Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Podcast
Steve Stanek says the most recent federal budget deal is meaningless! It’s a scam, a sham, a fraud! Congress hasn’t had an actual budget since 2009, and they barely have one now.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Politics
Calling the Ryan-Murray budget deal “A Huge Republican Cave-In” is not accurate.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Politics
The latest federal budget deal amounts to saving two days of spending over the next decade. A sliver of a sliver of savings.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Politics
Paul Ryan gives GOP a short-term win. But has the “Stupid Party” snatched defeat from the jaws of victory … again?
“The federal government spends approximately $10 billion a day, so they’re trying to make a big deal out of saving two days of spending.”
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Politics
This is a true Tea Party agenda that should be the Republican agenda, and the true American Kennedy Democrat agenda.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Politics
Small minded prisoners of the status quo, are you ready to think outside the box, for freedom and prosperity for all?
The balance of what’s possible with what the base wants is a delicate thing, and Republican leadership sure hasn’t figured out how to achieve it. That Bismarck line about politics being the art of the possible is being bandied about a lot lately… But I’ve always had a problem with it, because I think it ignores the reality of modern political tactics.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Politics
The dramatic contrast between the results of Obama’s policies and Reagan’s policies have already resolved the debate our current president is having talking to himself on his “economic tour.”
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Politics
President Obama tells us in the Overview to his Fiscal Year 2014 Budget just released last week that his budget proposes, “more than $2 in spending cuts for every $1[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Health Care · Politics
The biggest fallacy regarding Social Security is that it would be easier politically to cut Social Security benefits rather than to fundamentally reform the way the program works, so as[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Politics
Recent Republican budget proposals have cut taxes on the rich and asked the middle class to pick up the tab? When was the last time any Republican proposed to increase taxes on the middle class?
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[...]
President Obama told America the morning of February 19 that if the sequester goes through on March 1: “It will eviscerate job-creating investments in education and energy and medical research….[...]
President Reagan famously said “Government is not the answer to the problem. Government IS the problem.” But keeping with his unwavering theme as the unrelenting opposite of Reagan in every[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics · Taxes
Conservatives are still glum about the election, and the upper hand President Obama seems to have over Republicans. But the political stage has been framed far worse for conservatives and[...]
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 · Economics · Politics
Neither President Obama nor any other Democrat ever proposed any middle class tax cut in the fiscal cliff negotiations. All that was ever discussed is continuation of the same middle[...]
In a blog I used to write for regularly before joining Heartland, I used to specialize in take-downs of Peggy Noonan. Bless her heart, but she never really got Barack Obama, and[...]
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