Writings by Topic: Government Spending
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Will making community college free make it better? |
The Boston Globe |
July 28, 2024 |
Happy about your IRS refund? Don't be. |
The Boston Globe |
April 17, 2024 |
Defying the Supreme Court on student loans, Biden sets a dangerous precedent |
The Boston Globe |
April 14, 2024 |
As the deficit soars, Biden boasts that he has cut the deficit |
The Boston Globe |
September 17, 2023 |
The earmarks in the budget go 'oink-oink-oink' |
Arguable |
June 6, 2023 |
There is no '14th Amendment option' to raise the debt ceiling |
The Boston Globe |
May 24, 2023 |
Republicans passed a debt-limit bill. What are Democrats waiting for? |
The Boston Globe |
May 8, 2023 |
Don't give up Twitter, NPR. Give up your subsidy. |
Arguable |
April 18, 2023 |
As Social Security races toward a cliff, both parties refuse to act |
The Boston Globe |
February 15, 2023 |
Patton's prayer |
Arguable |
December 6, 2022 |
Congress can attack inflation — if it chooses to |
The Boston Globe |
November 30, 2022 |
The taming of income inequality |
The Boston Globe |
November 15, 2022 |
Congress sued to block Trump's illegal spending. Now it should sue to block Biden's |
The Boston Globe |
September 11, 2022 |
Canceling student debt will make things worse |
The Boston Globe |
May 1, 2022 |
The inflation hawks have been right all along |
The Boston Globe |
November 17, 2021 |
A free press doesn't take government handouts |
The Boston Globe |
October 24, 2021 |
It isn't tax cuts that are driving federal deficits |
The Boston Globe |
October 20, 2021 |
As Washington debates the debt limit, the hypocrisy is at flood tide |
The Boston Globe |
September 26, 2021 |
Harry Truman conned us all |
The Boston Globe |
July 28, 2021 |
No ministry of culture, please, we're American |
The Boston Globe |
July 25, 2021 |
Beacon Hill, hoarding billions in surplus dollars, won't give taxpayers a break |
The Boston Globe |
July 14, 2021 |
This is no time to bring back earmarks |
The Boston Globe |
March 21, 2021 |
Billionaires and multimillionaires don't need a government pension |
The Boston Globe |
January 27, 2021 |
A student debt bailout would be unjust and unwise |
The Boston Globe |
November 22, 2020 |
Were California voters confused? |
Arguable |
November 9, 2020 |
In the race for the White House, it's protectionist vs. protectionist |
The Boston Globe |
July 15, 2020 |
Politicians are only human |
The Boston Globe |
January 5, 2020 |
What are the odds of ending lottery advertising? |
Arguable |
December 9, 2019 |
Where's the clamor over our disastrous national debt? |
The Boston Globe |
September 22, 2019 |
With the market making parental leave routine, who needs Congress? |
The Boston Globe |
June 2, 2019 |
Special Olympics can soar on its own |
The Boston Globe |
April 3, 2019 |
The government shutdown was expected to damage the economy. It didn't. |
The Boston Globe |
February 6, 2019 |
Short live the Legislature! |
The Boston Globe |
August 12, 2018 |
The Tea Party, RIP |
The Boston Globe |
February 14, 2018 |
Bribes — er, incentives — for Amazon |
The Boston Globe |
September 13, 2017 |
At the Berkshire Museum, a display of backbone |
The Boston Globe |
July 30, 2017 |
Deliver us from Scripture-citers |
The Boston Globe |
March 26, 2017 |
Scrap the NEA, and America's arts scene will thrive |
The Boston Globe |
March 1, 2017 |
Like a fish needs a treadmill |
The Boston Globe |
January 15, 2017 |
Israel doesn't need American foreign aid |
The Boston Globe |
September 4, 2016 |
Making college 'free' will only make it worse |
The Boston Globe |
July 13, 2016 |
Killing us softly with overregulation |
The Boston Globe |
May 11, 2016 |
GE, Massachusetts, and the corruption of crony capitalism |
The Boston Globe |
January 20, 2016 |
The weakest economic recovery in modern times |
The Boston Globe |
January 7, 2016 |
'Sesame Street' moves to HBO, and everyone wins |
The Boston Globe |
August 19, 2015 |
Free Roxbury with free enterprise |
The Boston Globe |
June 14, 2015 |
Millionaire ex-presidents can pay their own way |
The Boston Globe |
May 24, 2015 |
No wonder voters like a candidate who knows how to castrate hogs |
The Boston Globe |
November 2, 2014 |
They're so vain, they probably think this bridge is about them |
The Boston Globe |
August 2, 2014 |
Dissenters in a one-party statehouse |
The Boston Globe |
July 6, 2014 |
Public-sector pensions are eating taxpayers alive |
The Boston Globe |
March 23, 2014 |
The problem is the debt, not the debt ceiling |
The Boston Globe |
October 16, 2013 |
Washington booms – thanks to other people's money |
The Boston Globe |
June 5, 2013 |
Yes, slash farm subsidies — but don't stop there |
The Boston Globe |
November 25, 2012 |
The government's college money pit |
The Boston Globe |
April 29, 2012 |
Romney, Republicans, and the young |
The Boston Globe |
March 25, 2012 |
Memo to Washington: Kick the spending habit |
The Boston Globe |
November 20, 2011 |
Uncle Sam's IOUs can't save Social Security |
The Boston Globe |
September 7, 2011 |
Tea Partiers sound an urgent alarm |
The Boston Globe |
August 14, 2011 |
Slash spending and the economy will bloom |
The Boston Globe |
June 8, 2011 |
The debt-ceiling scaremongers |
The Boston Globe |
May 4, 2011 |
The myth of 'Herbert Hoover economics' |
The Boston Globe |
April 13, 2011 |
The convention-center follies |
The Boston Globe |
March 23, 2011 |
What NPR needs is a little tough love |
The Boston Globe |
March 13, 2011 |
Separation of Jesus and Congress |
The Boston Globe |
March 6, 2011 |
No subsidy for NPR |
The Boston Globe |
November 24, 2010 |
Europe says no to deficit-spending 'stimulus' |
The Boston Globe |
November 3, 2010 |
Yes on 3: Four reasons to roll back the sales tax |
The Boston Globe |
October 24, 2010 |
What public-sector unions have wrought |
Commentary |
October 2010 |
'Clunkers' was a classic government folly |
The Boston Globe |
September 1, 2010 |
Let the private sector fund stem-cell research |
The Boston Globe |
August 29, 2010 |
Does the press deserve a bailout? |
The Boston Globe |
July 20, 2010 |
Paying the price for a UMass law school |
The Boston Globe |
February 7, 2010 |
Public-sector pay, private-sector backlash |
The Boston Globe |
January 27, 2010 |
Economics 101: How little they really know |
The Boston Globe |
December 16, 2009 |
The myth of the underpaid public employee |
The Boston Globe |
September 30, 2009 |
Clunker Q&A |
The Boston Globe |
August 26, 2009 |
The pension wolves |
The Boston Globe |
April 1, 2009 |
Money for nothing won't grow the economy |
The Boston Globe |
February 1, 2009 |
An over-optimistic stimulus plan |
The Boston Globe |
January 28, 2009 |
Better than a bailout |
The Boston Globe |
December 14, 2008 |
The great Bush 'deregulation' myth |
The Boston Globe |
November 19, 2008 |
It's time for a 'blunt budget ax' |
The Boston Globe |
October 5, 2008 |
What, them worry? |
The Boston Globe |
August 6, 2008 |
Are we angry enough to fight back? |
The Boston Globe |
July 20, 2008 |
Remember, there's no free lunch |
The Boston Globe |
January 23, 2008 |
Driving up the cost of college |
The Boston Globe |
February 10, 2005 |
The most bloated budget ever |
The Boston Globe |
February 5, 2004 |
A 'beached whale' for South Boston |
The Boston Globe |
November 1, 1999 |
The grand old spending party |
The Boston Globe |
August 26, 1999 |
PBS can fly on its own |
The Boston Globe |
July 22, 1999 |
The right way to subsidize artists |
The Boston Globe |
May 27, 1999 |
No pork for the Patriots |
The Boston Globe |
April 22, 1999 |
The tobacco money should go to the taxpayers |
The Boston Globe |
April 12, 1999 |
Serious artists don't need the NEA |
The Boston Globe |
March 4, 1999 |
Give the tobacco windfall back to the taxpayers |
The Boston Globe |
December 10, 1998 |
Boston's 'lost' conventions |
The Boston Globe |
July 27, 1998 |
Clinton's other whopper |
The Boston Globe |
February 3, 1998 |
Lower deficit, bigger government |
The Boston Globe |
October 30, 1997 |
Despite its promises, the NEA remains unchanged |
The Boston Globe |
August 21, 1997 |
Bush laid the ground for budget deal? Nonsense |
The Boston Globe |
August 12, 1997 |
Raises for Finneran's pals, but no relief for taxpayers |
The Boston Globe |
July 8, 1997 |
The Framers would have voted to abolish the NEA |
The Boston Globe |
July 3, 1997 |
Art without the NEA |
The Boston Globe |
April 15, 1997 |
A commercial jewel in PBS's crown |
The Boston Globe |
February 13, 1997 |
Education inflation |
The Boston Globe |
February 6, 1997 |
Imagine, a candidacy based on principle |
The Boston Globe |
October 8, 1996 |
Germans face big bills for decades of social spending |
The Boston Globe |
July 2, 1996 |
The flag in the toilet |
The Boston Globe |
May 21, 1996 |
Let's end corporate welfare as we know it |
The Boston Globe |
March 12, 1996 |
The shutdown has me worried sick |
The Boston Globe |
November 16, 1995 |
Macworld's lesson for the megaplex debate |
The Boston Globe |
August 10, 1995 |
Targeting the pay raisers |
The Boston Globe |
August 1, 1995 |
Arts money for arts insiders |
The Boston Globe |
July 25, 1995 |
What Jesse Helms should have said |
The Boston Globe |
July 11, 1995 |
The sorry state of state colleges |
The Boston Globe |
June 20, 1995 |
The government's assault on higher education |
The Boston Globe |
June 1, 1995 |
Freedom is the loser with a government-run 'megaplex' |
The Boston Globe |
May 25, 1995 |
How the NEA pollutes American culture |
The Boston Globe |
January 24, 1995 |
How to fix Social Security |
The Boston Globe |
December 22, 1994 |
Convention wisdom |
The Boston Globe |
December 13, 1994 |
From Foxboro, foul play on the taxpayers |
The Boston Globe |
March 3, 1994 |
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