Ronald D. Utt

Ronald Utt, privatization czar during the Reagan administration, is now a senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation (www.heritage.org), a Washington-based public policy research institute

Federal Spending Creates Few Jobs, Less Value

During the recent debate on legislation to reauthorize the federal highway system, many supporters of the program claimed that it would create 2 million jobs. But as decades of research demonstrate, such claims are questionable given the mixed findings of the many...
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How To Run A Railroad (Or At Least Amtrak)

Mar 13, 2003 |

Many wasteful government programs contribute to the growing federal deficit, but the king of them all is Amtrak. The national passenger rail service incurs two dollars in costs for every dollar of tickets sold. Created in 1971 from a collection of ailing...

How Taxpayers Prop Up Sport Mogul’s Profits

Aug 23, 2002 |

Art Modell, owner of the NFL Baltimore Ravens, observed during one of his struggles to get local taxpayers to build him a stadium that "The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries, and I say that with all due respect...

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