Tag: Corporate Welfare

There are few things politicians enjoy more, and generates more bipartisan enthusiasm, than committing vast sums of taxpayer money to the construction of new...

Governments big and small, and political parties left and right, are all agreed on one policy issue: giving private companies taxpayer money and other...

The United Auto Workers strike against the Big Three automakers is, at one level, about wages. The union wants a 40 percent hike in...

The federal government’s “Chips and Science Act,” which will throw hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer money at private computer chip manufacturers over...

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy got what he wanted, and desperately needed, on the debt ceiling: An approved plan that he and others in the...

While we’re on the topic of crony capitalism – or, as Frederic Bastiat so devastatingly called it, “legal plunder” – it turns out the...

One of the enduring tropes of political journalism is to criticize the other side for behavior that’s as well-entrenched – if not perfected –...

Many news organizations are struggling to stay afloat, particularly those at the local level. As these outlets reduce staff, or close outright, there’s a...

Back in August, official Washington was patting itself on the back for the bipartisan unity it showed in approving a massive industrial policy bill...

The Buffalo Bills are riding high – deservedly so – and the rest of the NFL is taking note. But behind Josh Allen’s MVP-like...

What happens when the federal government sends tens of billions of dollars of (borrowed) money to states that really don’t need it to fight...

Never underestimate Congress’s ability to revive dead bills, and bad ideas, if enough money is used to revive them. Oh, and political need – that’s...