Tuesday, July 22, 2025

 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:


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. 

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The Senate Was Right To Defund NPR and PBS

This was not an attack on the free press.

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Abolish the U.S. Surgeon General

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

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The Trump Administration's recent abuses of the agency's powers lend weight to longstanding libertarian arguments for abolishing it, going back to Nobel Prize-winning economist Ronald Coase's classic 1959 article. 

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