Government Spending

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Question for Scott Walker Recall Fans: How Much Higher Should Wisconsin's Taxes Be?

Nick Gillespie | 5.10.2012 9:53 AM

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Postal Service Scales Back Scaleback: Will Close Nothing, Nowhere

Scott Shackford | 5.9.2012 1:55 PM

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Trainspotters: Deriving Numbers by Counting "Nonsensical," "Intellectually Dishonest"

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.8.2012 7:39 PM

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Scott Walker Is No More Anti-Union than FDR

The recall battle against Walker speaks volumes about the misguided priorities of modern-day progressives

Shikha Dalmia | 5.8.2012 7:00 AM

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Losing Arguments

Are free market ideas beating a retreat?

Matt Welch | 5.7.2012 12:00 PM

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Austerity Lives on in Our Minds and Hearts…

Brian Doherty | 5.7.2012 11:38 AM

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Is Austerity - or Decades of Awful Governance - Responsible for Greek Suicides?

Nick Gillespie | 5.7.2012 11:29 AM

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How Big Government Makes Life Worse

Another day, another story of government waste, fraud, or abuse.

Steven Greenhut | 5.4.2012 12:00 PM

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54 Percent Expect New Tax Revenue to Increase Spending, Not Close Deficit

Emily Ekins | 5.3.2012 11:21 AM

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54 Percent Expect New Tax Revenue to Increase Spending, Not Close Deficit

Emily Ekins | 5.3.2012 11:19 AM

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Building a Wall of Separation Between Art and State

Damon Root | 5.2.2012 4:20 PM

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Stephen King: Tax Me More or I'll Keep Writing About Rich People Who "Douse Their Dicks in Lighter Fluid" at The Daily Beast!

Nick Gillespie | 5.1.2012 11:34 AM

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Updated (4.30pm)!: Feds, Dems Lead Way in Creating More Student Loan Defaults Via Paperwork Screwups

Nick Gillespie | 4.30.2012 10:36 AM

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How Big Government Is Killing California

When you've lost the entrepreneurs, free-spirits, and dreamers, you've lost the Golden State.

Steven Greenhut | 4.27.2012 1:30 PM

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Should New Student Borrowers Be Charged What Older Ones Are?

Nick Gillespie | 4.27.2012 9:36 AM

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Desks for Classrooms Can Wait—Get Some Custom-Made Furniture In This Suite, Stat!

Jesse Walker | 4.27.2012 9:32 AM

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Isn't America Already Financially Repressed?

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.26.2012 5:57 PM

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Postal Service Could Cut Saturday Delivery in Two to Three Years, No Guarantees (Like Priority Mail)…

Nick Gillespie | 4.26.2012 8:56 AM

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Hysterity! Global Panic about "Austere" 9 Percent Spending Hike

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.25.2012 8:49 PM

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Detroit's Leaders Borrow a Page From Government Motors and Chrysler

Shikha Dalmia | 4.25.2012 6:20 PM

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Government Hooker Scandal Spreads to Brazil

Ed Krayewski | 4.25.2012 11:10 AM

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Did TARP Really Happen? Auto Bailouts? The Stimulus?

Nick Gillespie | 4.24.2012 1:26 PM

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NJ Gov. Chris Christie Won't Beg NBA Nets to Stay But Happy to Shower Corporate Welfare on Others

Nick Gillespie | 4.24.2012 8:56 AM

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Sen. Kent Conrad, Senate Dems Punt on Producing Budget Because GOP is Obstructionist, Needs Document to Vote On

Nick Gillespie | 4.23.2012 10:18 AM

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Goodbye, Million-Dollar Starter Home. Hello, Half-Million-Dollar Teardown

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.22.2012 11:49 AM

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Photos and a Lawsuit in the Secret Service's Hooker Scandal

Ed Krayewski | 4.19.2012 4:14 PM

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Obama's Big Government Liberalism

The hypocrisy of hope and change

Sheldon Richman | 4.18.2012 10:30 AM

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Space Shuttle Sent to Museum, SpaceX Launch Set For April 30

Ed Krayewski | 4.17.2012 3:18 PM

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Reason Writers on Cable TV: Matt Welch Talks Mitt Romney and Spending on MSNBC and Fox Business Network

Matt Welch | 4.17.2012 11:34 AM

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Reason Writers on TV: Shikha Dalmia on Unions Bankrupting Detroit

Reason Staff | 4.17.2012 8:26 AM

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Nothing Left to Cut! California Spends $205,000 to Move $15 Shrub.

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.16.2012 10:20 PM

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Third Summer of Recovery Is Already Over

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.16.2012 4:38 PM

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Barney Frank: Even Hayek Agrees With Me! (That Only Increasing Federal Spending by 35 Percent Over A Decade Means the State Is "Just Doing Nothing")

Brian Doherty | 4.16.2012 3:33 PM

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Taxation, American Style

The U.S. tax code is more progressive and European than you think.

Veronique de Rugy | 4.16.2012 12:00 PM

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5 New Ways the IRS Is Screwing America

Dumb disclosure laws, xenophobic banking regs, and worse

Matt Welch | 4.16.2012 10:30 AM

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New Video Reveals Bankruptcy of California High-Speed Rail

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.16.2012 7:00 AM

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Secret Service Agents Should be Allowed to Rent Hookers

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.15.2012 10:52 AM

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Should Germany Dump the Euro?

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.14.2012 7:45 PM

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California's Public Transportation Sinkhole

Thanks to labor unions and big-government activists, transportation has become another form of social engineering.

Steven Greenhut | 4.13.2012 12:00 PM

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No Pilot, No Problem

The future of military aviation is unmanned. The sooner it comes, the better.

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.12.2012 1:30 PM

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"The New Debate in the Republican Party Needs to be Between Conservatives and Libertarians"

Sen. Jim DeMint talks about the looming fiscal crisis and the future of the GOP.

Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch | 4.12.2012 10:30 AM

Politics

GSA Scandal Reflux: Obama Admin Blames Bush or, More Proof That Frat-Boy-Style Spending is a Bipartisan Problem

Nick Gillespie | 4.12.2012 9:33 AM