By Leslie Paige

“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”  That is one of many truisms expressed by the nation’s first Postmaster General, Benjamin Franklin … 

 

By Luke Gelber

Among the bevy of wasteful, misguided, market-distorting policies that comprise U.S. agricultural policy, perhaps none is more convoluted or a product of cronyism than the commodity support program for sugar ...

 

 

By William M. Christian

To the untrained ear, subjects like “Green this” and “LEED-certified that” might be expected to turn off the typical Republican, according to those who buy into the stereotype that those whose politics are right-of-center are disinterested in anything considered “environmentally conscious” ...

 

By PJ Austin

On the large list of sources of waste in Medicare, improper payments are near the top.  According to a February 27, 2013 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, “In 2012, the Medicare program covered more than 49 million elderly and disabled beneficiaries at an estimated cost of $555 billion, and reported improper payments estimated to be more than $44 billion” ...

 

By Deborah Collier

On May 10, 2013, Citizens Against Government Waste hosted a briefing on “Saving Taxpayer Dollars through Better Software Management’ to bring light to the need for sound software procurement policy, particularly in these times of fiscal constraint ...