Rast: Federally-Owned Lands Help No One

By Rebekah Rast || The federal government owns almost 650 million acres of land in the U.S. That’s about 30 percent of all the land area in the nation and includes national parks, forests and wildlife refuges.
That’s 1 out of every 3 acres in the U.S.—1 out of every 2 acres in the West, says [...]

Rast: On “Mandatory” Spending

By Rebekah Rast || Entitlement programs, also known as mandatory spending, account for two-thirds of the federal budget. This current fiscal year, mandatory spending exceeds total federal receipts.
In hard numbers, mandatory spending is estimated to cost this country $2.194 trillion this year alone, according to the Office of Management and [...]