They benefited from cronyism.

Many policies exist solely because interest groups get politicians to tilt the playing field.

Is there anything that can stop us from becoming Greece?

Management of roads used to be the business of local governments – that is, until the federal government dangled its grant money over the states as leverage.  Now, thanks to this usurpation of authority, we have stories like this: …[T]he Federal Highway Administration is ordering all local governments — from the tiniest towns to the […]