Government Spending

• Van Jones: "We are not broke--we were robbed, we were robbed. And somebody has our money!", Matt Welch, July 5, 2011
• Hail to the Liberal Version of the Laffer Curve, Nick Gillespie, July 5, 2011
• ‘Long Prison Terms Are Wasteful Government Spending’, Zach Weissmueller, July 2011
• The Debt Ceiling Walks the Red Carpet, Anthony Randazzo & Satya Thallam, June 27, 2011
• Deliberative Polling Discovery: Taxes Create Great Weather, Tim Cavanaugh, June 26, 2011
• Public Pays for Half-Million-Dollar L.A. Tourism Salary, Tim Cavanaugh, June 23, 2011
• California Controller to Pols: No Pay for You!, Tim Cavanaugh, June 21, 2011
• Cut, Cap, Balance: How to Address the Debt Ceiling Issue, June 21, 2011
• No Happy Ending to Greek Financial Crisis (Except for the Greeks), Nick Gillespie, June 20, 2011
• True Keynesians: We Must Spew Out Lukewarm Keynesians, Tim Cavanaugh, June 19, 2011
• Green Shoots Bustin' Out All Over: How Much More Awesome News Can One Economy Take?, Tim Cavanaugh, June 17, 2011
• Jerry Brown vs. Democrats; Cavanaugh Update On California Veto, Tim Cavanaugh, June 17, 2011
• Jerry Brown Vetoes California Budget, Cavanaugh on 10 O'Clock News Again Tonight, Tim Cavanaugh, June 16, 2011
• Bullet Train Brings America Up to Date, Like Spain, Tim Cavanaugh, June 10, 2011
• Great News! Geithner's Job Is Secure, Tim Cavanaugh, June 9, 2011
• Reason.tv Replay: 3 Reasons Not to Fund Art with Taxes (& Yes, There's a Weiner Connection!), Nick Gillespie & Meredith Bragg, June 9, 2011
• Wednesday Morning Arts Roundup, Jesse Walker, June 8, 2011
• Reason.tv: 3 Reasons Not to Fund Art with Taxes (& Yes, There's a Weiner Connection!), Nick Gillespie & Meredith Bragg, June 8, 2011
• Prison Guards Union Locks Up Benefits, Politicians, People, Tim Cavanaugh, June 7, 2011
• High-Speed Rail: Dead and Loving It, Tim Cavanaugh, June 7, 2011
• Times' Kristof on "this Republican Eden, this Utopia...Pakistan", Nick Gillespie, June 7, 2011
• Obama, Boehner Should Play Mini-Golf to Haggle Over Mini-Cuts to Budget, Nick Gillespie, June 6, 2011
• America Pays for Villaraigosa’s Transit Legacy, Tim Cavanaugh, June 2, 2011
• N.Y. Times Admits Recession Not Over; Proposes Hilarious Solutions, Tim Cavanaugh, May 31, 2011
• Niall Ferguson on the "Deficits Forever" Club, Matt Welch, May 31, 2011
• Great L.A. Child Shortage Solves Class-Size "Problem", Tim Cavanaugh, May 28, 2011
• Taxpayer-Funded Science Foundation Spends $1.5 Million Building Robot That Takes 25 Minutes To Fold a Towel, Peter Suderman, May 27, 2011
• Tonight's Stossel on Fox Business Provides the Best, Most-Inclusive Discussion of Budget Issues Ever!, Nick Gillespie, May 26, 2011
• Prairie State Debt, Peter Suderman, May 26, 2011
• Reason.tv: Adrian Moore, Len Gilroy, Tim Cavanaugh & Anthony Randazzo - On Privatization & Government Reform, May 25, 2011
• Obama Administration Finds Federal Government Spends $125 Billion on Improper Payments, Proposes Pilot Programs That Might Save $100 Million, Peter Suderman, May 23, 2011
• What Brave Politician Will Speak for the 74 Percent of Americans Who Want a Federal Spending Cap?, Nick Gillespie, May 23, 2011
• Tim Cavanaugh Talks Inflation, QE3 & Spengler at PJTV, May 19, 2011
• Rich People Underappreciated in Golden State, Tim Cavanaugh, May 19, 2011
• State of Virginia Spends $3,500 Tracking Down $1,117 Worth of Video Game Waste, Peter Suderman, May 18, 2011
• 74 Percent of Americans Want a Federal Spending Cap, May 17, 2011
• Who Owns U.S. Debt? You & Me, Mostly..., Nick Gillespie, May 16, 2011
• Veronique de Rugy on C-SPAN, Talking Debt Ceiling, Nick Gillespie, May 16, 2011
• Federal Pensions Are a Sweetheart Deal That Needs to Be Soured, Nick Gillespie, May 16, 2011
• Reason Columnist Veronique de Rugy on C-SPAN's Washington Journal, Monday 8.20AM, Talking Debt Ceiling, May 15, 2011
• Paramedics find 1,100-pound Goldman Sachs buried in cupcakes and pizza, Tim Cavanaugh, May 15, 2011
• Reason.tv: Bob Poole and Adrian Moore: Why Highways Beat High-Speed Rail, May 13, 2011
• In Xanadu Did Chris Christie a Stately Boondoggle Decree..., Nick Gillespie, May 13, 2011
• Cities Shake Down Nonprofits for Property Taxes "voluntary payments" Linked to the Value of Their Property, Matt Welch, May 12, 2011
• Redevelopment Agency Gives Billionaire $52 Million for Art Project, Tim Cavanaugh, May 11, 2011
• High Speed Rail Is Dead, Tim Cavanaugh, May 10, 2011
• The Social Justice of $3,000 Battery Trays, Matt Welch, May 10, 2011
• Boehner's Big Number Ain't Really That Big, Nick Gillespie, May 10, 2011
• After 70 Years of Redevelopment, We Need More Redevelopment, Tim Cavanaugh, May 9, 2011
• Reason Writers on Freedom Watch: Matt Welch Talks About "the single most important poll that will determine who wins the White House in 2012", May 9, 2011
• Unemployment Number (Back to 9%) Makes Today a Perfect Day to Fire Geithner, Tim Cavanaugh, May 6, 2011
• Bin Laden and the Budget Debate, Anthony Randazzo, May 4, 2011
• Where Have You Gone, Oscar Gamble or, Will '70s-Style Fiscal Haircuts Ever Make a Comeback?, Nick Gillespie, May 4, 2011
• The Debt Limit Cometh!, Nick Gillespie, April 29, 2011
• $668K/Year Public Hospital President Double-dips $3.9 Million Extra Pension, Tim Cavanaugh, April 28, 2011
• Government Creates Poverty, John Stossel, April 28, 2011
• L.A. Times Multiple Choice: A) Raise Taxes B) Raise Taxes C) Raise Taxes, Tim Cavanaugh, April 27, 2011
• Massachusetts Dems Push to Limit Public Employees' Collective Bargaining, Nick Gillespie, April 27, 2011
• What Are California Cities Hiding?, Tim Cavanaugh, April 26, 2011
• L.A. Times Buried Lede: 86% Support Cutting California Spending, Tim Cavanaugh, April 25, 2011
• America's Lost Decade Now In Its Eleventh Year, Tim Cavanaugh, April 25, 2011
• Reason at Fox Biz: Cavanaugh, Napolitano Talk Muni Outsourcing, April 24, 2011
• The Truth About Taxes and Redistribution, Veronique de Rugy, April 22, 2011
• New Deficit Strategy: Flaming the Messenger, Matt Welch, April 22, 2011
• Lawrence O'Donnell Has Not Quite The Last Word on Raising the Debt Ceiling, Nick Gillespie, April 22, 2011
• From the "Our Government Can't Afford to Spend a Penny Less" Files: Useless New Initiative on Prescription Drugs, Brian Doherty, April 20, 2011
• Krugman's "23 Percent Solution" & Historical Levels of Government Revenue, Nick Gillespie, April 19, 2011
• Standard & Poors Downgrades "outlook on the long-term rating of the U.S. sovereign"*, Matt Welch, April 18, 2011
• Obama Will Cut Waste & Inefficiency in Defense by Jacking it Through the Roof, Nick Gillespie, April 14, 2011
• Reason.tv: 47 Ways to Say "IRS" ... What do those initials really stand for?, April 14, 2011