DownsizingGovernment.org - Cato Institute

[John Loque]

http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/

About Downsizing the Federal Government

The federal government is running massive budget deficits, spending too much, and heading toward a financial crisis. Without a change of direction in Washington, average working families will be faced with huge tax increases and a lower standard of living.

This website is designed to help policymakers and the public understand where federal funds are being spent and how to reform each government department. It describes the failings of federal agencies and identifies specific programs to cut. It also discusses the systematic reasons why government programs are often obsolete, mismanaged, or otherwise dysfunctional.

Some people have lofty visions about how government spending can help society. But the essays on this website put aside such “bedtime stories” about how government programs are supposed to work, and instead focuses on how they actually work in the real world.

Downsizing the Federal Government is a project of the Cato Institute. Scholars at Cato believe that cutting the federal budget would enlarge personal freedom, increase growth and prosperity, and leave a positive fiscal legacy to the next generation.

For information on the data sources for the charts on this site, please see here.

Please contact cedwards@cato.org or tdehaven@cato.org with any questions or comments.

[Nick de Cusa]

Très bonne vidéo. Si on pouvait faire la même pour l'Europe. (Faire son testament avant de la publier).