Paul’s report on government waste in 2021
It’s an open secret that official Washington wastes billions of tax dollars every year…and yet still has the gall to say that such waste is largely fiction. Kentucky Sen. Rand…
Paycheck Protection Program was a costly dud
Among the many federal efforts to prop-up the economy in the wake of government-mandated business closures was the Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP. Roughly $800 billion was shoveled into PPP,…
The progressive bluff on a resurrected BBB
House Democrats, or at those progressives form the safest of House districts, are intent on reanimating the corpse of Build Back Better. While these would-be Dr. Frankenstein’s know they don’t…
There are plenty of good reasons to oppose semiconductor subsidies
Politicians of both major political parties and at all levels of government can usually agree on one thing: using tax dollars to subsidize select private companies is a good thing….
Build Back Better was even more costly thanks to the gimmicks
The Biden administration’s Hail Mary pass – otherwise known as the Build Back Better Act – dropped like a load of bricks over the weekend, when Sen. Joe Manchin announced…
The trillion dollar infrastructure boondoggle will cost much more, and deliver even less
Democrats hoping to avoid a wipeout in the 2022 elections are busy touting the many supposed benefits and virtues of their trillion-dollar infrastructure bill. But as anyone who has followed…
Decentralize DC’s bureaucracy
The idea of moving pieces of the federal bureaucracy outside the beltway has long been a favorite topic of those who want to bring government agencies closer – in geography…
How to waste hundreds of billions of dollars, the Biden way
The president is busy touring the country trying to sell the public on the recently-approved infrastructure bill…the measure he hopes will blunt what could be a GOP wave in the…
The opioid windfall for state governments
State governments are set to reap billions of dollars from a settlement with opioid manufacturers state lawyers alleged were behind a nationwide epidemic of pain med abuse. All that money,…
Giving the Pentagon billions of additional dollars it never requested
Congress can’t help itself when it comes to spending, and that’s long been true of spending on the Department of Defense. The DoD was initially scheduled for a very modest…