The Era of Small Government Is Over
Is there any hope to check the growth of the state?
Is there any hope to check the growth of the state?
Maybe drawings can deter elected officials from their outrageous spending habits where detailed reports have failed to attract their attention.
For Biden, the pandemic has become a catchall justification for a slew of big-government programs that he and the Democratic Party already wanted to pursue.
"We need a Green New Deal for Public Housing," says Rep. Jamaal Bowman. "We need a Green New Deal for Cities…and we need a Green New Deal for Public Schools."
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The effort to redefine everything as infrastructure is a gift to central planners—because infrastructure is, almost by definition, centrally planned.
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The short-term inflation outlook isn't as grim as it looks, but the long-term situation could be awful
Just because a politician says something doesn't make it so.
The president loves big government for its own sake and doesn’t really care what it does.
Democrats never miss an opportunity to rail against big corporations. Yet they're eagerly subsidizing their big corporate friends.
When everything’s infrastructure, nothing is.
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg admitted the mistake and walked back the administration's job creation promises on Monday night.
Americans distract themselves with freak-show headlines while political institutions escape their control.
We don't need Biden's 21st century 'New Deal' to rebound.
The president endorses a competitive grant program that would reward localities for loosening their restrictive zoning codes.
Workers will suffer.
The president's speech outlining his American Jobs Plan was rich in ambition, but light on details.
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The scale of the current relief efforts means that many Americans received more income during this pandemic than they did before it.
And it has failed in almost every country where it's been tried.
This time with tax increases too!
Legislators view the disease as a license to spend like there’s no tomorrow.
What does this have to do with the pandemic? Nothing.
We will likely grapple with the consequences of ill-advised COVID-19 policies for years to come.
Some provisions provide direct aid. Others, not so much.
Joe Biden's spending bill is a Democratic Party wish list masquerading as a public health measure.
The Democrats' COVID bill showers billions of unneeded dollars on state and local governments.
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Somehow, policy makers slid from "never waste a crisis" to "everything is a crisis," a development that is particularly irksome during an actual crisis.
The Senate is preparing to pass a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill that has very little to do with the pandemic, and we all know it. Congress should admit as much.
The rest of us are out of luck.
Congress throws far too much money at special interests.
Moderates and progressives are sparring over how much government assistance should go to upper-middle class families.
The Massachusetts senator is the latest Democrat to use the pandemic to justify a policy she already wanted.
We have to stop governing by emergency.
Biden's proposed stimulus spending might give a modest boost, but in the long run it'll slow the economy.
The president keeps insisting on the urgency of $1.9 trillion in spending. But much of it would be spent on non-urgent policies unrelated to the pandemic.
Never let a good manufactured crisis go to waste
Eliminating earmarks didn't make the government smaller. But reinstating them would facilitate legislative corruption.
Most states managed to avoid much-predicted fiscal crises during the pandemic. Congress wants to shower them with more federal aid anyway.
The plan would redistribute wealth, create distortions, and grow government.
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The president has proposed spending $1.9 trillion on another pandemic relief bill. Moderate GOP senators are countering with a $600 billion plan of their own.
The market's failure to produce an ideal outcome cannot alone justify activist policy, because governments can also fail to produce the ideal.
Biden's proposed $1.9 trillion pandemic "relief" package would unite Americans in forcibly shared economic pain.
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