debt
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ConstitutionEconomicsGovernmentPolitics
Inflation Is a Dangerous Way to Get Rid of Debt Burdens
by Richard Ebeling June 1, 2021Joe Biden’s proposed $6 trillion budget for fiscal year 2022, will include a budget deficit of $1.6 trillion, or almost one-third of planned government spending.
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ConstitutionEconomicsGovernmentPoliticsRegulation
Scientific Survey Shows Voters Across the Political Spectrum Are Ideologically Deluded
by James Agresti April 16, 2021The survey, commissioned by Just Facts, reveals that the vast bulk of voters have embraced false and harmful dogmas that accord with their political views.
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It seems that every generation or two, fundamental economic ideas are questioned and challenged.
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsEnvironment/EnergyFeaturedPodcastTaxes
In The Tank (ep181) – Illinois Progressive Tax Scheme, Cali County Bans Solar Farm, Gov Steals Dog over Tax Debt
by Donald Kendal March 8, 2019Heartland’s Donald Kendal, and Justin Haskins are joined by Isaac Orr, Policy Fellow at the Center of the American Experiment, in episode #181 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s episode features work from the Illinois Policy Institute, Americans for Prosperity, the Manhattan Institute, and the Foundation for Economic Education.
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Budgets/Taxes
Congress Must Reform Its Budget Process, But Not Like This
by Barry Poulson November 1, 2018Almost all Americans agree that the process to pass a federal budget has become more difficult than scaling Mt. Everest.
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EconomicsFeatured
When Will the Music Stop? No One Knows, But When It Does the Bill to Taxpayers Will Be Huge
by Todd Gabel October 8, 2018It has been said that economists have predicted “nine of the last five recessions,” or words to that effect, suggesting that the “dismal science” can’t be trusted.
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Budgets/Taxes
Is a Financial Crisis Inevitable?
by Barry Poulson and John Merrifield August 23, 2018How debt is shaping up to be our undoing.
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Budgets/Taxes
$1 Trillion Deficits and the Crisis of the Entitlement State
by Richard Ebeling August 10, 2018In case you have missed them since the early years of the Obama administration, the $1 trillion-a-year federal budget deficits are coming back, beginning with Uncle Sam’s new fiscal year for 2019, which starts on October 1, 2018. And they might not be going away anytime soon.
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Greece is on the verge of settling the repayment of its bailout loans from the International Monetary Fund, European banks and other creditors.
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Budgets/Taxes
Tied to the Mast: Connecticut Imposes a ‘Debt Brake’
by Barry Poulson and John Merrifield July 12, 2018In Homer’s Odyssey, sailors are lured to the rocky shores of an island by an irresistible siren song. To prevent his ship from succumbing to the song, Odysseus orders his sailors to fill their ears with wax and tie him to the ship’s mast.
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Budgets/Taxes
Closing The Debt-Driven Fiscal Gap Just Got A Lot Harder
by Barry Poulson and John Merrifield April 24, 2018Since 2005, the Congressional Budget Office has published an annual report on the long-term sustainability of U.S. fiscal policies.
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Budgets/TaxesGovernment
An Alternative to Federal Infrastructure Investment
by Barry Poulson February 20, 2018President Donald Trump has proposed a trillion-dollar plan for infrastructure investment.
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Budgets/Taxes
How Millennials Can Help Reduce The Federal Deficit
by Lindsey Stroud December 12, 2017Since February 2017, the federal deficit has grown by more than $500 billion, to over $20 trillion. The average debt owed per person is now estimated to be greater than $62,000.