Government Spending

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A 10-Year Energy Plan?

Techno-optimistic environmentalists still stuck with old-fashioned, top-down thinking.

Ronald Bailey | 2.5.2008 3:00 PM

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Because Congress Doesn't Have Enough To Do, Chapter MMMCCXXXVIII (College Textbook Edition)

Nick Gillespie | 2.1.2008 11:45 AM

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Bush Spent His Credibility

Assessing the president's newfound commitment to fiscal conservatism

Jacob Sullum | 1.30.2008 7:56 AM

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Slightly Fewer Logs, Still Rolling

Jacob Sullum | 1.23.2008 11:38 AM

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From Each According to His Ability…

Hillary Clinton's quest for economic justice

Jacob Sullum | 1.23.2008 6:08 AM

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Get Ready for Some Economic Stimulus…

Nick Gillespie | 1.22.2008 8:01 AM

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Why Jeff Flake is No Flake

Nick Gillespie | 1.10.2008 3:39 PM

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Entitlement Mentality

The bill for all those free retirement benefits is finally coming due.

Jacob Sullum | 12.26.2007 7:24 AM

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Save the (Des Moines) Rainforest!

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 12.20.2007 12:13 PM

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Aliens Stole My PSA Money

Jacob Sullum | 12.18.2007 7:52 PM

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A Fiscal Picture That Calls for Exclamation Points

Jacob Sullum | 12.18.2007 5:19 PM

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Fishy FEMA Follies

Nick Gillespie | 11.29.2007 10:15 AM

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Serving in Congress Means Never Having to Buy Your Own Gifts

Jacob Sullum | 11.13.2007 2:54 PM

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Bush the Budget-Buster Redux

Nick Gillespie | 10.24.2007 8:23 AM

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SCHIP Veto Override Fails

Jacob Sullum | 10.18.2007 2:21 PM

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Let SCHIPs Chart Their Own Course

Why is the federal government paying for children's health insurance?

Jacob Sullum | 10.17.2007 6:40 AM

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Fourth Time's the Charm

Jacob Sullum | 10.3.2007 4:04 PM

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The Manipulation of Human Behavior: Your Tax Dollars at Work

Brian Doherty | 9.6.2007 3:53 PM

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The Myths of Hurricane Katrina: Part One

Myth number one: A lack of federal money

Daniel Rothschild | 8.29.2007 3:00 PM

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Calling All Presidential Candidates: Who Will Stand Up and Be Transparent?

Meet the only three would-be chief execs who will dare to tell you how the government spends your money.

Nick Gillespie | 8.24.2007 11:51 AM

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Honest and Open Thievery

The limits of Congress's ethics reforms

Jacob Sullum | 8.15.2007 6:49 AM

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Stick It In Your Earmark!

Nick Gillespie | 8.10.2007 11:07 AM

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Will Someone Put a Secret Hold on the Abolition of Secret Holds?

Jacob Sullum | 8.2.2007 12:14 PM

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Their Role on the Dole

Jacob Sullum | 7.26.2007 2:12 AM

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Night of the Farming Dead

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 7.24.2007 1:36 PM

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Andre Agassi's Charter School Double Fault

Nick Gillespie | 7.16.2007 10:39 AM

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Divided We Brawl

The virtues of partisan bickering

Jacob Sullum | 7.5.2007 6:31 AM

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And the Federal Budget Will Be 100 Percent of GDP

Jacob Sullum | 6.22.2007 4:44 PM

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Partisanship Rules

Jacob Sullum | 6.21.2007 11:42 AM

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Don Young's Obscene Gesture

Jacob Sullum | 6.7.2007 10:09 AM

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Federalizing Flight 93

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 5.24.2007 2:59 PM

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Porky in Wackyland

Jesse Walker | 5.24.2007 2:56 PM

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Murtha's Faux Pas

Jacob Sullum | 5.22.2007 3:44 PM

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"Pay-Go" Goes

Brian Doherty | 5.18.2007 3:05 PM

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Border Patrol Finishes in Middle of Pack

Nick Gillespie | 5.17.2007 8:38 AM

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Where Drug Warriors Get Their Intelligence

Jacob Sullum | 5.11.2007 12:05 PM

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Feeding Time

Radley Balko | 5.9.2007 5:57 PM

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Let the Goat Be The Hero

Brian Doherty | 5.9.2007 2:47 PM

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Why Pork Barrel Spending Is Called Such (and Why the Term Is Couched in America's Racist Past)

Nick Gillespie | 4.20.2007 7:15 AM

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Play It Again, Tom

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 4.19.2007 3:04 PM

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Blood and Treasure

Oh you masters of war, you that grow all the fruit...

Jesse Walker | 3.22.2007 1:03 PM

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Watching Sausage Being Made

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 3.21.2007 12:04 PM

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Bush OK with Earmarks?

Brian Doherty | 3.21.2007 10:20 AM

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Heckuva' Job

Radley Balko | 3.13.2007 8:50 AM

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'We all need to pray to the hurricane gods."

Radley Balko | 2.21.2007 10:37 AM

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Least Surprising News of the Day

Radley Balko | 2.12.2007 4:41 PM