Feds Created Over 1,000 New Subsidies Since 1990

The number of federal subsidy programs in the U.S. has skyrocketed since 1990, according to a chart published Thursday by the libertarian Cato Institute. Cato concluded that the number of federal subsidy programs has almost doubled from 1,176 in 1990 to 2,282 in 2014. The number of federal subsidy programs has almost doubled since 1990, reaching…