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Still a Bottomless Pit IV
by E. L. Core
by E. L. Core on Oct 15, 2017 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice, The Economy 
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Tag: "deficit spending"
Still a Bottomless Pit III
by E. L. Core
by E. L. Core on Dec 30, 2016 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice, The Economy
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Still a Bottomless Pit II
by E. L. Core
by E. L. Core on Oct 18, 2015 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice, The Economy
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Still a Bottomless Pit
by E. L. Core
by E. L. Core on Nov 04, 2014 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice, The Economy
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Bottomless Pit: Interest Paid on the Federal Debt
by E. L. Core
A number you never see on the nightly news.
An Historical Aside on the Debt Ceiling
by E. L. Core
The Confederation Congress could not tax, but it could borrow.
Gradually, Then Suddenly
by G. Tracy Mehan, III
It is not often that one sees Ernest Hemingway cited in an article on the federal budget and fiscal situation. But that is what GOP House Budget Chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), ranking member of the Senate Committee, did in a recentWashington Post op-ed on President Obama’s last budget of his first term. […]
It’s the Spending, Stupid: A Crucial Historical Look at Federal Spending
by Dr. Paul Kengor
We have failed to heed the lessons of economic history, with terrible consequences for our economy and country. And the most crucial of those lessons, particularly since the start of LBJ’s Great Society, is this: deficits have been caused not by a lack of income-tax increases but by recession and, most of all, by excessive […]
It’s Not About the Money; It’s About the Killing!
by Mary Kochan
Okay, so the government is about to shut down. Partially. Good. Because if we don’t stop the killing of innocents in the womb inthis country, if we don’t at least show our Almighty and Most Holy and Just God, that we are seriously willing to bear some cost, some pain, or at least some inconvenience […]
