Reason-able cuts?

Last fall Reason.com printed an “Abolish” issue of their magazine listing federal agencies, programs, and even cabinet departments that should be abolished. With the advent of DOGE one should point out that Reason was really examining and questioning the ROI of these entities. 

Some of  these pieces and similar, more recent ones, have been published digitally. Here’s a short list of pertinent articles:

Dumping Environmental Justice From the EPA Is a Good Step. Now Dump the EPA.

Trump and Congress Have a Right and a Duty To Kill the Department of Education

The feds have no constitutional authorization to meddle in education.

Abolish the Fed

A central bank is not essential to a functioning economy.

Abolish the CFPB

This rogue agency stifles innovation, drives up costs, and infantilizes consumers—all while operating without accountability.

Kill the Federal Department of Education

We could decentralize education, improve outcomes, and help reduce the size of the federal Leviathan.

FOLLOW UPS

The Department of Education Is in Limbo. Let's Kill It.

Congress should now turn its attention to abolishing the unnecessary federal education bureaucracy. 

J.D. TUCCILLE | 7.7.2025 7:00 AM

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The Senate Was Right To Defund NPR and PBS

This was not an attack on the free press.

ROBBY SOAVE | 7.17.2025 1:45 PM

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Abolish the U.S. Surgeon General

This “public health” position has long been a sinecure for professional activists.

J.D. TUCCILLE | 7.25.2025 7:00 AM

I’m devoting this space to journalist Matt Taibbi, “China guarantees free speech, unless it undermines “the interests of the state.” …In Russia jails are filling with regime critics…British police routinely conduct speech raids against offenders across the spectrum, Germany boasts about its thought cops on 60 Minutes, and the EU’s vast censorship law, the Digital Services Act, just played a role in helping overturn an election result in Romania. Around the world, from Ukraine to Australia to Israel to India, free expression is in full retreat.

That leaves America, where the First Amendment is the last obstacle to a global movement toward bureaucratization of speech. In last year’s campaign Donald Trump and J.D. Vance rightly ran against the speech excesses of the Democratic Party, with Vance saying views on censorship constituted the “biggest difference” between Trump and Kamala Harris…They seemed to know what they wanted to achieve on this issue.

That operation is now hanging by a thread. Trump is suddenly blowing it on the speech in a big way…reaching into the same emergency-power cookie jar that foreign counterpart-jackasses like Keir Starmer and Olaf Scholz and Thierry Breton have recently raided…Once [Trump] jumps on this bandwagon, we’re all screwed, because there’s nowhere left to run…

Going after people who have the right papers based on a dystopian pre-crime concept, or a vague standard of “hateful” beliefs, is the same thing every other country in the world is already doing.”

“Now is the time for your tears.” Bob Dylan