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• By: Hans Bader
• 01/21/2008

Congress and the President are working on a multi-billion-dollar ($140 billion plus) “stimulus package” in an effort to ward off a recession. One proposal that…

• By: Hans Bader
• 01/18/2008

In Virginia’s Arlington Sun-Gazette, reader Linda Jones complains about the fact that only a few public school teachers in Arlington County receive more than $100,000…

• By: Hans Bader
• 01/18/2008

Legal aid groups funded by taxpayers through the federal Legal Services Corporation (LSC) wasted money on forbidden things like liquor and subsidized "loans" to…

• By: Hans Bader
• 01/17/2008

A 2007 Virginia transportation law allowed the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority to levy a big new tax to finance transportation projects not on those who…

• By: Hans Bader
• 01/16/2008

Clayton Cramer points out that most people classified as poor by the federal government are actually not poor at all. Most people below the…