Government Spending

• Don’t Believe the Presidents' Men In Solyndra Investigations, Tim Cavanaugh, September 19, 2011
• America: Still $5 Trillion Poorer, Tim Cavanaugh, September 16, 2011
• Solyndra Roundup: Race-to-Future Cheat, Moral Equivalence[y], Tim Cavanaugh, September 14, 2011
• Solyndra: A Big Story for the Wrong Reasons, Tim Cavanaugh, September 14, 2011
• How Much Will Obama Spend to Replace the 1 Percent of Schools That Principals Say Are Actually Falling Apart?, Nick Gillespie, September 9, 2011
• Reason TV: Reactions to Obama's Jobs Speech 9/8/2011 or, "Two Girls One Job", Paul Detrick & Sharif Christopher Matar, September 9, 2011
• The Riddle of Jerry Brown, Tim Cavanaugh, September 8, 2011
• Get Ready for the Great Infrastructure Grift of 2011!, Nick Gillespie, September 8, 2011
• Nation's Largest Pension Fund Riddled With Buttinsky Investment Criteria, Matt Welch, September 8, 2011
• Emily Ekins Says Americans Want Spending Cuts on Freedom Watch, September 7, 2011
• One Reason Why Keynesian Stimuli Aren't Working: They Aren't Keynesian, Nick Gillespie, September 7, 2011
• Your Labor Day Reading Assignment or, How Obama Could Create Jobs & Not Just Destroy Them, Nick Gillespie, September 5, 2011
• Into Libertarian "Temptation," Knowing Full Well the Earth Will Rebel, Matt Welch, September 5, 2011
• Chart of the Day, Total Government Spending Edition, Matt Welch, September 2, 2011
• Obama/Solyndra Reaction: "Should government pick winners/losers? Qualified Yes!", Tim Cavanaugh, September 2, 2011
• Nick Gillespie on Freedom Watch Talking Jobs Jobs Jobs, September 2, 2011
• Unemployee All Stars, Tim Cavanaugh, August 31, 2011
• Americans Are Open to Reforming Social Security and Medicare, Emily Ekins, August 31, 2011
• Americans Are Open to Reforming Social Security and Medicare, Emily Ekins, August 31, 2011
• Green Jobs Are No Match for Davis-Bacon, Nick Gillespie, August 31, 2011
• Fifty Seven Percent of Americans Want Washington to Focus On Reducing Spending, Emily Ekins, August 30, 2011
• Fifty Seven Percent of Americans Want Washington to Focus On Reducing Spending, Emily Ekins, August 30, 2011
• Reason-Rupe Poll: Americans Want to Cut Spending - Q&A with Emily Ekins on new Reason Rupe Public Opinion Survey, Jim Epstein & Matt Welch, August 30, 2011
• Presidential Candidate Gov. Gary Johnson: Cut Federal Spending by 43% - and Cut Social Issues From GOP Agenda, Nick Gillespie & Jim Epstein, August 30, 2011
• Reason-Rupe Poll: 57 Percent of Americans Say Spending Cuts Will Help the Economy, Emily Ekins, August 30, 2011
• Privatize K-12 or Socialize Medicine?, Shikha Dalmia, August 25, 2011
• Nick Gillespie Talks Federal Education Overreach on Fox Business' Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano, August 10, 2011
• Portlandia Shocker: Gillespie/Welch Confess to Tolerating Some Environmental Regulations and a Social Safety Net!, Matt Welch, August 10, 2011
• Shoveling Your Federal Income Taxes Into the Pensions of State Employees, in the Name of Affordable Housing, Matt Welch, August 8, 2011
• U.S. Debt Now 100% Fun!, Matt Welch, August 4, 2011
• Semi-Q&A With Matt Welch in Sacto's Capitol Weekly, and Jerry Brown's Fire-Breathing Second Inaugural, Matt Welch, August 4, 2011
• The Debt-Ceiling Debate is Dead! Long Live the Debt! Or, Will ObamaCare Cover What Krugman's Smoking?, Nick Gillespie, August 1, 2011
• A Song About National Debt: "You're Gonna Pay", Nick Gillespie, July 31, 2011
• Must Cowboy Poets Die for America to Live? PJTV's James Poulos Talks to Nick Gillespie about Debt Limits, Partisan Wrangling, & How Hate Mail is a Sign of the Libertarian Moment, July 30, 2011
• McCain Assails "Tea Party Hobbits", Matt Welch, July 27, 2011
• Reason Writers Around Town: Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch in the Washington Examiner on "What both parties must understand about the budget", July 27, 2011
• Reason.tv: Remy-Raise The Debt Ceiling Rap, July 26, 2011
• Nick Gillespie & Matt Welch on San Fran's KQED at 10am PT/1pm ET, July 26, 2011
• Reason Writers Around Town: Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch on the Debt Ceiling and Independents in the L.A. Times, July 26, 2011
• Obama to Talk About Debt-Ceiling Tonight at 9pm ET: Open Thread, Nick Gillespie, July 25, 2011
• Death is the Most Effective H.R. Manager for Federal Employees, Nick Gillespie, July 20, 2011
• When's the Last Time the Feds Spent Just 18% of GDP? Hint: You Don't Have to Go Back to 1966, Nick Gillespie, July 19, 2011
• Reason on Television: Tim Cavanaugh on KTLA, July 18, 2011
• Hooray! Congress Is Finally Scaling Back Ethanol Subsidies! Except for Not, Matt Welch, July 18, 2011
• Success: Empty City, No Business, Carpool Lane, Unfinished Job, Tim Cavanaugh, July 17, 2011
• Carmageddon: L.A.'s Biggest Nothing Since Tom Bradley, Tim Cavanaugh, July 16, 2011
• "Between 2007 and 2011 alone, the rate has increased 38 cents per dollar.", Nick Gillespie, July 14, 2011
• "Professional Pols" or "The Public" — Who's Smarter? Tim Cavanaugh Talks With Jerry Doyle, 1:30PM Pacific, July 13, 2011
• Reason.tv: Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), July 13, 2011
• Tim Cavanaugh Mourns Stimulus on WBAL, 1:35 PM Eastern, July 13, 2011
• OK Sports Fans (Read: Taxpayers): Are the Bengals and Reds Worth a Billion Dollars?, Nick Gillespie, July 13, 2011
• California's Highest-Paid State Employee Is a Doctor No One Trusts to Treat Patients, Matt Welch, July 13, 2011
• Rhode Island Cities Run Out of Other People's Money, Matt Welch, July 12, 2011
• Tim Cavanaugh Mourns Stimulus on WBAL, Today 2:35 PM Eastern Wednesday 1:35 Eastern, July 12, 2011
• The Absolute Unreality of Budget & Debt-Limit Debates (Austerity Edition), Nick Gillespie, July 12, 2011
• Reason.tv: Economist Murat Yülek on Greek Debt, Turkish Growth, & U.S. Budget Woes, Joshua Swain, July 11, 2011
• Memo to Republicans: Offer to End Corporate Welfare As We Know it, Matt Welch, July 11, 2011
• Cattle Queen of Wyoming 'Splains Why She's Voting No on Debt-Limit Increase, Nick Gillespie, July 11, 2011
• Geithner Believes “Foreseeable” Is a “Complicated Word”, Tim Cavanaugh, July 10, 2011
• For All The Talk About the Debt Ceiling & Trimming Bazillions Off Deficits in the Year 2525 (If Man is Still Alive), What's the @#$%!� Budget Gonna Be for 2012?, Nick Gillespie, July 6, 2011
• 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
• 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