US Federal insurance program
Nobody knows when a hurricane or a recession will hit North Carolina, but everybody knows they will. State legislators kept spending in check and built up a $2 billion Savings…
John Locke Foundation’s Garland Tucker was featured in The Daily Caller answering the question “Why can’t Congress shrink the government?” Garland uses the current debate over reauthorization of the National…
Susan Ferrechio reports for the Washington Examiner on the apparent lack of interest in substantive reform on Capitol Hill this year. Republicans are punting on the big legislative items on…
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released an update to its list of high-risk federal program areas, which is updated every two years. The Medicaid program remains on GAO’s list of…
Regular readers in this forum might remember an April 2013 entry in which libertarian TV host John Stossel discussed the moral hazard associated with beachfront property. What do I mean…
John Stossel‘s latest column discusses one of the key problems associated with an over-reliance on government. He imagines a world with no bank bailouts. Today, taxpayers would be $1 trillion…
If you like big government, you ought to love federal flood insurance. Eli Lehrer explains why in an article for the Weekly Standard. By almost any analysis, the National Flood…
After adopting a FEMA floodplain ordinance, Graham County rejected the document in 2011. One reason given was that only nine of the county’s 110 miles of waterways were surveyed, and…
Tim Carney of the Washington Examiner documents an interesting response to efforts to end a blatant form of corporate welfare. Liberal magazine Mother Jones has a very good article on…
While listening to Professor Rob Young?s talk on fiscally irresponsible coastal policy such as the National Flood Insurance Program, I am reminded of an excerpt from John Stossel?s book ?Give…
Take a look at all the federal money thrown at North Carolina in 2005 — and where it went. To motels, Sonic Drive-Ins, and Dunkin’ Donuts. In all, some $35…
On the private vs public cost of insurance in flood prone areas, NCPA pointed out this article today. I had understood that most urban planners put residences and offices above…