from collapsing as export growth slows .
Indeed , they are often blatant boondoggles : steve ellis of taxpayers for common sense points for example to hefty sums spent on the polynesian voyaging society of hawaii and " beaver management " in north carolina , in addition to the improved shuttle buses of western kentucky university .
