Your Federal Tax Dollars and Government Waste
17 May 2013
Dr. David Muhlhausen, Research Fellow in Empirical Policy Analysis at The Heritage Foundation's Center for Data Analysis, discusses government waste and ineffective social programs, and how spending on social programs has far outpaced population growth.
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