Tag: "Federal budget"

Washington - Capitol - Mall - Monument
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Congress Makes History

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I honestly didn’t think I’d ever live to see it.

Department of Defense
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Restructuring the Department of Defense

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Fiscally responsible force. I like the sound of that.

Ronald Reagan Lecture
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Obama Should Study the History of Reaganomics

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Obama’s and Reagan’s policies for economic recovery were completely different.

Bottomless Pit: Interest Paid on the Federal Debt
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Bottomless Pit: Interest Paid on the Federal Debt

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A number you never see on the nightly news.

Alexander Hamilton Quote
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An Historical Aside on the Debt Ceiling

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The Confederation Congress could not tax, but it could borrow.

Social Security Trust Fund
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SSA: Say What?

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Who’s zooming whom?

Broken Piggy Bank
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The Path To Prosperity Or Bankruptcy? Staggering Facts On America’s Rising Debt

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Real government spending has increased almost twice as fast as government revenue.

Cutting Taxes
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Tax Cuts and Deficits: Fact vs. Fiction

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The main reason for most deficits: excessive spending.

Cutting Taxes
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The Progressive Crusade Against Tax Cuts

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FDR, for the record, despised Andrew Mellon.

We Need to Stop Eating the Marshmallows
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We Need to Stop Eating the Marshmallows

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It seems there might be a lesson here for America.

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Meet Mr. and Mrs. Sequester

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The Sequesters — John and Jane — have been married for eight years. They aren’t Hollywood Stars, professional athletes, or nightly-news anchors, so they’re not exactly multi-millionaires. John does have a good job, though. His employer’s business in recent years has been growing, and John has gotten an eight- or ten-percent raise every year for […]

Learning to Love Sequestration
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Learning to Love Sequestration

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Paul Ryan says it’s going to happen, the sequestration, that is. One can hardly imagine any alternative scenario, in which Democrats and Republicans work it all out, and come out singing Kumbaya with a deal to avert the workings of the automatic cuts, share and share alike, to domestic and defense discretionary spending. Certainly, it would be better a) […]

Catholic Bishops Wade Into Budget Debate
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Catholic Bishops Wade Into Budget Debate

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As Congress struggles to balance our out-of-control federal budget, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has officially put its oar into the debate. In an open letter to congress, the USCCB (along with Catholic Relief Services), told federal budget-crunchers exactly what programs they thought should be sliced from the budget. And, (surprise surprise) […]