Military spending

    By Rich Smith, The Motley Fool

    | 6:00AM 3/22/2012
    America is $15.5 trillion dollars in the red. So why is the Pentagon buying military hardware that no one wants or needs?

    By Kelly Phillips Erb

    | 2:00PM 8/18/2010
    Thurs., Aug. 19 marks this year's "Cost of Government Day." The date, calculated by the Americans for Tax Reform, signals when the average American finishes paying off his or her respective share of federal, state and local taxes, and the cost of implementing government regulations. This year, that...