Tad DeHaven

Tad DeHaven

Tad DeHaven is a budget analyst at the Cato Institute. Previously he was a deputy director of the Indiana Office of Management and Budget. DeHaven also worked as a budget policy advisor to Senators Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Tom Coburn (R-OK).

Articles

Good Reporting on Federal Subsidies to State and Local Government
Finance

Good Reporting on Federal Subsidies to State and Local Government

Bipartisanship Lives!
Bipartisanship

Bipartisanship Lives!

The Budget Showdown Concludes — with Setting up a New One
Cato Institute

The Budget Showdown Concludes — with Setting up a New One

Government “Shutdown” Shuts Down Beer
Economy

Government “Shutdown” Shuts Down Beer

Finance

The Fraudulent Disability-Industrial Complex Discovered

The Government (Non) Shutdown
Cato Institute

The Government (Non) Shutdown

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Americans’ Faith in Government Is Waning - and That’s Good
Big Government

Americans’ Faith in Government Is Waning - and That’s Good

Department of Defense

House Republicans’ Sequestration Shenanigans

Budget

Now Playing: Budget Brawl 2013

U.S. Government Spending, 1970-2013
Cato Institute

U.S. Government Spending, 1970-2013

Finance

U.S. Postal Service Likely to Seek “Emergency” Increase in Stamp Prices

Bipartisanship: Corporate Welfare
Bipartisanship

Bipartisanship: Corporate Welfare

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Big Government

And Next Year There Will Be an Eighth Budget “Showdown”

Surge in Disability Claims Is Gold Mine for Law Firms
Cato Institute

Surge in Disability Claims Is Gold Mine for Law Firms

Federal Job Training Programs and Crony Capitalism
Cato Institute

Federal Job Training Programs and Crony Capitalism

Budget

Grand Bargains and Budget Battles

Feds and the States Tag-Teaming on Corporate Welfare
Cato Institute

Feds and the States Tag-Teaming on Corporate Welfare

Cato Institute

Economic Development Administration Goes ‘Rambo’ on Itself

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The Pentagon as a Jobs Program, Part 3
Cato Institute

The Pentagon as a Jobs Program, Part 3

And the Award for Most Hypocritical Performance by a Member of Congress Goes To…
Cato Institute

And the Award for Most Hypocritical Performance by a Member of Congress Goes To…

GOP

Rubio Blames GOP for Government Dependency

Columns

Duplicative Government Programs Are a Symptom of the Problem

Columns

Awaiting Obama’s Latest Budget Proposal

Columns

Budget Problems Continue in Washington

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Columns

Why I’m Not a Conservative

Columns

Sequestration and Voter Ignorance

Columns

Sequestration: Governors Are a Special Interest Too

Columns

The Areas Affected by Sequestration Should be Cut

Columns

Those Phantom Spending ‘Cuts’ from 2011

Columns

Local Media Fuels Anti-Sequestration Cuts Hysteria

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Columns

Defense Spending Hasn’t Been Cut by $600 Billion

Columns

Sequestration Cuts Will Lead to Floods, Plagues, and Pestilence

Columns

‘Unthinkable, Draconian’ Spending Cuts

Columns

Federal Money to the States Isn’t ‘Free’

Columns

Expect More Pork as Shuster Gets the Transport Gavel

Columns

Report: Sad Federal Employees :(

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Columns

The U.S. Postal Service vs. Greece

Columns

The White House Does a Gary Bettman

Columns

Postal Reform in the Lame Duck?

Columns

Proclaiming Liberty in Central Pennsylvania

Columns

Disaster Response and Federalism

Columns

‘Mediscare’ and the Pennsylvania Senate Race

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Columns

Members of Congress Financially Benefit from Legislation They Support

Columns

Buying Reelection on the Taxpayer’s Dime

Columns

The 50 More Solyndras and Then We’ll Stop Wasting Your Money — Really — We Promise Act

Columns

Enron was Enron Because of Government

Columns

The President’s Utility

Columns

No More Solyndras? Not Quite

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The U.S. Postal Service and the Constitution