January 15, 2010 11:35AM 

# This Week in Government Failure 

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

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Over at [Downsizing Government](http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/), we focused on the following issues this week:

- It’s time to end the federal government’s bias toward [homeownership](http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/federal-bias-toward-homeownership).
- [Federal agriculture subsidies](http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/pepsi-throwback-and-sugar-racket) make it difficult to find Pepsi or Coke with real sugar in it.
- [Government job creation](http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/federal-job-creation) efforts are a loser for taxpayers, employers, and employees.
- The [Department of Health and Human Services](http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/hhs-bureaucracy-not-task) is not up to the task of handling the additional responsibilities pending health care legislation would give it.
- The latest on [cost overrun](http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/cost-overrun-incompetence-energy) incompetence at the Department of Energy.

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

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