Cato Policy Analysis No. 339 April 5, 1999 Sports Pork: The Costly Relationship between Major League Sports and Government by Raymond J. Keating Raymond J. Keating is chief economist for the Washington-based Small Business Survival Committee, a weekly columnist with Newsday in New York, and a partner with Capitol Hill Research, a political and economic analysis service. He is coauthor of D.C. by ...

Military Waste & Fraud: $172 billion/year excerpted from the book Take the Rich Off Welfare by Mark Zepezauer and Arthur Naiman Odonian Press, 1996 Military Waste and Fraud - $172 billion a year When it comes to wasting money, the Pentagon has no peer. For one thing, there's the single question of scale. For fiscal year 1996, the Pentagon budget was $265 billion ($7 billion more than it ...

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Cato Policy Analysis No. 287 November 5, 1997 ISTEA A Poisonous Brew for American Cities by Randal O'Toole Randal O'Toole is executive director of the Thoreau Institute and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. Executive Summary Will travel be faster and easier in the 21st century, or will traffic be bogged down by a cumbersome central planning process that creates more urban congestion and ...

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Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. George Washington. ... There will always be a party for giving more to the rulers, that the rulers may be able in return to give more to them. Hence as all history informs us, there has been in every State & Kingdom a constant kind of warfare between the governing & governed: ...

TEE-ING OFF THE TAXPAYER EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Admiral Gene LaRocque (USN, Ret.), President, Center for Defense Information HOST: Admiral John Shanahan (USN, Ret.) Director, Center for Defense Information DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH: David T. Johnson DIRECTOR of TELEVISION: Mark Sugg PRODUCERS: Glenn Baker Jennifer Hazen Stephen Sapienza PRINCIPAL ANALYST & SCRIPTWRITER: Stephen Sapienza SEGMENT ...