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Problems Solved By Government

You may think the government is useless, but you’re a dummy. And we’ll prove it: Here are ten different problems that have been solved by reckless government spending. Checkmate! More from The Babylon Bee.

California Businesses Leaving

Even Bill Maher has recognized the result of unchecked progressive policies and out-of-control taxation in a once-thriving state. There are lessons to be learned here, folks. More from PragerU.

Americans Favor Spending Cuts

Fifty-four percent of Americans say Congress should cut spending from current levels and 62 percent say Congress should forget about gun control and move on to other issues.

Social Security is widely popular, with 65 percent having a favorable view of the retirement portions of the program. But it’s also widely misunderstood as an individual retirement account rather than a transfer payment financed by current tax dollars.

A plurality – 45 percent of respondents – still dislike Obamacare and one in five Americans qualifies as libertarian based on responses to questions about the role of the government in social and economic affairs. The results come from the latest The Reason-Rupe Poll, a quarterly, national survey of 1,003 people via cell phones and landlines. More from Reason.TV.

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European Union Doomed to Fail

“The European Union as we know it will not exist in 10 years, believe me,” says Barbara Kolm, president of the Austrian Economics Center in Vienna, Austria. While countries like Sweden have instituted successful reforms, according the Kolm, the high taxation, powerful unions and bloated bureaucracies in most European countries will lead to the collapse of the EU’s economy. Kolm’s advice to policy makers in the US? “Don’t become Europe.”

Kolm stopped by ReasonTV’s Los Angeles studio to talk about the economic situation in Europe, the fate of the Euro and why America should not look to the Old World for financial advice.

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