Pork Barrel Hurricane Relief
Instead of providing a focus on the victims, or a focus on the nation’s bottom line, lawmakers on Capitol Hill have focused on pork-barrel projects as far from Sandy’s impact zone as one gets in the United States.
Recent Other Voices
What Recessison? - Liz Farmer, Governing Magazine
Metropolitan areas in Texas and Oklahoma are leading the nation in their overall recovery from the...
Raising Medicare's Retirement Age - Avik Roy, Forbes
Raising Medicare’s retirement age increases the progressivity of government health benefits,...
NY's Long Deficit Shuffle - State Budget Task Force
Rather than balance their budget, New York legislators have used some $25 billion in one-shot...
Post Election Regulatory Cliff - Matthew Daly, Associated Press
While the "fiscal cliff" of looming tax increases and spending cuts dominates political...
