20 Percent of Welfare Spending Goes to the Households Taxed To Fund It
It's not robbing Peter to pay Paul. It's more like robbing Peter to pay Peter.
It's not robbing Peter to pay Paul. It's more like robbing Peter to pay Peter.
Rosy fiscal expectations based on eternally low interest rates have proven dangerously wrong.
L.A., Portland, and other cities are spending millions to house homeless people in outdoor "safe sleeping" sites.
Rosy fiscal expectations based on eternally low interest rates have proven dangerously wrong.
The statistic, compiled by watchdog group Good Jobs First, only takes into account "megadeals" involving at least $50 million in subsidies.
Republican senators say the change is "mind-bending and deeply concerning."
A new inspector general report indicates that officials knew that the industrial park had been targeted in the past.
As we step into 2024, it's crucial to adopt a more informed perspective on these dubious claims.
The federal government is borrowing money at a mind-spinning rate, and you can't blame it on the COVID-19 pandemic anymore.
Motorists complain about long lines at charging stations as civil servants queue up in city-owned electric vehicles.
Big government has been ruinous for millions of people. Charities aren't perfect, but they are much more efficient and effective.
California is facing a projected deficit of $68 billion, a larger amount than the entire annual budget of the state of Florida.
At nearly every turn, the infrastructure package opted for policies that limited supplies, hiked prices, added paperwork, and grew government.
Lawmakers can take small steps that are uncontroversial and bipartisan to jumpstart the fiscal stability process.
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The self-described anarcho-capitalist president devalued the peso, halved government ministries, and announced a series of spending cuts.
Section 702 will continue until April, when Congress will have another shot at seriously reforming a program that desperately needs it.
Congressman Thomas Massie discusses his "no" votes on foreign aid, COVID-19 relief, and labeling anti-Zionism antisemitism on episode two of Just Asking Questions.
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"Over the last 20 years, because of temperature rises, we have seen about 116,000 more people die from heat. But 283,000 fewer people die from cold."
Every dollar wasted on political pork, fraud, and poorly considered infrastructure makes the country’s fiscal situation even worse.
More than $2 billion has been distributed, but only two states have even broken ground and most states haven't even submitted proposals.
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Respecting free speech defends individual rights and lets people show us who they are.
A fiscal commission might be a good idea, but it's also the ultimate expression of Congress' irresponsibility.
Charter schools use "fewer dollars to achieve better outcomes," write University of Arkansas researchers.
Servicing debt grows more expensive as the deadline to curb the spending spree gets closer.
Though federal law has required annual financial reports, the Department of Defense simply did not complete them until 2018. It has since failed each year.
Florida's mandatory minimum sentences created a large, elderly prison population. Now the bill is coming due.
A new GAO report details federal prosecutors' attempts to put the horse back in the barn.
The Copenhagen Consensus has long championed a cost-benefit approach for addressing the world's most critical environmental problems.
Some private universities receive more from the government than they net in tuition payments.
Moody's calculates that interest payments on the national debt will consume over a quarter of federal tax revenue by 2033, up from just 9 percent last year.
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Lawmakers from Maryland and Virginia fought over which state should house the new site rather than whether the bureau even needs so many agents.
This week's debate was the first signal that the party's next presidential nominee might actually understand the entitlement crisis.
In the last 50 years, when the budget process has been in place, Congress has managed only four times to pass a budget on time.
"The United States has about 20 years for corrective action after which no amount of future tax increases or spending cuts could avoid the government defaulting on its debt."
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The Democrat-controlled Senate meanwhile is proposing to expand the program.
Amtrak has historically received $2 billion in federal subsidies each year. Under Republicans' "draconian" cuts, they'd receive over $5 billion next year.
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The federal budgeting process was broken long before Matt Gaetz and Kevin McCarthy's recent spat.
Years ago, when interest rates were low, calls for the federal government to exercise fiscal restraint were dismissed. That was unwise.
Entitlement reform has long been considered a third rail in American politics, but that perspective might be changing.
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Congress is being asked to borrow more money to fund broadband access and other pet projects. Only about $9 billion would be spent on natural disaster recovery efforts.