Posted by Tad DeHaven on July 23, 2010
By Tad DeHaven
Over at Downsizing Government, we focused on the following issues this week:
The Obama economic strategy is reminiscent of Kevin Costner’s character in the movie Field of Dreams: “Subsidize it and they will come.”
In the past decade, federal spending per household has gone through the roof.
Former Senate majority leader Trent Lott says that the Republican leadership [...]
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Posted by Tad DeHaven on July 16, 2010
By Tad DeHaven
Over at Downsizing Government, we focused on the following issues this week:
Thanks to the postal unions, the U.S. Postal Service’s utilization of part-time workers is below UPS, FedEx, and its international counterparts.
Senate Republicans want agitated voters to view their support for a discretionary spending cap as evidence that the party is serious about out-of-control spending [...]
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Posted by Tad DeHaven on July 9, 2010
By Tad DeHaven
Over at Downsizing Government, we focused on the following issues this week:
Would it take seven years for a senior manager at a private company to be fired if he goofed off and didn’t go to work?
Only a government monopoly would try to raise prices when the demand for its services is plummeting.
Are we spending $18 [...]
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Posted by Chris Edwards on June 30, 2010
By Chris Edwards
I testified to President Obama’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform today on Capitol Hill. The Commission is tasked with creating a package of specific budget reforms by December to be considered by the House and Senate.
I suggested that the Commission propose cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, farm subsidies, transportation subsidies, education subsidies, aid [...]
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Posted by Tad DeHaven on June 25, 2010
By Tad DeHaven
Over at Downsizing Government, we focused on the following issues this week:
Why a taxpayer gift to a wealthy Indian tribe in Connecticut isn’t any more egregious than the billions of dollars of other subsidies handed out by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Protectionism at the Department of Commerce is helping 200 workers at an ironing board [...]
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Posted by Tad DeHaven on June 18, 2010
By Tad DeHaven
Over at Downsizing Government, we focused on the following issues this week:
President Obama wants to give his government employee union pals another $50 billion gift courtesy of taxpayers.
An enterprising reporter from a small newspaper in Illinois shows that federal food subsidies aren’t a free lunch. It’s a good example of the sort of work reporters [...]
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Posted by Tad DeHaven on June 11, 2010
By Tad DeHaven
Over at Downsizing Government, we focused on the following issues this week:
Downsizing’s new Department of Transportation website is up and running!
A new essay on “Overpaid Federal Workers” is also up and it’s already generating a lot of buzz in the media.
Amtrak’s reputation for financial shenanigans lives on.
Kudos to the Washington Post for pointing out what [...]
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