Government Spending

• Recently at Reason.tv: Free* Government Money With Matthew Lesko!, June 4, 2009
• California: Harbinger of Fiscal Doom, Brian Doherty, June 3, 2009
• Reason.tv: Free* Government Money With Matthew Lesko!, June 3, 2009
• Stimulus Tax Dollars at Work! or, When Budgets for Jails Get Cut, It's a Recession. When Ohio Cops Don't Get an Anti-Terrorist Boat, It's a Depression, Nick Gillespie, June 3, 2009
• New at Reason: Matt Welch on Newspapers Blaming California Voters, June 2, 2009
• Blame the Voters, Pass the Buck, Matt Welch, June 2, 2009
• Robert Samuelson: "Obama has inspired a collective fawning", Matt Welch, June 1, 2009
• The $499,000 Pension and Other Tales of California Governance, Matt Welch, June 1, 2009
• Reason Morning Links: Is It Still News When the Government Takes Over a Car Company?, Jesse Walker, June 1, 2009
• Matt Welch on KFI's John and Ken Show at 5 pm PDT, Talking California Budget Politics, Matt Welch, May 29, 2009
• California's Silent Big Spenders, Matt Welch, May 28, 2009
• LAT Columnist: State Spending Problem a "Myth"...Unless You Count All State Spending, Matt Welch, May 28, 2009
• Reason.tv: From the horror masters behind The Auto Bailout, The Stimulus Package, & White House Poetry Night comes a story of true terror..., May 27, 2009
• How Could the Country's Richest State* Have One of the Most Insolvent Public Pension Systems?, Matt Welch, May 27, 2009
• David Harsanyi: "i don't think you want to move to colorado ...", Nick Gillespie, May 26, 2009
• Paul Krugman: If Only California Could Just Raise Taxes, Matt Welch, May 26, 2009
• Reason Morning Links: Nukes, Riots, Pizza, and Other Dangers, Jesse Walker, May 26, 2009
• The California Scare Campaign, Matt Welch, May 24, 2009
• Loco Legislators, Nicole Russell, May 22, 2009
• Green Shoots bustin' out all over, Tim Cavanaugh, May 21, 2009
• Going Dutch, Michael C. Moynihan, May 21, 2009
• California Nightmare: All The Voters are Mad, and the Ink is Red, Brian Doherty, May 21, 2009
• Matt Welch on WBAL at 3:35 EDT to Talk California Politics, Matt Welch, May 21, 2009
• Why Governments Are Lousy at Running Business, But Excellent at Scaring You About "Annihilating" Budget Cuts, Matt Welch, May 21, 2009
• California's Political/Journalistic Class = Fail, Matt Welch, May 20, 2009
• Reason.tv: Privatization in the Age of Obama—Reason Foundation's Adrian Moore and Len Gilroy on What's Next, May 19, 2009
• Even Gov. Arnold Won't Defend His Record/Ballot Initiatives in Today's Special Election in California!, Nick Gillespie, May 19, 2009
• Government Buy Nothing Days, Tim Cavanaugh, May 18, 2009
• Robert Samuelson: "burgeoning debt could trigger a future financial crisis", Matt Welch, May 18, 2009
• $17 Billion in Budget Cuts: A Lot of Money; $18 Billion in Earmarks: Not a Lot, Jacob Sullum, May 15, 2009
• Recently at Reason.tv: Hasta La Vista, Arnold!—What California's Economic Mess Means for America, May 15, 2009
• Let The Dead Bury The Dead—But They Can Pay For It With a Stimulus Check!, Nick Gillespie, May 15, 2009
• Reason.tv: Hasta La Vista, Arnold!—What California's budget mess means for America, May 14, 2009
• ...And the Calvinball and 43-Man Squamish Budgets Are Frankly Bankrupting the School District..., Brian Doherty, May 13, 2009
• To Dream the Impossible Dream, Jesse Walker, May 13, 2009
• Hawk in Hock, Jacob Sullum, May 13, 2009
• Laid Off? The Federal Government is Hiring!, Nick Gillespie, May 12, 2009
• Reason.tv Redux: Why The Privately Owned Site Recovery.org, Not The Feds' Own Recovery.gov, Is Tracking Stimulus Spending in Real Time, Nick Gillespie, May 12, 2009
• Tea Party: Drink Up, Democrats!, Brian Doherty, May 11, 2009
• Taxpayer Money Spent to Determine Whether Your Taxpayer Money Spent to Conclude That Your Taxpayer Money Spent to Propagandize for the War Was Well Spent, Concludes That it Wasn't, Matt Welch, May 6, 2009
• Reason.tv: Obama's French Toast—Just Say Non, Nick Gillespie, April 30, 2009
• Storm Ahead, Brian Doherty, April 29, 2009
• TARP Banks Get Headhunted, Katherine Mangu-Ward, April 29, 2009
• President of Everything, Brian Doherty, April 27, 2009
• Reason.tv: Jeffrey Miron on The Financial Crisis and The Case For Doing Nothing, Nick Gillespie, April 27, 2009
• Barney Frank's Meatloaf Impersonation When it Comes to Freedom: Two Out of Three Ain't Bad (But It Ain't Good Enough, Either), Nick Gillespie, April 24, 2009
• Journalist Writes Story, Ruins All The Fun, Jeff Winkler, April 24, 2009
• Infrastructure, Not So Crumbling, Brian Doherty, April 23, 2009
• "This is Bad, Filthy Money, Folks": Ohio's Warren County Flips Off Feds, Rejects Stimulus Dollars, Nick Gillespie, April 23, 2009
• This Just in: High Taxes Plus High Unionization Correlates to Joblessness!, Matt Welch, April 22, 2009
• Reason.tv: Tea Party Confidential—Matt Kibbe of Freedomworks tells what's coming next in the hugely popular anti-government-spending movement., Nick Gillespie, April 21, 2009
• You've Got Just Three Months to Reduce Your Spending By One Cup of Coffee!, Matt Welch, April 21, 2009
• Reason Writers Around Town: Brian Doherty in The American Conservative on Barack Obama as "The President of Everything", April 20, 2009
• They Bet On One Horse To Win And I Bet On Another To Blow, Jeff Winkler, April 17, 2009
• "Socially Conservative Bills Stall in Florida Senate", Matt Welch, April 15, 2009
• "Stop the War, Stop the Spending", Brian Doherty, April 15, 2009
• The Government Looks So Big When the Other Guy's in Charge!, Matt Welch, April 14, 2009
• Washington: First in War, First in Peace, and Saddled With a Costly, Underperforming Taxpayer-Funded Stadium, Nick Gillespie, April 13, 2009
• Your Stimulus Tax Dollars at Work—in 2011 or Later, Nick Gillespie, April 13, 2009
• Recently at Reason.tv: Stop Spending Our Future!, W-2 WTF?!?!, 3 Great Reasons to Pay Your Taxes (or Else!), April 10, 2009
• Who Knows Where the Cash Goes?, Brian Doherty, April 10, 2009
• Remember, 95 Percent of Americans Will See a Tax Cut!, Matt Welch, April 9, 2009
• Here's Another $300 Million in Stimulus Spending You Can Expect to Get Totally Pissed Away by The Same Housing Agencies The Feds Say Pissed Away Earlier $$$, Nick Gillespie, April 9, 2009
• Reason.tv: Stop Spending Our Future!, April 8, 2009
• You'd Think That Increasing Lifespans Would Be All The Bailout Life Insurance Companies Ever Needed, But Now They're Getting TARP Funds, The Bastards!, Nick Gillespie, April 8, 2009
• Meet the New Budget, Worse Than the Old Budget, Nick Gillespie, April 3, 2009
• Pay Cuts For Thee, But Not For Me (if Me is a Federal Worker), Nick Gillespie, April 3, 2009
• Reason Morning Links: Pols Spend Trillions, Police Behave Badly, and Andy Richter Saves the Universe, Jesse Walker, April 3, 2009
• Reason.tv: Introducing the Government-Backed DMV Automotive Repair Center!, April 1, 2009
• Factoid of the Day, Matt Welch, April 1, 2009