This updated Policy Brief examines the growth of local government spending in Texas between 1990 and 2009 compared to the growth of population and inflation.
D.C. Doesn’t Just Spend Too Much Money, It Spends On The Wrong Things
Can you imagine China, Russia, or Iran spending trillions of dollars to remove any fraction of the carbon dioxide they’re pumping into the air? When corporations — and people — misallocate capital, they tend to suffer. Of course, whether capital is misallocated is sometimes only fully understood after the fullness of time. The People’s Republic...