spending
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EconomicsFeatured
Big Gov, Big Banks and Debt-to-GDP: We Little Guys Are Screwed
by Seton Motley July 27, 2022It’s a Big world. We Little Guys are just (barely) living in it – for now. Our nation’s Big Governments – are HUGE.
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By magically “forgiving” potentially billions of dollars in loan debt, Biden ignores the fact that these loans won’t disappear. The cost of the loans will be socialized to more people, e.g., many poor and working-class taxpayers, essentially more new government spending. Joe’s plan is bald-faced political pandering.
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EconomicsFeatured
Interest Rate Hikes: Gov Making Loans MUCH Harder to Get – Poorest Hardest Hit
by Seton Motley April 29, 2022The government and Fed are over a barrel. The federal debt is now over $30 trillion. But the Fed’s only way to address runaway inflation? Raising interest rates.
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EconomicsFeatured
Omnibus: The Avalanches of DC Money Are All Problems – No Solutions
by Seton Motley March 15, 2022Can we guess who will get the lion’s share of all of this DC money? DC’s biggest cronies, of course.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedUncategorized
Can Tax Cheats Fund Biden’s Spending?
by Daniel Sutter October 23, 2021Banks are shouldering a cost burden towards regulatory compliance that could be used to fund Biden’s spending plans.
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EconomicsFeatured
Biden’s Demagoguery that Government Spending is Costless
by Richard Ebeling October 6, 2021Biden’s money printing spree enabled by the Federal Reserve will have drastic long-term consequences.
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ConstitutionEducationGovernmentPolitics
The Immense Education “Investment” Fraud
by Larry Sand May 5, 2021Unprecedented federal spending on education is a swindle of epic proportions.
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EconomicsFeaturedGovernmentPolitics
America’s Fiscal Follies are Dangerously in the Red
by Richard Ebeling September 8, 2020The Congressional Budget Office has recently issued a federal “Budget Outlook Update”
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Today bigger, supremely powerful global governments are justified by environmental claims.
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Budgets/Taxes
Texas Lawmakers Looking to Cut Taxes Should Control Spending First
by Joe Barnett June 13, 2019Cutting taxes — as opposed to restraining the growth in future tax increases or swapping a reduction in property taxes for an increase in the state sales tax — appears to be a nearly insurmountable obstacle.
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EducationFeatured
Uneducated: Why American Education Is Fundamentally Flawed
by Liam Sigler January 8, 2019Mediocrity has become normalized and institutionalized.
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If only I had a dime for every time I have heard the claim America needs to spend more money on education.
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsEnvironment/EnergyFeaturedPodcastTaxes
In The Tank (ep92) – NC’s PURPA Solar Struggles, Privatizing Air Traffic Control, and OK Budget Battle
by Donald Kendal June 9, 2017John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #92 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the John Locke Foundation, the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, and the Cato Institute.