Obama Admits CBO Cost Estimates of ObamaCare Are Incomplete

By Michael F. Cannon
Yesterday — day #224 of the ObamaCare Cost-Estimate Watch — President Obama told House Republicans:
You can’t structure a bill where suddenly 30 million people have coverage and it costs nothing.

And just like that, the president admitted that the official Congressional Budget Office estimates of his health care plan do not reflect its […]

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Karl Rove’s Spending

By Chris Edwards
Former George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove enjoys complaining about the spendthrift ways of President Obama and the Democrats. But I noted in a Wall Street Journal letter today:
 Annual average real spending grew faster under President George W. Bush than any president since Lyndon Johnson… Even leaving out defense, President Bush was the biggest spender since […]

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Larry Lessig and the Lunching Libertarians

By Julian Sanchez
Outside the realm of copyright, Cato folk (and libertarians generally) don’t often see eye-to-eye with left-leaning cyberlawyer and Harvard prof Lawrence Lessig. Nevertheless, I wasn’t too surprised when Lessig signaled his interest in opening a dialogue with Cato scholars about his Change Congress project and his research on political corruption. After all, we’ve […]

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The Presidential Scold

By Roger Pilon
Today, Politico Arena asks for comments on:
Duking it out in Baltimore

My response:
It’s all well and good that President Obama wants to meet with Republicans — giving the appearance of reaching out — but when it’s mainly to “chastise” them for opposing his programs, as the AP is reporting after his session at the […]

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Weekend Links

By Chris Moody

A libertarian primer on the real meaning of the phrase “campaign finance reform.” For more, read John Samples’ book, The Fallacy of Campaign Finance Reform.
New report shows that Head Start, a sacrosanct (and very expensive) federal education program, doesn’t work. So what should we do about it? Give it more money of course!
“In his […]

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This Week in Government Failure

By Tad DeHaven
Over at Downsizing Government, we focused on the following issues this week:

The federal government added its 2,000th subsidy program for individuals, businesses, or state and local governments. Statists, rejoice!
Hundreds of the nation’s mayors meet in Washington to grovel for federal handouts.
President Obama’s proposed spending freeze wouldn’t actually be a freeze.
USDA chief Tom Vilsack […]

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