For years now, many high-ranking state and local government officials around the United States have been exceptionally generous in promising and providing big pensions to the police, firefighters, and civilian government employees in return for their their political activism and support in their communities. At the same time, they have been counting on getting…
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It’s a list that none of us wanted to see, but thanks to the wasteful spending of the federal government, one that has been dutifully assembled by U.S. Senator James Lankford: Federal Fumbles: 100 Ways the Government Dropped the Ball, Vol. 2. Like its predecessors, U.S. Senator Jeff Flake’s Wastebook (formerly produced by James…
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The United States government has deployed central planning through schemes such as the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937. Authorized by Congress during the New Deal, the Act set up cooperative boards and conscripted growers into reserve set-asides. As we noted, in recent years the government targeted raisins in California. In 2003, Fresno raisin…
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