Tad DeHaven is a budget analyst at the Cato Institute. Previously he was a deputy director of the Indiana Office of Management and Budget. DeHaven also worked as a budget policy advisor to Senators Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Tom Coburn (R-OK). http://www.townhall.com/columnists/TadDeHaven http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/TadDeHaven TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2013 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Mon, 13 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT Mon, 13 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Last week I discussed the tendency for policymakers to treat the Pentagon like a giant jobs program. It was prompted by an article from the Associated Press on members of Congress shoving... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/TadDeHaven/2013/05/13/the-pentagon-as-a-jobs-program-part-ii-n1593503 772fea1f-1667-4630-8f30-7057573ec2ca Mon, 13 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT One of the realizations that helped me to dispense of the neoconish foreign policy views of my youth is that for federal policymakers, the Pentagon is like a giant jobs program. Regardless of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/TadDeHaven/2013/05/06/the-pentagon-as-a-jobs-program-n1587837 085412b9-41e3-4442-ac75-30e4abfc5ffb Mon, 06 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT According to The Hill, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) told Rush Limbaugh that the Republican Party is "primarily" to blame for the growth in government dependency: "I'd say that's a growing problem in America in general,"... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/TadDeHaven/2013/04/30/rubio-blames-gop-for-government-dependency-n1581276 cfbaefe8-909e-47c8-913e-ddabfddd6a7f Tue, 30 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT The Government Accountability Office has released its third annual report on fragmented, overlapping, or duplicative federal programs and activities. Proponents of making the government more... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/TadDeHaven/2013/04/22/duplicative-government-programs-are-a-symptom-of-the-problem-n1574575 7b91438a-3e27-43bd-9f44-0fb50baf2659 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT For this libertarian policy analyst, the annual release of the president’s budget proposal is like the day after your team loses the Super Bowl: everyone’s talking about it, but... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/TadDeHaven/2013/04/08/awaiting-obamas-latest-budget-proposal-n1560787 545a2c38-f320-4831-9071-72786805befe Mon, 08 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT The President on Tuesday signed the continuing resolution that funds the government through September and (gasp) keeps the sequester cuts intact. Now that it appears sequestration isn't going away (and yet the earth con http://www.townhall.com/columnists/TadDeHaven/2013/03/30/budget-problems-continue-in-washington-n1552382 7a8b8a0a-1229-40df-bdda-f28ed6b214cc Sat, 30 Mar 2013 04:01:00 GMT The Washington Post notes the following quote from Rep. Paul Ryan in his CPAC speech: “We don’t see the debt as an excuse to cut with abandon, to shirk our... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/TadDeHaven/2013/03/18/why-im-not-a-conservative-n1536942 1ce38339-f015-4198-98b7-9e7fa3ef917c Mon, 18 Mar 2013 04:01:00 GMT Sheldon Richman and I spent a lot of time last week running through numbers from the Congressional Budget Office in order to gauge sequestration’s effect on federal spending. In the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/TadDeHaven/2013/03/11/sequestration-and-voter-ignorance-n1530502 65a1ac34-0c5d-4c5f-a00e-c46602bf7c45 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 04:01:00 GMT The Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold has identified another budget zombie. This time it’s an obscure grant program administered by the Federal Aviation Administration that dumps... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/TadDeHaven/2013/03/04/its-plane-pork-n1525148 87c52aff-1db7-4735-8827-a47a866ee409 Mon, 04 Mar 2013 05:01:00 GMT The president made an appearance at the National Governors Association’s winter meeting to drum up support for his position that the sequestration spending cuts should be mitigated with... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/TadDeHaven/2013/03/03/sequestration-governors-are-a-special-interest-too-n1524754 c54e7ff9-e903-4619-ac8f-4293fde05635 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 05:01:00 GMT The scheduled implementation of the sequestration spending cuts is a little more than a week away, which has Republicans, Democrats, bureaucrats, special interests, and the media warning that... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/TadDeHaven/2013/02/22/the-areas-affected-by-sequestration-should-be-cut-n1517801 f8819525-5892-4cdb-8559-42dd301ad440 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT The Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold recently took a look at the $38 billion in spending cuts that Republicans and Democrats agreed to in 2011 in order to avoid a government shutdown.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/TadDeHaven/2013/02/19/those-phantom-spending-cuts-from-2011-n1515105 903a5634-15d7-49a9-8b61-d7c953b26966 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT The media’s harboring of a pro-government spending bias isn’t exactly news. But an article in Politico is notable because it illustrates the tendency for local newsrooms to push... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/TadDeHaven/2013/02/18/local-media-fuels-antisequestration-cuts-hysteria-n1514630 9790942f-689c-43cf-8796-566a53f0bac9 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT Beltway politicians like to pretend that smaller spending increases amount to spending “cuts.” As Dan Mitchell has pointed out numerous times (see here for one example), that’s... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/TadDeHaven/2013/02/11/defense-spending-hasnt-been-cut-by-600-billion-n1509529 0b284bbb-10fb-4c19-b3b9-5a0ffd8a6bbd Mon, 11 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT The odds that $85 billion in "unthinkable, draconian" sequestration spending cuts will go into effect in March as scheduled are looking better. The odds must be getting better because, as if on cue, the horror... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/TadDeHaven/2013/02/04/sequestration-cuts-will-lead-to-floods-plagues-and-pestilence-n1504357 bb21e7f0-0b06-43d9-8965-01f45011bd09 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT