President Biden is proposing to expand federal intervention in many areas that are the responsibility of state and local governments and the private sector.

President Biden’s push to spend another $1.9 trillion on economic relief is surreal given that government budgets are vastly ballooned already.

A bipartisan Congressional group is eager to borrow and spend another $900 billion on a new COVID-19 bill. Yet they appear determined to repeat the most wasteful political stunt of the last “stimulus bill.”

Congress is debating another aid package for the states and private sector. Further aid for the states is a bad idea.

Cato adjunct scholar John Cochrane has written a great piece on “national debt denial,” which I recommend reading in full.

The infrastructure plan recently released by the Biden campaign is a collection of tired ideas that have consistently failed in the past.

Spending and deficits used to be a battleground in federal elections as each party suggested reforms and blamed the other for fiscal irresponsibility.

The transit industry has developed two systems: one for “choice” riders and one for “dependent” riders, “that is to say white and Black,” says urban planner Christof Spieler.

According to frontline politicians, “now” is always the right time, economically speaking, for governments to invest heavily in infrastructure.

Faced with an escalating pandemic in March, the President and most governors did not want to “stimulate” the private economy.