Government Spending

Once again, the federal government’s malignant effect on the economy is our top story. Now it’s a debate over whether to raise the debt ceiling.

Just about nothing US infrastructure has anything to do with DC.

Politicians love to spend other people’s money, especially when it enables them to use it to get campaign contributions and election-day votes from those who can keep them in office

The U.S. government will, again, face an official debt limit starting on August 1, 2021, unless Congress once more raises the limit on what Uncle Sam can borrow.

The Congressional Budget Office has recently issued a federal “Budget Outlook Update”

You don’t want government anywhere near any insurance policies you purchase.

There has been much back-and-forthing over who should and shouldn’t get money from the CARES Act.

In its 2021 fiscal budget, the Trump administration has proposed an increase over its request for the Department of Interior in 2020.

As the philosopher Rahm Emanuel once said, "Never let a good crisis go to waste."

At the end of April, Illinois utility regulators issued a call to repeal a pro-consumer federal order, called the Minimum Price Order Rule. Here's what this means.

For decades, the state that has been dominated by one-party that has been laying the foundation for a budget catastrophe.

Policymakers should look at how Australia decentralized its infrastructure management to create a similar system in the United States.

Taxing the rich has seemed to be one of the Band-Aid solutions for California’s budget, but that’s dangerous as seventy percent of the General Fund is already provided by personal taxes on just five percent of the population.

During my last visit to the grocery store, the clerk directed me to the hermetically sealed conveyor belt and, grinning proudly, said, “Welcome to the new normal.”

In Uncle Sam’s 2020 fiscal year that began on October 1, 2019, it is estimated that the federal government will spend around $4.4 trillion, of which about $1 trillion will be with borrowed money to cover the budget deficit of that amount.

In these trying times coping with the Coronavirus, and its huge impact on businesses and employment, the younger generations have been set up to pick up some the costs of the defined benefits that their parents and grandparents voted in for themselves.

The CARES Act is one of the few government bailouts that doesn't set a bad precedent.

Most state governments have accumulated “rainy day” funds (RDF) which they can draw on during unexpected revenue shortfalls.

The Trump Administration recently submitted its proposed fiscal year 2021 budget, which would significantly cut funding for certain climate change-focused programs at several government agencies.

North Carolina Superior Court Judge David Lee ordered the state to formulate a plan to increase spending on K-12 education by an estimated $8 billion.

The Buckeye Institute recommends actions to reduce the negative economic impact of the COVID-19 Epidemic on Ohio's Economy.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a March 2019 lower court decision that blocked Arkansas from implementing a work rule designed to help able-bodied Medicaid enrollees back into the workforce.

Governors, health care providers, and several lawmakers want the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to retract a rule designed to increase transparency in Medicaid spending.

Harrisburg is just one of several U.S. cities that considered water utility privatization in 2019, but other municipalities took the step.