The town of Evart is home to fewer than 2,000 people — and an airport pointed to as a case study in government waste. Evart Municipal Airport has two flights per day, one runway, zero employees and five "likes" on its Facebook page. Yet, the federal government spent $150,000 on the airport in 2012 while state and local taxpayers spent thousands more. Patrick Hedger, a policy analyst at FreedomWorks, a grassroots, limited-government group, said he thinks the program is a waste of tax dollars. "These ghost airports are a classic economic fallacy in yet another disguise," Hedger said. "It's the...
