10 budget-cutting suggestions for Paul Ryan and Patty Murray
The challenge will be setting aside the usual special-interest pleading and finding long-term consensus.
View ArticleThe budget deal is a huge Republican cave-in
Paul Ryan gives in to restoring $45 billion of what the sequester cut
View ArticleWhy is the federal government so wasteful?
Government waste is a systemic problem, since it has no incentive to fix problems.
View ArticleThe real lesson of Bridgegate: Privatize the Port Authority
If Christie's cronies asked a CEO to cause traffic mischief, they'd get told off.
View ArticleCutting the $4 trillion budget
Spending in all categories has surpassed inflation by more than double.
View ArticlePaul Ryan’s poverty plan charts a moderate path, not a conservative one
Fundamental critiques of welfare programs are left out, while implying tweaking could work.
View Article10 ways the Income Tax harms civil liberties
Chief Justice John Marshall famously observed in 1819 that 'the power to tax involves the power to destroy.'
View ArticleHow The Modern Politician Advertises His Pork-Bearing Skills
Believe what they do, not what they say.
View ArticleWhy Ending FEMA Will Improve Disaster Response
National-level aid is more wasteful and less effective than at the local level.
View ArticleThankfully, Obama’s Dumb Capital Gains Plan Is Going Nowhere
Cutting tax rates, not raising them, is the real way to make economic policy work.
View ArticleObama’s Tax Plan Is Not Simple
The president promised us “middle-class economics,” but his tax plan is more like H&R Block economics.
View ArticleTax Day: Not Painful Enough
Fiscal illusions embolden politicians to spend money on activities that make no economic sense.
View ArticleMartin O’Malley’s Terrible Fiscal Record
He increased taxes so much that even this heavily Democratic state revolted at the ballot box.
View ArticleGovernment Debt: Jefferson And Gallatin Were Right
If Hamilton is going to be replaced, we should swap him out for Albert Gallatin.
View ArticleAir Traffic Control: Ripe For Reform
The Canadians are right — it’s time to privatize our air traffic control system.
View ArticleJunk Food Stamps
The food stamp program is one of the government’s biggest hypocrisies.
View ArticleOPINION: Wealthy Taxpayers Are Fleeing These States In Droves
The top 1 percent in New Jersey pay 37 percent of the state’s income taxes
View ArticleOPINION: 10 Harmful Consequences Of Handouts For Amazon
Allowing politicians to hand-out business subsidies at their discretion generates corruption
View ArticleOPINION: Congress Shouldn’t Have To Pass The Farm Bill To Find Out What’s In It
Congress is set to pass an appalling farm bill that increases subsidies rather than reforming them
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