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Donny Kendal and John Nothdurft are back in episode #164 of the In The Tank Podcast. This week’s episode features work from The Heartland Institute, Manhattan Institute, and the Cato Institute.

Almost all Americans agree that the process to pass a federal budget has become more difficult than scaling Mt. Everest.

In 2018, all federal appropriation bills (with bipartisan support) have passed out of their respective committees.

For generations, one of the great joys in life has been watching Roadrunner cartoons, during which the Roadrunner always manages to find a way to trick Wile E. Coyote into running off a massive cliff.

In 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.

I’m incessantly harangued by pin heads – about everything.

Since 2005, the Congressional Budget Office has published an annual report on the long-term sustainability of U.S. fiscal policies.

President Donald Trump has proposed a trillion-dollar plan for infrastructure investment. 

Now that 2017 is in the books, Americans across the country are working to keep their New Year’s resolutions so that 2018 might be better than years past.

Once again, the financial fears have been ratcheted up due to recent announcements by the U.S. Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) that by the middle of March 2018 the Federal government will have run out of room to continue borrowing due to the official debt ceiling.

The free enterprise, or capitalist, system has done more to improve the material condition of humanity than any other economic arrangement of human cooperation in all of recorded history.

A Grand Bargain would be a restoration of the balance between the federal government, the states, and the people, as it was envisioned in the 10th Amendment to the Constitution.

In Washington, D.C. – the Turkeys are most certainly organized. And have been for s VERY long time. And the American free market economy – is under constant arial assault therefrom.