government

The nation has averted a so-called “public health crisis,” but that hasn’t stopped lawmakers from playing doctor.

The answer to everything even remotely policy-related – is less government.

Government paternalism consists not only of giving people things they didn’t pay for, but also in preventing people from making decisions that, in the benevolent judgment of superintending bureaucrats, aren’t in their best interest.

Today bigger, supremely powerful global governments are justified by environmental claims.

Government often seems quite adept at solving yesterday’s problems, building or protecting systems that are irrelevant today.

We live in a time when an understanding and an appreciation of what a free society can or should be like is being slowly lost.

Wisdom is eternal.  Because it is so rare a commodity it is treasured by all who actually like and respect all that is good.

We’ve long chronicled the incredibly obnoxious government cronyism incredibly huge Amazon (Market Cap: $779 billion) garners.

American innovation, private property rights and capitalism have led to a revolutionary sea change in the energy landscape by developing the vast oceans of natural gas through horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing.

The awful California wildfires that have killed dozens of people and destroyed hundreds of millions of dollars worth of property – are absolutely atrocious.  It is such an inconceivable loss.

Does government really need to regulate everything? Can no program be allowed to expire?

The Barack Obama Administration was awful for America, We the People – and the public policies that make the awfulness possible.  In ways and directions too numerous to count.

Donny Kendal and John Nothdurft present episode #157 of the In The Tank Podcast. This week’s episode features work from the Illinois Policy Institute, the Civitas Institute, and National Taxpayers Union Foundation.