Tag: Government Spending
Political Class Ignores Expert Warnings About Congress’ Spending Addiction
Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Director Phillip Swagel’s office has been producing a stream of reports, analyses and outlooks, all showing that the federal government’s...
The Feds’ Biggest Ponzi Scheme Yet Revealed
As official Washington gears up for an election year budget season, it’s important to review a few salient, and profoundly inconvenient, facts.
In its report...
Shutdown Drama Reveals Positive Impact Of Gridlock In Washington
While Congress plays its by-now ritualistic game of chicken with government shutdowns, it’s important to back away from the stage players and look at...
Freedom Caucus Leader Attacks Last-Minute Funding Deal
The head of the conservative House Freedom Caucus is aggressively fighting back after leaders in both parties appear to have cobbled together an eleventh...
Government Accountability Falters Again: Who’s Really In Charge?
Can the federal government pass an audit? The standing answer has been “no.” And part of that is because Uncle Sam can’t produce financial...
Washington Keeps Failing To Address Impending Fiscal Cliff
The Government Accountability Office has released a new report saying what ought to be obvious to everyone in official Washington: there is an immediate...
Speaker Johnson Strikes Government Funding Deal, Infuriating Some Republicans
Congressional leaders in both chambers have agreed to a deal on 2024 spending that would avert a government shutdown.
The deal, which must pass Congress,...
Economic Conditions Should Force Both Parties To Reassess Spending Priorities
Evidence that the two major parties are unserious about trimming the major drivers of federal spending – namely, entitlements – comes in a snippet...
Penn Study Reveals Precisely How Long We Have To Save Our Country
We’ve come some distance from the days when the cutting-edge thinking among some economists on the left was that deficits didn’t matter and that...
Why Higher Taxes Will Never Lead To The Desired Outcome
Keeping up with this week’s theme on out-of-control federal spending…the traditional argument from our friends on the left about how to fix our debt...
Congress Is Full Of Unserious People, Starting With This Florida Man
Unserious people doing profoundly silly things is usually fodder for a network sitcom, a buddy flick or possibly a web short. It’s not the...
History’s Most Wasteful Military Spending? Office Decor That’s Fit For Royalty
While we’re on the topic of the Department of Defense and how it spends all those hundreds of billions of dollars every year…it looks...
‘Bidenomics’ – US National Debt Passes $33 Trillion For First Time
ANALYSIS – In case some readers weren’t sure, this is a big reason the conservative GOP ‘Freedom Caucus’ is threatening a government shutdown. Thanks...
Diving Into The Election Issue Everyone’s Neglecting
The biggest election issue for 2024 is getting even bigger. It’s the federal deficit, which is expected to balloon to $2 trillion at the...
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