April 10, 2009 5:58PM 

# Stop Spending Our Future 

By [Tad DeHaven](https://www.cato.org/people/tad-dehaven) 

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That’s the title of an alarming, but informative, video [over at Reason TV](http://reason.com/blog/show/132787.html). The video contains lots of eye-popping comparisons between amounts being spent on bailouts/“stimulus” and previous big-ticket government expenditures like the World War II and the New Deal.

And if you haven’t done so already, check out my colleague Dan Mitchell’s videos on the [fallacies of Keynesian economics](https://www.cato.org/2008/12/15/are-we-all-keynesians-now/) and the [folly of so-called fiscal “stimulus” packages](https://www.cato.org/2009/01/26/obamas-so-called-stimulus-scheme-good-for-government-bad-for-the-economy/).

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[Tax and Budget Policy](https://www.cato.org/tax-budget-policy) 

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