Government Spending

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Ron Paul Roundup: Oklahoma Progress, Budget Plan Hit by Romney, and Women! Women! Women!

Brian Doherty | 5.12.2012 4:55 PM

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Q and A With California Senate Candidate Rick Williams, a "Ron Paul Republican"

Brian Doherty | 5.11.2012 11:44 PM

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Is Austerity to Blame for Europe's Economic Woes? Q&A with Veronique de Rugy

Nick Gillespie and Jim Epstein | 5.11.2012 11:42 AM

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Feds to California: Spend That Money You Don't Have on High-Speed Rail

Scott Shackford | 5.10.2012 8:19 PM

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DOJ Vs. Joe Arpaio, Military Trained for "Total War" Against Islam, Vikings Get Their Cheese: P.M. Links

Scott Shackford | 5.10.2012 4:20 PM

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The Circular Logic of Stimulus Spending

Peter Suderman | 5.10.2012 3:16 PM

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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