Line item veto is definitely too much power for any one person to have, even if I trusted the president. I agree that each appropriation should stand on its own merits, and ideally a bill should not contain appropriations or clauses not germane to the initial concept of the bill.   Unfortunately, the same people who would determine what was germane are the people making the porkbarrel in the first place. The $64.01 was my rebate.