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Earmarks are a Symptom of the Problem

Tad DeHaven — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:50:31 +0000

A Washington Post investigation identified dozens of examples of federal policymakers directing federal dollars to projects that benefited their property or an immediate family member. Members of Congress have been enriching themselves at taxpayer expense? In other news, the sun rose this morning. According to the Post, “Under the ethics rules Congress has written for [...]

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New Congressional Budget Office Numbers Once Again Show that Modest Spending Restraint Would Eliminate Red Ink

Daniel J. Mitchell — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:51:18 +0000

By Daniel J. Mitchell

Back in 2010, I crunched the numbers from the Congressional Budget Office and reported that the budget could be balanced in just 10 years if politicians exercised a modicum of ...

New Congressional Budget Office Numbers Once Again Show that Modest Spending Restraint Would Eliminate Red Ink is a post from Cato @ Liberty - Cato Institute Blog

Senator Schumer’s Feeble Grasp of Fiscal History

Daniel J. Mitchell — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:20:22 +0000

By Daniel J. Mitchell

I’m not a big fan of Senator Schumer of New York. As I’ve noted before, he’s a doctrinaire statist who wants the government to have control over just about every aspect of our lives. But that describes a lot of people in Washington. I guess what also bothers me is his willingness to say anything, [...]

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Looking for Serious Program Terminations

Tad DeHaven — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:59:38 +0000

By Tad DeHaven

The House passed a bill last week eliminating the Presidential Election Campaign Fund, which the Tax Foundation calls a “voluntary tax that stirs little enthusiasm.” It would also save a whopping $14 million by eliminating the Election Action Committee and transferring certain functions to other federal agencies. The Republican-sponsored bill passed on a straight party-line [...]

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Debate Needed on Nuclear Weapons Spending

Christopher Preble — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:13:32 +0000

By Christopher Preble

Nuclear weapons have played a major role in U.S. force planning for many decades. But we have never had a thorough accounting of the total cost of these weapons, and we still don’t. (The best to date is probably this study by Stephen I. Schwartz and Deepti Choubey, but they don’t claim to capture every [...]

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It Goes Beyond the Supercommittee

Roger Pilon — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:19:41 +0000

By Roger Pilon

Today Politico Arena asks: Should Obama have led the supercommittee? My response: Whether or not Obama had led the supercommittee in its effort to trim a pittance from our federal deficits and debt, the effort was doomed from the start for the reasons committee co-chairman Jeb Hensarling stated in this morning’s Wall Street Journal: “Ultimately, the committee did [...]

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