Do the Natcons Get Anything Right?
Plus: A listener asks if the Roundtable has given the arguments of those opposed to low-skilled immigration a fair hearing.
Plus: A listener asks if the Roundtable has given the arguments of those opposed to low-skilled immigration a fair hearing.
The debt ceiling isn’t the issue; excessive federal spending is the real problem.
The rail lines servicing Washington, D.C.'s Union Station are carrying as little as a quarter of their pre-pandemic ridership. Officials still want to triple the station's capacity.
The Pentagon’s “accounting error” will allow President Joe Biden to send an extra $3 billion in military aid to Ukraine without congressional approval. Was this deliberate?
The ideology champions the same tired policies that big government types predictably propose whenever they see something they don't like.
Plus: A listener question concerning the key to a libertarian future—should we reshape current systems or rely upon technological exits like bitcoin and encryption?
After getting lucky for his first few years in office, Newsom now faces his first major budgetary crisis. How he responds will show a lot about his leadership skills.
The lawsuit claims that the pause has cost taxpayers "$160 billion and counting."
The longer we wait to address our debt, the more painful it will be.
Last year, Biden was trying to take credit for "the largest drop ever" in the federal budget deficit. Now, the deficit is almost three times as large as it was a year ago.
Social Security will become insolvent in the early 2030s if Congress does nothing.
Plus: Kansas voting restrictions struck down, the legacy of the "vast wasteland" speech, and more…
We can't grow our way out of its ruinous economic impact. The only way forward is to cut spending.
Unlike the Education Department's estimates, a CBO analysis considers how the new rules will encourage more students to take out loans they won't be able to pay back.
It's time for President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to strike a deal that will avoid a default and cut spending.
Plus: A listener question scrutinizing current attitudes toward executive power
The transit systems we're supposed to hop aboard ultimately operate as jobs programs for government workers.
In 2019, discretionary spending was $1.338 trillion—or some $320 billion less than what Republicans want that side of the budget to be.
The most important part of the Limit, Grow, Save Act is the limits.
The main driver behind the reduction is inflation—inflation that politicians created with their irresponsible spending.
A new report from Reason Foundation shows that in 2020, highway quality improved while spending stayed flat. Inflation is now wrecking that progress.
A return to so-called normal order wouldn't fix all of Washington's many problems, but it would be a step in the right direction.
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An impasse created by years of politicized, myopic decision making in Washington is pushing the federal government ever closer to a dangerous cliff.
Contra the famous quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, there's nothing particularly civilized about the way our governments spend the money we provide.
Plus: What the editors hate most about the IRS and tax day
How to—and how not to—help solve the college debt problem.
NPR is no Xinhua, but Elon Musk is correct that it doesn't need government subsidies.
Industrial policy is never as simple as it seems.
The agency’s new report tells us practically nothing of significance.
In 10 years, the programs' funds will be insolvent. Over the next 30 years, they will run a $116 trillion shortfall.
The ballooning of government has 'crowded out’ institutions of civil society, says AEI’s Howard Husock.
New data from the program's trustees show that insolvency will hit a year sooner than previously expected, giving policy makers just a decade before automatic benefit cuts occur.
Excessive government interference in the market hurts consumers and thwarts policy goals. It also gets in the way of the government itself.
Vernon Smith weighs in on Biden's budget, how government causes inflation, and why bailing out Silicon Valley Bank was a bad idea.
The massive piece of legislation embodies all that is wrong with American lawmaking.
As the government sets its sights on migrants crossing the border, native-born Americans have also come under its watchful eye.
The CFPB funding scheme is constitutional, the 2nd Circuit says.
If Republicans refuse to gore their three sacred cows, a new CBO report shows that balancing the budget is literally impossible.
Congress' end-of-year rush to fund the federal government has become the norm.
The higher taxes on small businesses and entrepreneurs could slow growth. Less opportunity means more tribalism and division.
In countries that privatized, there are fewer delays and costs are lower. But labor unions and the private plane lobby stand in the way.
Despite his declared commitment to freedom and fiscal conservatism, DeSantis' immigration policies represent a dramatic expansion of government power and spending.
Handouts for tourist-trap museums will be part of the federal funding battleground in the next two years.
Big corporations and entire industries constantly use their connections in Congress to get favors, no matter which party is in power.
Lawmakers should proactively retake the power of the purse from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, regardless of how the Supreme Court rules.
But it's exactly what they need to start talking about.
Politicians say they want to subsidize various industries, but they sabotage themselves by weighing the policies down with rules that have nothing to do with the plans.