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Government Failures

Cost Overruns

Fraud and Abuse

Special-Interest Spending

Overpaid Federal Workers

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Further Reading – Commentaries

  • Stop the Spending Spree
  • Cut the Commerce Department
  • Five Decades of HUD Failure
  • Fiscal Task Force
  • Federal Spending Limit
  • Cutting Spending 10%
  • Six Reasons to Downsize
  • Subsidy Programs Top 2,000
  • Free the Mails
  • Bigger Than Madoff
  • Long Term Costs
  • The Spending Threat
  • Great Right North
  • All Aboard the Gravy Train
  • Keynesian Mistake
  • Federal Spending Pathologies

Further Reading – Books

  • Cato Handbook for Policymakers
  • Downsizing the Federal Government
  • Leviathan on the Right
  • The Republican Revolution

Further Reading – Studies

  • National Academy Report
  • Federal Aid to the States
  • How to Spend $2.8 Trillion
  • Number of Federal Subsidy Programs
  • The Government and the Great Depression

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