Big spenders enable big taxers.

Is there any argument in favor of earmarks?

Bureaucracies waste money.

A grotesque example of government waste and incompetence.

Evidence of positive outcomes from banning earmarks.

Senator Tom Coburn’s 2014 Wastebook is out with a new, grisly collection of boondoggles and pork-barrel spending.

Remember the Spending Quiz from 2010, which asked people to guess whether absurd examples of government waste were true or false? Well, we have a new video on government waste, though bureaucrats and politicians have become so profligate it doesn’t even bother to trick people with fake examples. While very well done, I do have […]

Taxpayers all across America send lots of money to Washington, DC, in part because we’re supposed to believe that redistribution is a legitimate and desirable function of the federal government. But this is a very perverse form of redistribution. All that money going to Washington helps subsidize a network of overpaid bureaucrats, fat-cat lobbyists, corrupt […]

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I agree with George Will that it’s okay to reduce Pentagon spending. After all, the United States accounts for almost one-half of the world’s military outlays, about twice as much as the combined total of possible enemies. But I also agree that national defense is one of the few legitimate functions of the federal government, […]