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Rather than lie about inflation, people in government should declare the truth: The government cannot sustain these entitlement programs as they are structured, so they’re going to be cut.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Education · Environment/Energy · Featured
President Barack Obama released his 2014 budget proposal, which would spend $3.8 trillion. The budget contains a tax hike of some $800 billion, including a requirement that “millionaires” pay at[...]
I’m scanning headlines on the Internet. I see President Obama has announced he’ll agree to cut Social Security and other benefit programs in exchange for higher taxes. I think, “Take[...]
The competing budgets released last week by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-WA) definitively define the growing differences between the two[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics · Taxes
President Obama said at his increasingly notorious press conference on Monday, “America cannot afford another debate with this Congress about whether or not they should pay the bills they have[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Politics · Taxes
Fundamental, structural, entitlement reforms, proven to work in the real world, would provide far better benefits for seniors and the poor, while slashing future entitlement spending. Indeed, over the long[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Politics · Taxes
John Boehner is a good man in a hard place. He has served in public office as a lifelong conservative, not a RINO. His position on the Obama tax increases[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Health Care · Politics
[First posted at Forbes.] Steve Moore begins his brilliant new book, Who’s the Fairest of Them All? The Truth About Opportunity, Taxes and Wealth In America, quoting President Obama saying: We’ve sought[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics · Taxes
[First published at The American Spectator.] It seems like everyone is piling on my college friend Grover Norquist because they can’t wait to abandon the tax pledge not to raise[...]
On Saturday, Peter Ferrara, a senior fellow for entitlement and budget policy at The Heartland Institute, was a guest on Larry Kudlow’s nationally syndicated radio show. Kudlow explained that he[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Health Care · Politics
[First posted at Forbes] DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz described the Medicare reforms proposed by GOP Vice-Presidential nominee and House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) as “literally a death[...]
Education · Health Care · Politics
[Published at Investors Business Daily, September 26] When we talk about recipients of entitlements, we are typically referring to either of two kinds of Americans: the poor and the elderly.[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Politics · Taxes
Merrill Matthews, a resident scholar at the Institute for Policy Innovation and a policy advisor for The Heartland Institute, argues Mitt Romney has no reason to apologize for his comments[...]
[First posted at Ricochet.] Yesterday on Twitter I had a small discussion with the New York Times‘ Ross Douthat about an aside he had in a recent piece about Medicaid. Douthat was skeptical[...]
Former President George W. Bush policy guru Pete Wehner is very disappointed in these increasingly heartless Republicans. Earlier this month, the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press released a[...]
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