Four Reasons Why Big Government Is Bad Government

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Feb 102011
 

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This Economics 101 video from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity explains that excessive government spending undermines prosperity by diverting resources from the productive sector of the economy. Moreover, the two main ways of financing government — taxes and borrowing — cause additional economic damage.

Great Moments in Unintended Consequences

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Dec 112010
 

All actions have unanticipated side effects, but government acting through regulation or legislation is particularly adept at creating disastrous unintended consequences.

Great Moments in Unintended Consequences takes a look at three instances of epic government facepalm: Osborne Reef, Corn Ethanol Subsidies, and a particular clause in ObamaCare that is already doing more harm than good.

Sen. Coburn: The Problem With America Is Too Much Government

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Dec 062010
 

Sen. Tom Coburn must be listening to Glenn Beck.

“We have way too much government and not enough of what made America great,” Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) told the debt commission last week.

Coburn criticized the amount of government and spending that has created a tremendous amount of debt. “You can not be comfortable with the status quo,” he told his Congressional colleagues as well as commission chairs Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles.

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History says we’re not going to make it,” Coburn said, citing Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton said that the average age of a Republic was 200 years and eventually “all republics fail.”

“The way forward for America is for everybody to start sacrificing so we create a future that is honoring the tremendous sacrifice that came before us,” he said.

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