Writings by Topic: Government Spending

Title Date
Spending, Not Tax Cuts, Drives Federal Budget Deficits (2 comments) February 14, 2024
The Gold-PCE Divergence December 22, 2023
How Government Grows October 20, 2023
An Aid Package for a Four-Front War October 18, 2023
Review: Life After Capitalism: The Meaning of Wealth, the Future of the Economy, and the Time Theory of Money
by George Gilder
June 4, 2023
Buffett Berkshire Hathaway Annual Letter for 2022 (1 comment) February 26, 2023
New York Cannabis Subsidy November 13, 2022
Missile Defense Biden Scorned Would Sure Be Useful Now April 26, 2022
Ukraine Aid March 20, 2022
Price Controls (1 comment) January 30, 2022
Solar Stimulus Risks Repeat of Failures (1 comment) November 19, 2021
Did Anyone Miss the Transportation Secretary? October 20, 2021
Mankiw on Biden's Spending Blowout (1 comment) September 17, 2021
Highway Exit Renumbering June 13, 2021
Government Pays Parents to Keep Children Home From School April 15, 2021
Jamie Dimon 2020 JP Morgan Chase Letter (1 comment) April 11, 2021
Expanded, Refundable Child Tax Credit March 17, 2021
Get Ready For the Biden Baby Boom (1 comment) March 11, 2021
Rattner on the Inflation Threat and the Waste in the Stimulus Bill March 7, 2021
Biden's Borrowing Binge February 2, 2021
Welfare for Journalists (5 comments) December 22, 2020
Back To Work November 27, 2018
Juxtaposition of the Day (1 comment) June 22, 2018
California Police Pay May 8, 2018
A Thought For Presidents' Day (1 comment) February 19, 2018
Guess Who Is Driving $80,000 Vehicles? February 16, 2018
Trump Proposes Demolishing FBI Headquarters (93 comments) February 12, 2018
Annotated Trump State of the Union February 1, 2018
NPR Leers at Gisele Bundchen (3 comments) January 14, 2018
Swiss Banker Acquitted January 9, 2018
Richest Counties (3 comments) December 8, 2017
Travels With Lizbeth (1 comment) November 3, 2017
Newseum (2 comments) October 23, 2017
America's Decline, in Two Photos (1 comment) September 20, 2017
Virtually Every Economist August 3, 2017
Canadian Steps July 20, 2017
Access To Obama White House Paid Off For Corporate Executives May 1, 2017
The Problem With Block Grants (1 comment) January 24, 2017
Jamie Dimon Interview December 22, 2016
Pentagon Waste December 6, 2016
Allison at Treasury? November 28, 2016
Biden Takes Taxpayers For a Ride With Amtrak Subsidy (1 comment) September 13, 2016
On Roads, Clinton and Trump May Both Be Wrong (3 comments) August 21, 2016
Birth Control Leads to More Births, Economists Find (2 comments) June 14, 2016
Anti-Israel Billboard (2 comments) March 22, 2016
Behind the BPS Walkout (1 comment) March 7, 2016
Epstein on Gordon (1 comment) March 1, 2016
Lawyers for Homeless Panhandlers Rack Up $1.5 million in Fees (3 comments) January 12, 2016
America's Most Wasted January 7, 2016
Taxpayers Pay for Peanuts (1 comment) November 24, 2015
Government Inefficiency (3 comments) November 9, 2015
Paid Patriotism (3 comments) November 5, 2015
Grover Norquist on Spending and Taxes October 21, 2015
Bay Bridge Cost Overrun (2 comments) October 14, 2015
Bush At Bedford October 1, 2015
The Federal Marriage Penalty September 8, 2015
Slavery and the Welfare State (2 comments) September 6, 2015
AEI's Strain on the BLS Budget (2 comments) August 14, 2015
HBO and PBS (1 comment) August 14, 2015
Government Waste July 15, 2015
More Perverse Incentives (2 comments) June 23, 2015
Perverse Incentives (1 comment) June 23, 2015
Federal Funds for Beachfront Vacation Home (1 comment) June 3, 2015
Five Think Tanks on the National Debt Problem (1 comment) May 28, 2015
The Feds Versus Buses (1 comment) May 26, 2015
Disinherited May 26, 2015
Sell Amtrak to Make It Safer (1 comment) May 19, 2015
Wright Brothers Versus Government May 4, 2015
ObamaCare and Organogenesis April 23, 2015
Penn Professor Backs 90 Percent Tax Rate (2 comments) April 14, 2015
The Real One Percent March 31, 2015
Government Email (4 comments) March 4, 2015
The Government's $3.2 Trillion Loan Portfolio (1 comment) January 5, 2015
Building Big in Boston January 5, 2015
The House of Repeal (2 comments) December 23, 2014
The CIA's Tax-Exempt Psychologists December 11, 2014
More Subsidized Failure (1 comment) November 25, 2014
Obama, AEI Push Infrastructure (1 comment) November 6, 2014
The Case Against Increased Infrastructure Spending November 3, 2014
Why Dot-Com Works Better Than Dot-Gov (3 comments) October 15, 2014
Secret Service Budget (2 comments) October 1, 2014
Medicare Wheelchairs (1 comment) August 19, 2014
Governor Patrick Office Renovation August 7, 2014
Mexican Embassy Cost (1 comment) June 23, 2014
Privatize the VA June 17, 2014
Food Stamp Fraud June 12, 2014
Homeland Security Headquarters May 21, 2014
Mass. Welfare Money Spent in Florida May 8, 2014
Jamie Dimon's Annual Letter April 9, 2014
Washington's War on Youth (1 comment) April 8, 2014
Ryan Budget Q and A April 2, 2014
Paul Ryan's Budget April 1, 2014
Paper and Filing Cabinets (2 comments) March 24, 2014
Bill Gates on Welfare, Energy, and God (3 comments) March 18, 2014
Spending on Empty Federal Buildings March 13, 2014
CFPB's $23 Million Temporary Lease March 7, 2014
Nobel Laureate Fama on Politicians March 6, 2014
Martin Feldstein on the Retirement Age March 4, 2014
Ladder Versus Safety Net (1 comment) February 10, 2014
Government-Subsidized Interstate Moves February 4, 2014
Heat and Eat (1 comment) February 3, 2014
Earmarks Never Die January 16, 2014
Bloomberg on the SEC Budget January 15, 2014
Catfish Inspections January 10, 2014
What Really Fuels Inequality (1 comment) January 8, 2014
Congressional Research Service on Taxes January 8, 2014
Bloomberg's Dasani Defense December 18, 2013
Coburn's Wastebook (1 comment) December 18, 2013
Breakfast and Lunch in Dallas (1 comment) December 4, 2013
NPR's Cartoons (1 comment) November 4, 2013
Walmart and Food Stamps October 31, 2013
Sugar Price Supports (3 comments) October 31, 2013
Shutdown's Upside October 8, 2013
Use It Or Lose It Season (1 comment) October 2, 2013
The CFPB's Palace September 30, 2013
Spend It Or Lose It (1 comment) September 10, 2013
Farm Apprentices Learn Government Grant-Writing September 2, 2013
Vedder on the Federal College Aid Explosion August 23, 2013
The Greek Yogurt Lobby (1 comment) July 12, 2013
The Sequester Scare July 8, 2013
Richard Epstein and Ruth Messinger June 25, 2013
Armory Gives Conflicting Information on Funding of Snow White Show (1 comment) June 20, 2013
AEI Versus the Flat Tax (3 comments) May 28, 2013
Disability Nation (6 comments) May 17, 2013
The Plausibility Plague May 6, 2013
Review: Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right: What American Can Learn From the Strange Genius of Texas
by Erica Grieder
May 3, 2013
Stanley Fischer on Israel's Growth (1 comment) May 2, 2013
Buffett's Buses (1 comment) April 29, 2013
Privately Funded Medical Research Breakthrough (2 comments) April 11, 2013
Biden's Hotel Bill (1 comment) March 22, 2013
Montauk Highway March 18, 2013
Cliff Asness on Compromise (5 comments) March 6, 2013
Crimson Economics (1 comment) March 5, 2013
Keith Hennessey on the Politics of the Sequester March 5, 2013
Druckenmiller on the Sequester (3 comments) March 1, 2013
Krauthammer on the Sequester (1 comment) March 1, 2013
Sequester Versus Tax Increase Chart (2 comments) February 26, 2013
An Annotated State of the Union (1 comment) February 13, 2013
George Will on a Balanced Budget Amendment (1 comment) February 7, 2013
The President's Sequester Remarks February 6, 2013
Avoiding The Entitlement Monsters (1 comment) February 5, 2013
The Downside of Infrastructure Investment February 1, 2013
Jindal's Speech (3 comments) January 27, 2013
Rubio on the Debt Ceiling January 15, 2013
Bloomberg on Disability January 8, 2013
McConnell's Marker (2 comments) January 3, 2013
Eliminate the Commerce Secretary (1 comment) January 2, 2013
A Positive Sign From Washington December 31, 2012
John Cochrane on the Fiscal Cliff (2 comments) December 25, 2012
Cleveland Clinic CEO Interview December 19, 2012
Gordon Gee's Pay (6 comments) December 18, 2012
The Government Publicist Boom December 17, 2012
Spending Is The Problem Graph (1 comment) December 14, 2012
Sports Welfare December 12, 2012
Ed Glaeser on Welfare Reform (1 comment) December 12, 2012
California Public Sector Salaries December 11, 2012
Kristof on Welfare (2 comments) December 9, 2012
Michael Barone on Disability Nation (1 comment) December 3, 2012
The Spending Piece of the Fiscal Cliff November 27, 2012
Romney's 'Gifts' Explanation (6 comments) November 20, 2012
Disaster Subsidy (2 comments) November 19, 2012
USA Today on Flood Insurance (2 comments) November 14, 2012
Federal Disasters (1 comment) October 30, 2012
Obama, Ryan Extended Federal Flood Insurance Subsidy (2 comments) October 29, 2012
Local Government Hiring (1 comment) October 5, 2012
Subsidized Cellphone Program (3 comments) September 28, 2012
'Not a Tax Cut' (3 comments) September 27, 2012
Second Breakfast at Taxpayer Expense September 27, 2012
Ross Douthat on the Imperial Capital (2 comments) September 23, 2012
Imperial Capital September 20, 2012
New York Food Stamp Outreach (2 comments) September 13, 2012
Free School Breakfast for Everyone (3 comments) September 10, 2012
George Will on Soda (2 comments) August 23, 2012
Romney Versus the National Endowment for the Humanities (1 comment) August 20, 2012
Romney Takes the Highway (2 comments) August 15, 2012
Clive Crook on Medicare (1 comment) August 15, 2012
Stockman on Neoconservative Imperialism (2 comments) August 14, 2012
Obama Built That (1 comment) August 10, 2012
Welfare Voter Registration August 9, 2012
Public Housing Parking Lot August 8, 2012
Taxing the Rich and the Rest (2 comments) August 7, 2012
Amtrak Loses Money on Food (3 comments) August 3, 2012
Government Spending as Percent of GDP July 31, 2012
Elizabeth Warren's China Ad (1 comment) July 31, 2012
Toomey on Taxes and Entitlements (1 comment) July 25, 2012
Obama's Bogus Budget Cuts (1 comment) July 17, 2012
More On Obama's Stump Speech (1 comment) July 17, 2012
Welfare Cigarettes (2 comments) July 9, 2012
Food Stamp Nation July 5, 2012
Ban The Word 'Trillion' (3 comments) June 26, 2012
Ad Spending and the Health Care Law (1 comment) June 21, 2012
Don't Replace Bryson (2 comments) June 21, 2012
The Postwar Boom (2 comments) June 21, 2012
Teachers, Cops and Firefighters (1 comment) June 12, 2012
Federal Helium Program Rises Again (4 comments) May 18, 2012
Leucadia's Letter (2 comments) April 16, 2012
CIA Student Internships (2 comments) April 11, 2012
Bush Institute 4 Percent Growth Conference (2 comments) April 11, 2012
Review: No They Can't: Why Government Fails — But Individuals Succeed (2 comments)
by John Stossel
April 9, 2012
CBS on Europe March 30, 2012
Feds Pay Fishermen Not To Fish March 2, 2012
Richard Epstein on Safety Nets (1 comment) February 29, 2012
Fisker, A123 Under Stress February 13, 2012
Growth Is Slower as Government Gets Bigger (1 comment) February 9, 2012
Richard Epstein on Yale February 7, 2012
Superbowl Stadium Subsidies February 5, 2012
USA Today on Disabled America February 3, 2012
Government Spending and the Economy January 30, 2012
Conservative Obama Appears January 23, 2012
Brooks' Latest (3 comments) January 6, 2012
China's Rail December 29, 2011
David Brooks on Spending and Results (1 comment) December 27, 2011
Bus Boom (1 comment) December 26, 2011
The Mega-Omni December 16, 2011
Welfare Crack December 14, 2011
Schumer's History December 14, 2011
Vanguard's McNabb on the Debt (1 comment) November 25, 2011
So Long, Supercommittee (1 comment) November 21, 2011
Two From Paul Ryan (2 comments) November 18, 2011
Sequester Gains Support on Right November 18, 2011
Richard Epstein on Tobacco November 15, 2011
School Dinners (1 comment) November 15, 2011
Bill Clinton USA Today Interview November 7, 2011
Kaus on Government Growth October 19, 2011
Cost-Free Job-Creating Idea No. 22 October 12, 2011
Republicans and Solyndra October 1, 2011
Quote of the Day September 26, 2011
Scott Walker and Mitch Daniels on Public Employee Unions (1 comment) September 23, 2011
Imperial Capital September 22, 2011
Gallup Poll on Wasted Spending (1 comment) September 21, 2011
Gensler's Speechwriter (2 comments) September 21, 2011
Over-Federalizing Disasters (3 comments) August 29, 2011
John Steele Gordon on the Debt August 28, 2011
The Broken Windows Fallacy (4 comments) August 28, 2011
Barone on Buses (1 comment) August 24, 2011
More on Buffett and Taxes (1 comment) August 16, 2011
Imperial Capital (1 comment) August 16, 2011
40 School Lunch Experts August 15, 2011
Israel's Wealth Gap (2 comments) August 12, 2011
Sowell Reconsiders August 10, 2011
Government's Hiring (1 comment) August 9, 2011
Mark Twain House August 9, 2011
The New Yorker's Assumptions (2 comments) August 8, 2011
Levitt on the SEC Budget August 8, 2011
One More on the Debt Deal (1 comment) August 3, 2011
Grassley on the Debt Compromise August 2, 2011
Remarkable, Indeed (1 comment) August 2, 2011
Corzine To Washington? August 2, 2011
WSJ Versus Talk Radio (4 comments) August 1, 2011
The Big Picture (2 comments) July 29, 2011
Jonah Goldberg on Reagan July 29, 2011
Ryan on the Budget July 27, 2011
Profiles in Courage July 26, 2011
Five Facts About the Debt July 25, 2011
Barone on the Budget July 24, 2011
Norquist in the NYT July 22, 2011
Budgets and Brothers (4 comments) July 18, 2011
Obama's Press Conference (3 comments) July 15, 2011
Taylor's Budget Two-Step July 14, 2011
Obama and the Budget July 14, 2011
Catholicism and the Budget Battle (1 comment) July 11, 2011
Obama's Press Conference (2 comments) July 11, 2011
Jonathan Macey on the SEC July 10, 2011
Obama's Agenda (2 comments) July 8, 2011
Good News on Employment (1 comment) July 8, 2011
Review: The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong With America (1 comment)
by Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch
July 3, 2011
USA Today on the Imperial Capital June 21, 2011
California Municipal Bonds at Work (1 comment) June 15, 2011
Kemp on Cuts and Growth June 1, 2011
Squandering Medicare's Money (3 comments) May 26, 2011
Boskin on Government and Growth (3 comments) May 25, 2011
Pawlenty on Means-Testing Social Security (5 comments) May 25, 2011
Budgets and Generosity May 23, 2011
Clifford Asness on 1967 May 20, 2011
Robert Rubin on the Debt Ceiling May 18, 2011
Funding the IMF (1 comment) May 16, 2011
Bloomberg Spins Its Own Poll May 13, 2011
You Cut May 11, 2011
Lifestyles of Government Lifeguards (1 comment) May 11, 2011
Josh Barro on the Debt Limit (1 comment) May 11, 2011
A Tax on Political Power May 10, 2011
Shlaes on the Budget May 10, 2011
Norquist on Now or Later May 6, 2011
Caroline Baum on the Behemoth May 5, 2011
USA Today on Government Pay (2 comments) May 3, 2011
Shlaes on a New Gramm-Rudman May 3, 2011
USA Today on Federal Income Dependence (1 comment) April 26, 2011
The New Civility (2 comments) April 18, 2011
Debt Limit Vote April 18, 2011
Comment of the Day (1 comment) April 17, 2011
Photos of the Day (2 comments) April 15, 2011
Ryan Responds (1 comment) April 15, 2011
Obama's Budget Speech (2 comments) April 13, 2011
Sowell on Spending (1 comment) April 12, 2011
Spending Versus Cutting April 10, 2011
Singer on a Shutdown April 8, 2011
Nonessential Personnel (1 comment) April 7, 2011
Paul Ryan YouTube April 5, 2011
Paul Ryan's Plan (1 comment) April 4, 2011
New York Times on the Budget (2 comments) April 1, 2011
Beyond the Welfare State (1 comment) March 30, 2011
Schumer and 'Extreme' (2 comments) March 30, 2011
How Government Grows (1 comment) March 25, 2011