The U.S. economy certainly needs infrastructure. The important policy issue, however, is who can deliver it most efficiently—the federal government, state and local governments, or the private sector. Decades of experience show that when the federal government gets involved in infrastructure, investment often gets bogged down in politics, mismanagement, and cost overruns.
Much discussion about higher education assumes that the children of wealthy parents have all the...
The lion’s share of transportation funding should come from user taxes and fees, such as...
The data in the chart represents the income distribution for the estimated 194,271,175 Americans...
States and cities spend $81 million annually lobbying the federal government.