Writings by Topic: Government Spending
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Publication |
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| Belichick wasn't snubbed at taxpayer expense |
The Boston Globe |
February 18, 2026 |
| NPR loses. The First Amendment wins. |
Arguable |
July 22, 2025 |
| All things considered, NPR should pay its own way |
The Boston Globe |
June 1, 2025 |
| Why Musk flopped |
The Boston Globe |
May 18, 2025 |
| A 'baby bonus' won't solve the nation's birthrate problem |
The Boston Globe |
May 4, 2025 |
| Life is for the living. The names on public buildings shouldn't be. |
The Boston Globe |
January 29, 2025 |
| Argentina's capitalist counterrevolution is off to a good start |
The Boston Globe |
December 8, 2024 |
| The myths that cover up why Social Security is crashing |
The Boston Globe |
November 24, 2024 |
| 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 |
| Antismoking: Who pays? |
The Boston Globe |
February 3, 2002 |
| Hands off the tax cut |
The Boston Globe |
January 27, 2002 |
| As always, Mr. Tax-and-Spend |
The Boston Globe |
January 20, 2002 |
| Musings, random and otherwise |
The Boston Globe |
January 17, 2002 |
| Musings, random and otherwise |
The Boston Globe |
December 27, 2001 |
| Will they kill the tax cut? |
The Boston Globe |
November 15, 2001 |
| Amtrak has problems that money can't solve |
The Boston Globe |
October 25, 2001 |
| The swollen state budget |
The Boston Globe |
October 18, 2001 |
| Big money for the Big Dig |
The Boston Globe |
March 13, 2000 |
| How to spend the surplus |
The Boston Globe |
February 3, 2000 |
| 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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