Giving Parking Garages New Life
Blame local government parking minimums for the overabundance of parking in the U.S.
Blame local government parking minimums for the overabundance of parking in the U.S.
Bureaucracy usually mires construction projects in delays. Florida is trying to buck that norm.
At nearly every turn, the infrastructure package opted for policies that limited supplies, hiked prices, added paperwork, and grew government.
Every dollar wasted on political pork, fraud, and poorly considered infrastructure makes the country’s fiscal situation even worse.
Lawmakers should consider a user-fee system designed to charge drivers by the mile.
Libertarians will read Ditch of Dreams as a story about bureaucracy and environmentalism run amok.
The Copenhagen Consensus has long championed a cost-benefit approach for addressing the world's most critical environmental problems.
Some progressives want to remove bureaucratic obstacles to growth—in the service of Democrats and big government.
Some progressives want to remove bureaucratic obstacles to growth—in the service of Democrats and big government.
When the Biden administration temporarily suspended its own protectionist policies, Senate Republicans voted to reinstate them.
Years ago, when interest rates were low, calls for the federal government to exercise fiscal restraint were dismissed. That was unwise.
Over the last several years, they have worked nonstop to ease the tax burden of their high-income constituents.
Since Congress won't cut spending, an independent commission may be the only way to rein in the debt.
Panic over China's rapid economic growth has fueled all manner of big-government proposals. They're looking even more foolish now.
The Labor Department is officially undoing changes made to help combat inflation in the 1980s.
It's a short-sighted approach that distracts us from the more important question.
How not to distribute federal funds
More than 90 percent of Americans already have access to high-speed internet.
Texas's $200 annual E.V. fees seem like a lot of money but is largely in line with what owners would likely pay in gas taxes.
The rail lines servicing Washington, D.C.'s Union Station are carrying as little as a quarter of their pre-pandemic ridership. Officials still want to triple the station's capacity.
A new report from Reason Foundation shows that in 2020, highway quality improved while spending stayed flat. Inflation is now wrecking that progress.
It'll be another five years before it's operational.
Industrial policy is never as simple as it seems.
Excessive government interference in the market hurts consumers and thwarts policy goals. It also gets in the way of the government itself.
Big corporations and entire industries constantly use their connections in Congress to get favors, no matter which party is in power.
True abundance requires a minimal state and free markets.
Politicians say they want to subsidize various industries, but they sabotage themselves by weighing the policies down with rules that have nothing to do with the plans.
An escalator in a subway station is considered a "component" but a fire suppression system in the same station is considered a "finished product." Why? Because the bureaucrats say so.
The president's State of the Union address re-upped a tired, old promise to spend more tax dollars on less infrastructure.
If you look closely, you'll find a lot of contradictions.
The Federal Communications Commission uses broadband coverage maps that are so severely flawed, states started shelling out to make their own.
State governments already want relief from the "Buy American" mandates included in the bipartisan infrastructure bill.
From immigration to drug reform, there is plenty of potential for productive compromise.
The West Virginia senator had proposed a series of exceedingly modest tweaks designed to speed up the yearslong environmental review process for new energy projects.
The current franchise dealership model does not benefit consumers. It also may not benefit dealerships.
Government should not penalize investment, thwart competition, discourage innovation and work, or obstruct production.
Associate Editor Christian Britschgi breaks down how zoning restrictions distort the housing market.
Why should we believe that this boondoggle will produce better results than hundreds of other corporate welfare programs?
California should build infrastructure, not shame water users.
Under Biden, Trump, and Obama, government federal spending almost doubled.
A new GAO report finds that the government lacks a "national strategy with clear roles, goals, objectives, and performance measures."
The White House is making it harder for people to request waivers from cost-increasing Buy America requirements in the $1.2 trillion infrastructure law.
In the 1980s, the Reagan administration made changes to the Davis-Bacon Act to help control inflation. The Labor Department is planning to undo them.
The president touted his support of cost-increasing 'Buy America' requirements for American infrastructure projects.