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Federal Budget Policy

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"Will Federal Health Legislation Cause the Deficit to Soar?," by Daniel J. Mitchell, Tax & Budget Bulletin no. 58, November 2009. (PDF, 62Kb., 2 pp)

"Tax-Spend or Fiscal Illusion?," by Andrew T. Young, Cato Journal, vol. 29 no. 3, Fall 2009.

"Starve the Beast: A Further Examination," by Michael J. New, Cato Journal, vol. 29 no. 3, Fall 2009.

"Stop the War, Stop the Spending," by David Boaz, Cato Policy Report, July/August 2009.

"Will Obama Raise Middle-Class Taxes to Fund Health Care?," by Michael D. Tanner and Chris Edwards, Tax & Budget Bulletin no. 57, June 2009. (PDF, 38kb., 2 pp)

"Number of Federal Subsidy Programs Tops 1,800," by Chris Edwards, Tax & Budget Bulletin no. 56, April 2009. (PDF, 60kb., 2 pp)

"Obama's Budget Builds on Bush Precedents," by Chris Edwards, Tax & Budget Bulletin no. 55, March 2009. (PDF, 59kb., 2 pp)

"The Troubling Return of Keynesianism," by Ike Brannon and Chris Edwards, Tax & Budget Bulletin no. 52, January 2009. (PDF, 62kb., 2pp.)

"Number of Federal Subsidy Programs Is Soaring," by Chris Edwards, Tax & Budget Bulletin no. 41, November 2006. (PDF, 52kb., 2pp.)

"How to Spend $2.8 Trillion," by Chris Edwards, Tax & Budget Bulletin no. 39, August 2006. (PDF, 49kb., 2pp.)

"Empowering Citizens to Monitor Federal Spending," by Chris Edwards, Tax & Budget Bulletin no. 38, July 2006. (PDF, 52kb., 2pp.)

"Federal Pay Outpaces Private-Sector Pay," by Chris Edwards, Tax & Budget Bulletin no. 35, May 2006. (PDF, 76kb., 2 pp)

"Capping Federal Spending," by Chris Edwards, Tax & Budget Bulletin no. 32, March 2006. (PDF, 50kb., 2 pp)

"Improving on the President's 2007 Budget," by Chris Edwards, Tax & Budget Bulletin no. 31, February 2006. (PDF, 49kb., 2 pp)

"Privatize the Army Corps of Engineers," by Chris Edwards, Tax & Budget Bulletin no. 27, October 2005. (PDF, 53kb., 2 pp)

"Bush Beats Johnson: Comparing the Presidents," by Stephen Slivinski, Tax & Budget Bulletin no. 26, October 2005. (PDF, 43kb., 2 pp)

"Pork: A Microcosm of the Overspending Problem," by Chris Edwards, Tax & Budget Bulletin no. 24, August 2005. (PDF, 46kb., 2 pp)

"Combining Tax Reform and Health Care Reform With Large HSAs," by Michael F. Cannon, Tax and Budget Bulletin no. 23, May, 2005.

"Toward the Ownership Society," by Edward H. Crane, Cato Policy Report, November/December 2004.

"Federal Aid to the States Ripe for Cuts," by Chris Edwards, Tax & Budget Bulletin no. 20, May 2004. (PDF, 2 pgs, 46 Kb)

"'Starve the Beast' Does Not Work," by William A. Niskanen, Cato Policy Report, March/April 2004.

"Government Schemes Cost More Than Promised," by Chris Edwards, Tax & Budget Bulletin no. 17, September 2003. (PDF, 2 pgs, 78 Kb)

"On Spending, Bush Is No Reagan," by Veronique de Rugy and Tad DeHaven, Tax & Budget Bulletin no. 16, August 2003. (PDF, 2 pgs, 130 Kb)

"The Federal Government in 2040," by Chris Edwards, Tax & Budget Bulletin no. 15, June 2003. (PDF, 2 pgs, 131 Kb)

"High Taxes and High Budget Deficits: The Hoover-Roosevelt Tax Increases of the 1930s," by Veronique de Rugy, Tax & Budget Bulletin no. 14, March 2003. (PDF, 2 pgs, 130 Kb)

"Turning Roth IRAs into Universal Savings Accounts," by Chris Edwards and Ernest Christian, Tax & Budget Bulletin no. 11, November 2002. (PDF, 2 pgs, 141 Kb)

"Federal Government Should Increase Firing Rate," by Chris Edwards and Tad DeHaven, Tax & Budget Bulletin no. 10, November 2002. (PDF, 2 pgs, 156 Kb)

"Runaway Corporations: Political Band-Aids vs. Long-Term Solutions," by Veronique de Rugy, Tax & Budget Bulletin no. 9, July 2002. (PDF, 2 pgs, 56 Kb)

"Controlling Defense Costs," by Chris Edwards, Tax & Budget Bulletin no. 8, May 2002. (PDF, 2 pgs, 59 Kb)

"Corporate Welfare Update," by Chris Edwards and Tad DeHaven, Tax & Budget Bulletin no. 7, May 2002. (PDF, 2 pgs, 172 Kb)

"'Sunsetting' to Reform and Abolish Federal Agencies," by Chris Edwards, Tax & Budget Bulletin no. 6, May 2002. (PDF, 2 pgs, 150 Kb)

"New Evidence on the Old Phillips Curve," by William Niskanen and Alan Reynolds, Tax & Budget Bulletin no. 5, May 2002. (PDF, 2 pgs, 148 Kb)

"Conservatism as Managerialism," by William A. Niskanen, Cato Policy Report, March/April 2002.

"Farm Reform Reversal," by Chris Edwards and Tad DeHaven, Tax & Budget Bulletin no. 2, March 2002.

"Do Budget Deficits Raise Long-Term Interest Rates?" by Alan Reynolds, Tax & Budget Bulletin no. 1, February 2002.

"Discretionary Spending for 2003: Bush to Exceed Clinton by $124 billion," News Release, February 4, 2002.

"Government Spending Upsurge Started Before 9/11—New CBO Numbers Show Projected Federal Spending Will Rise 31 Percent by FY 2004," News Release, January 23, 2002.

"Top Ten Fiscal Myths of Sens. Kennedy and Daschle," News Release, January 17, 2002.

"Sen. Daschle's latest economic stimulus 'plan' is economic bunkum, say experts," News Release, January 4, 2002.



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