March 5, 2012 7:51AM

Endless Spending

By David Boaz

Urging Congress to spend more money on infrastucture, Rep. John Sarbanes (Big Government‐Maryland) says, “You’ve got to kind of get past this mentality that you can’t spend any money at all.”

Right. Because it’s that kind of attitude that has given us a federal budget of $3.8 trillion, up more than 100 percent in a decade, and spending at permanently higher levels of GDP:

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