What’s a cut in federal spending? To me, it’s when a federal agency has less money to spend in the current year than it did in the previous year. The Department of Education spent $100 billion last year, but this year it only gets to spend $99 billion. There was a billion dollar cut in …
Here’s the formula for being an awesome congressperson: That’s all it takes. You don’t have to think. You don’t have to step on anyone’s toes. Just pledge more taxpayer money to some favored group. The national debt is already north of $36 trillion. Who cares if Washington becomes even more profligate? Any well-manicured ape can …
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Higher education has two main problems. One, it’s too expensive, and, two, it wastes too much of a student’s time. Here’s how I would fix both of those problems. Making Higher Education Less Costly Do college amenities really need to include a climbing wall and a lazy river? Do colleges really need to run de …
It’s spring cleaning time, and a few days ago, while I was bringing order to my chaotic bedroom closet, I came across a list of my top ten movie comedies. Here it is. I don’t know when I wrote this list. But it looks like it has a lot of recency bias, so I figure …
Yesterday, I came across the following article in my Google feed: How can NYC’s next mayor bring down homelessness? Housing groups weigh-in. I decided to read the article. But not because I was curious about the answer. I already knew where the article would trod. More government spending on housing. More New Yorkers dependent on …