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The Constitutional Case for Cutting Government Spending

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The Constitutional Case for Cutting Government Spending
A screen displaying the U.S. national debt is seen in Manhattan on April 11, 2025. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images
Mark Hendrickson
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A majority of Americans, fed up with chronic government budget deficits, an ever-growing national debt, and the obnoxious obtrusiveness of federal bureaucracies, clearly share the goal of slashing government spending.

Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.