Big Government

The Justice Department's decision not to pursue charges against former IRS official Lois Lerner has conservatives and activist groups in a rage.

With the President making his push for tax reform this week, a natural question to ask is: just how much do folks pay in taxes, anyway? According to this piece, more than you think:

The federal government makes billions of dollars in payments each year to individuals, businesses and organizations. But as we all know, not all of those payments are legitimate. Fraud, waste, and old-fashioned incompetence mean that huge sums are paid out in error. How much? According to the Manhattan Institute, enough to put a nice dent in the yearly deficit:

Among environmentalists, the Trump administration's efforts to bring accountability and fiscal prudence to the Environmental Protection Agency are grave sins.

Despite what some politicians tell us, the federal government is a master at wasting money. Not all of that waste is due to sinister plots intended to defraud the taxpayer. Much of it can be put down to old-fashioned incompetence.

The Trump administration's promise to drain the DC swamp appears to have run into a formidable obstacle at the Office of Personnel Management:

The IRS has long been a source of bad management, bad policy, and shoddy compliance. And even with a new president in the White House, the agency's bad habits show no signs of changing.

Amidst the wreckage of the GOP's attempt to repeal Obamacare last week comes a possible bright spot: the President could end Congress' Obamacare

Federal government waste has been a problem since the Republic's founding.