national debt
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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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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Who Needs Bipartisanship Without a Budget Constraint?
by Barry Poulson and John Merrifield September 19, 2018In 2018, all federal appropriation bills (with bipartisan support) have passed out of their respective committees.
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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/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/TaxesFeatured
Here’s How State Legislators Can FINALLY Fix The National Debt In 2018
by Jesse Hathaway February 14, 2018Now 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.
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Global debt levels reached an astronomical $217 trillion in the first quarter of 2017.
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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.
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Trump’s “skinny budget” may not be passed into law verbatim, lawmakers should work with the president to do the right thing and keep intact the intent and spirit behind the budget outline.
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Budgets/Taxes
Trump’s Budgetary Blueprint Retains America’s Welfare State
by Richard Ebeling March 21, 2017President Trump has issued his preliminary federal budget proposal looking to next 2018 fiscal year. What it shows very clearly is that there will likely be no attempt to reduce the size and cost of most of the American interventionist-welfare state.
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Once again the United States government is rapidly approaching a fiscal debt ceiling: After March 16, 2017, Uncle Sam will not be legally allowed to borrow any more money to cover its budget deficits, unless Congress votes to raise the debt limit.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedGovernment
Convention Offers Path to Reform
by Jesse Hathaway November 30, 2016Control of the White House is shifting from the hands of President Barack Obama to celebrity television personality Donald Trump, potentially bringing huge reforms to the way the federal government does business.
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EconomicsGovernmentPolitics
New York’s Government Needs To (Re)Learn: You Can’t Spend Your Way To Prosperity
by Seton Motley November 10, 2016President Barack Obama has doubled the national debt – from $10 trillion to $20 trillion. He’s added more debt than all of his forty-three presidential predecessors combined.
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Public opinion polls show that 70% of the public believes the electoral college should be eliminated and replaced by a national popular vote. No change should be made without first understanding why the electoral college was created.