Government Spending

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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

Politics

Building a Wall of Separation Between Art and State

Damon Root | 5.2.2012 4:20 PM

Politics

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

Politics

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

Nick Gillespie | 4.30.2012 10:36 AM

Politics

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

Politics

Should New Student Borrowers Be Charged What Older Ones Are?

Nick Gillespie | 4.27.2012 9:36 AM

Politics

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

Jesse Walker | 4.27.2012 9:32 AM

Politics

Isn't America Already Financially Repressed?

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.26.2012 5:57 PM

Politics

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

Nick Gillespie | 4.26.2012 8:56 AM

Politics

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

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.25.2012 8:49 PM

Politics

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

Shikha Dalmia | 4.25.2012 6:20 PM

Politics

Government Hooker Scandal Spreads to Brazil

Ed Krayewski | 4.25.2012 11:10 AM

Politics

Did TARP Really Happen? Auto Bailouts? The Stimulus?

Nick Gillespie | 4.24.2012 1:26 PM

Politics

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

Politics

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

Politics

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

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.22.2012 11:49 AM

Politics

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

Ed Krayewski | 4.19.2012 4:14 PM

Politics

Obama's Big Government Liberalism

The hypocrisy of hope and change

Sheldon Richman | 4.18.2012 10:30 AM

Politics

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

Ed Krayewski | 4.17.2012 3:18 PM

Politics

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

Politics

Reason Writers on TV: Shikha Dalmia on Unions Bankrupting Detroit

Reason Staff | 4.17.2012 8:26 AM

Politics

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

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.16.2012 10:20 PM

Politics

Third Summer of Recovery Is Already Over

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.16.2012 4:38 PM

Politics

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

Politics

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

Politics

5 New Ways the IRS Is Screwing America

Dumb disclosure laws, xenophobic banking regs, and worse

Matt Welch | 4.16.2012 10:30 AM

Politics

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

Politics

Should Germany Dump the Euro?

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.14.2012 7:45 PM

Politics

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

Politics

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

Politics

"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

Politics

Bad Apples

The myth of the highly skilled public-service elite

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.11.2012 1:30 PM

Politics

'Radical' Republicans

Unfortunately, there is no basis for Obama's claims about the GOP's extremism.

Jacob Sullum | 4.11.2012 7:00 AM

Politics

Reason.tv: Governor Luis Fortuno on How Puerto Rico Avoided Becoming "America's Greece"

Zach Weissmueller | 4.8.2012 12:00 PM

Politics

GOP "Social Darwinism" Quantified! Spend 50 Percent More than Clinton, Pennies Less Than Obama!

Nick Gillespie | 4.6.2012 11:08 AM

Politics

Obama's "social Darwinism" Nonsense

Matt Welch | 4.5.2012 9:56 AM

Politics

Reason Writers at CNN.com: Matt Welch on the GSA Scandal and the Real "Sin City"

Matt Welch | 4.4.2012 8:31 PM