Ed. note: this post was written by CAGW intern Aaron Swensen The nation’s outstanding student loan balance climbed to more than $1 trillion in May, which includes $460.2 billion held by the federal government. If the higher education bubble bursts, taxpayers will have to clean up the mess. Like the recent housing bubble, this bubble [...]
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When is $24 billion not a lot of money? When it represents all the savings taxpayers can expect from the supposedly new-and-improved Farm Bill, formally known as S. 3240, the Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2012, which may reach the Senate floor by mid-June. The bill, which was co-authored by Senate Agriculture Committee [...]
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In the past week, following the publication of my May 22 Washington Times op-ed, where I pointed out that “The result of the ‘investment’ made by ‘Obama Capital,’ which has used hundreds of billions of dollars of the taxpayers’ money to ‘create jobs,’ has been a persistent 8 percent unemployment rate and annual trillion dollar-plus [...]
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As co-chair of the Privacy Working Group, Citizens Against Government Waste has long been interested in online privacy issues. CAGW previously reported in March about the potential implications of the Obama Administration’s proposal for a Consumer Online Privacy Bill of Rights. On May 31, 2012, Microsoft announced that as part of the Windows 8 release [...]
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