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"You must spend money," observed Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus, "to make money."
That constitutes sound advice for investors and business owners. In government, politicians effortlessly twist the proverb into: "You must spend taxpayer money to justify spending even more taxpayer money."
Forget about Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton. The most interesting and consequential contest of the presidential campaign — and of the next four or eight years, if Clinton prevails in the election — may just be the one between Crooked Hillary and Saint Hillary.
Just in the past week, a Douglas Band memo exposed the overlap between the Clinton family charity and its for-profit business interests. The FBI director notified Congress that additional Hillary Clinton emails exist on a computer seized in an otherwise unrelated investigation of interstate sexting by former Congressman Anthony Weiner. And it emerged that the Clintons had failed to seek or obtain the building permits required for an extensive renovation on a house they acquired in Chappaqua, N.Y.