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June 3, 2011

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Three-Quarters of Americans Support a Federal Government Spending Cap

The recent Reason-Rupe national telephone survey of 1,200 adults found that over 74 percent of Americans say the federal government should have spending cap that prevents it from spending more than it takes in during a fiscal year. Sixty-four percent of Democrats support implementing a spending cap, as do 76 percent of independents and nearly 85 percent of Republicans.

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Taxpayer-Friendly Solutions to America's Transportation Challenges

Seven cost-effective transportation strategies

Samuel Staley, Shirley Ybarra, Erich W. Zimmerman, Nick Donohue

This paper will introduce seven transportation tools – some big, some small – that can help improve our nation’s transportation system at taxpayer-friendly costs. This paper offers some of the latest ideas and innovations that can inform the process as Congress writes the next six-year transportation bill. We hope members of Congress will be inspired to encourage, promote, and develop these and other cost-effective transportation measures.

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Environmentalists Were For Fracking Before They Were Against It

Shale gas is still the bridge fuel to a low-carbon energy future.

Ronald Bailey

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The Most Interesting Man in the Senate

Rand Paul reshapes the national debate.

Matt Welch

It's getting hard to remember now, but there was a time for a little while there when a fair number of libertarians were worried that Rand Paul was shaping up to be another Beltway sellout. Yet as Reason Editor in Chief Matt Welch observes in a review of Rand Paul's new book The Tea Party Goes to Washington, the junior senator from Kentucky has quickly dispelled any and all fears that he was just riding his father Ron Paul's coattails (and national fundraising network). As Welch observes, Rand Paul is now the most interesting man in the Senate and is steadily pushing the national debate in a more libertarian direction.

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