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Sinking SCHIP: A First Step toward Stopping the Growth of Government Health Programs, Cato Brie

Executive Summary Federal lawmakers are considering legislation that could result in millions more middle income families obtaining health insurance from government. Unfortunately, the debate...
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Federal Aid to the States: Historical Cause of Government Growth and Bureaucracy, Cato Policy An

Executive Summary In recent years, members of Congress have inserted thousands of pork-barrel spending projects into bills to reward interests in their home states. But such parochial pork ...
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The Perfect Firestorm: Bringing Forest Service Wildfire Costs under Control, Cato Policy Analys

Executive Summary Blessed and cursed by a Congress that gives it a virtual if not literal blank check for fire protection, the Forest Service's fire spending is out of control. Prodded by a c...
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Has U.S. Income Inequality Really Increased?, Cato Policy Analysis No. 586

Executive Summary There are frequent complaints that U.S. income inequality has increased in recent decades. Estimates of rising inequality that are widely cited in the media are often based ...
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Budgeting in Neverland: Irrational Policymaking in the U.S. Congress and What Can Be Done about

Many Americans are disappointed by the huge amounts of money Congress spends, but that's not the real problem. The real problem is the profoundly irrational system Congress uses to decide how m...
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No Miracle in Massachusetts: Why Governor Romney's Health Care Reform Won't Work, Cato Briefing

Executive Summary Massachusetts has enacted one of the most far-reaching state health insurance reform packages in recent decades. Much attention has been focused on the act's unprecedented m...
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The Grand Old Spending Party: How Republicans Became Big Spenders, Cato Policy Analysis No. 543

Executive Summary President Bush has presided over the largest overall increase in inflation-adjusted federal spending since Lyndon B. Johnson. Even after excluding spending on defense and homelan...
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Deficits, Interest Rates, and Taxes: Myths and Realities, Cato Policy Analysis N

Executive Summary The federal government's swing from budget surpluses to budget deficits has raised concerns about possible negative economic effects. Some economists have argued t...
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Downsizing the Federal Government, Cato Policy Analysis No. 515

Executive Summary The federal government is headed toward a financial crisis as a result of chronic overspending, large deficits, and huge future cost increases in Social Security and M...
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The Republican Spending Explosion, Cato Briefing Paper No. 87

Executive Summary When the Republicans gained control of Congress in 1994, they promised to eliminate the deficit and reduce wasteful spending. For several years, the GOP partly upheld ...
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Keeping the Poor Poor: The Dark Side of the Living Wage, Cato Policy Analysis No

Executive Summary For nearly a decade, activists on the left have been conducting a highly effective nationwide campaign to mandate local minimum wages at levels that presumably elimina...
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War between the Generations: Federal Spending on the Elderly Set to Explode, Cat

Executive Summary At the signing ceremony for the new Medicare program in 1965, President Lyndon Johnson said, "No longer will young families see their own incomes, and their own hopes,...
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The Balanced Budget Veto: A New Mechanism to Limit Federal Spending, Cato Policy

Executive Summary The return to large federal deficits after a brief period of surpluses shows that it is very difficult to enforce fiscal discipline within the current budget process. ...
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FDIC Reform: Don't Put Taxpayers Back at Risk, Cato Policy Analysis No. 432

Executive Summary Enacted at the depth of a banking crisis, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991 effectively turned the deposit insurance system into a priv...
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Farm Subsidies at Record Levels As Congress Considers New Farm Bill, Cato Briefi

Executive Summary After six decades of rising subsidy levels and expansive regulatory controls, it appeared that Washington's role in agriculture would be reduced with the enactment of ...
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The Return of the Living Dead: Federal Programs That Survived the Republican Rev

Executive Summary The 106th Congress is well on its way to becoming the largest-spending Congress on domestic social programs since the late 1970s when Jimmy Carter sat in the Oval Office and Th...
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Legislative Malpractice: Misdiagnosing Patients' Rights, Cato Briefing Paper No.

Executive Summary The recent debate in Congress over patients' rights and the regulation of managed care has been predicated largely on a misunderstanding of the Employee Retirement Income Secur...
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Restoring Health Freedom: The Case for a Universal Tax Credit for Health Insuran

Executive Summary During the debate over the Clinton health care plan, opponents of "ClintonCare" pointed out that the plan would force Americans into restrictive managed-care plans with limited...
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