My new op-ed at The Hill discusses the disastrous rise in federal government debt as profligacy dominates both parties in Washington.

The federal government spends $14 billion a year on subsidies for local rail and bus transit.

The United States is more socialistic than other advanced economies in numerous ways. Federal and state governments attempt to run businesses that have been privatized in other countries, such as electric utilities, airports, air traffic control, postal services, and passenger rail.

Rather than supporting land privatization, Republicans today are embracing the opposite.

Americans are moving from higher-tax states to lower-tax states.

Many studies over the years have found that federal job training programs create few discernable benefits to the economy.

The federal government spends more than $700 billion a year on 1,386 subsidy programs for state and local activities such schools, transit, and housing.

The federal government is enormously inefficient. Agencies have little incentive to control costs or improve quality, and Congress does little serious oversight.

Opportunity Zones have divided our cities and towns into winner and loser zones, while encouraging political corruption.

A century-old public utility model is not the best way to address America’s two-tiered consumer financial system; competition and regulatory reform is.