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DOGE Can Cut Spending, but Real Reform Must Curb Government’s Scope

DOGE Can Cut Spending, but Real Reform Must Curb Government’s Scope
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David Hebert
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Examples of government waste are a dime a dozen these days: the debacles over the $640 toilet seats in the Pentagon and the Air Force’s $1,300 coffee mugs and the little-known Agricultural Marketing Service using the even-less-known Watermelon Research and Promotion Act of 1985 to “strengthen the position of watermelons in the marketplace” and the Consumer Product Safety Commission renewing its efforts to conduct the Child Strength Study to test children aged 3 months to 5 years so that they may “obtain child strength measures for upper and lower extremities and bite strength.”
David Hebert
David Hebert
Author
Dave Hebert, Ph.D., is a senior research fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER). He was formerly a professor at Aquinas College, Troy University, and Ferris State University. He has also been a fellow with the U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget and has worked for the U.S. Joint Economic Committee. Dr. Hebert’s research has been published in academic journals such as Public Choice, Constitutional Political Economy, and The Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice and popular outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, RealClearPolicy, RealClearMarkets, The Hill, and The Daily Caller. He also serves as an associate director of The Entangled Political Economy Research Network.