President Trump’s new budget for 2019 proposes privatizing federal assets such as airports, air traffic control, and electricity facilities.

It is hard to keep track of all the waste, corruption, and mismanagement propagated by government agencies in recent years, including the DOD, PTO, VA, and others.

Private-sector utilities provide the bulk of electricity generation, transmission, and distribution in the United States. But the federal government also owns a share of the nation’s electricity infrastructure.

The federal government owns 640 million acres of land—mainly in the West—which is 28 percent of land in the United States.

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is a major business enterprise operated by the federal government.

Momentum is building for air traffic control (ATC) reform.

Amtrak’s co-CEO Wick Moorman has announced that the passenger railroad is thinking of offering a new service to compete with the airlines: economy seating that is crammed together as tightly as airline seats.

Congress should privatize federally-owned businesses such as Amtrak, the postal service, and the air traffic control system.

The federal-government-managed National Flood Insurance Program is $25 billion in debt, stokes moral hazard, and entails a regressive wealth transfer that favors coastal areas.

Former U.S. transportation secretary Ray LaHood lobbied for a federal gas tax increase in a Washington Post letter the other day.