Downsizing Blog
Navy Corruption Scandal
The Washington Post has published another report on the Glenn Defense Navy scandal.
Cutting Energy Subsidies
The incoming Secretary of Energy, Rick Perry, has talked in the past about abolishing the department that he will be running.
Corporate Welfare and Corruption
President-elect Donald Trump says that he will cut wasteful spending and “drain the swamp” in Washington.
Pentagon Bureaucratic Waste: $125 Billion
The Washington Post has a blockbuster story today documenting vast overhead costs in the Department of Defense (DoD).
Heritage Foundation Infrastructure Proposals
In a new report for the Heritage Foundation, Michael Sargent summarizes what we need on infrastructure from the incoming Trump administration.
Trump’s $10 Trillion Infrastructure Plan
President-elect Donald Trump has promised large increases in infrastructure investment.
Taxpayers Right-to-Know Act
Cato’s forum on Capitol Hill yesterday featured Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma. The senator mainly talked about his Federal Fumbles report, but he also mentioned his proposed “Taxpayers Right-to-Know Act.”
Fumbling Federal Finances
The federal government has suffered from waste, fraud, and abuse in its spending programs for decades—actually, centuries.
Public Infrastructure: Costs and Benefits
Economic policy is subject to fads and fashions. The most recent economic-policy fad is public infrastructure. Its advocates include progressives on the “left” — like President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders — and populists on the “right” — like President-elect Trump. They tell us to take the chains off fiscal austerity and spend — spend a lot — on public works. They allege that this elixir will cure many, if not all, of our economic ills. Let’s take a look at their arguments and evidence.
Trump, Bannon, Jackson, and Infrastructure
On his radio show last night, Mark Levin asked his audience whether they thought President-elect Donald Trump would turn out to be a big-government Richard Nixon or a small-government Ronald Reagan.