by Andrew F. Quinlan | Aug 18, 2012 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared in The Washington Examiner on August 18, 2012. Imagine you’re a legislator in a country with a bloated budget of almost $4 trillion and a record level of spending that requires massive deficits and could mean job-killing tax increases. Now...
by CF&P | Aug 13, 2012 | News, Press Releases
Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation For Immediate Release Monday, August 13, 2012 202-285-0244 www.freedomandprosperity.org New CF&P “Economics 101” Video Documents Wasteful Legacy of Obamanomics (Washington, D.C., Monday, August 13, 2012) The latest...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 16, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
Every time some class-warfare Democrat or Charlie Brown Republican says we need higher taxes, I think of all the ways the government wastes money and I get angry because the political elite is ripping off the American people. Should we send more money to Washington...
by Dan Mitchell | May 20, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Waste, Keynesian
Most of my work on government stimulus focuses on economic theory and evidence. But every so often it’s a good idea to remind ourselves of the ridiculous ways that government wastes money. Here are some details from a boondoggle in West Virginia. Nobody told Hurricane...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 22, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
The overwhelming fiscal policy challenge for America is entitlement programs, as I explain in this set of videos. To protect America from becoming another Greece, we need personal retirement accounts for Social Security. We need vouchers for Medicare. And we need to...
