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Record and Near Record U.S. Deficits


Tuesday December 14th, 2010   •   Posted by Craig Eyermann at 8:18am PST   •   0 Comments

The Associated Press’ Martin Crutsinger reports: The federal budget deficit rose to $150.4 billion last month, the largest November imbalance on record….. The Treasury Department says the November budget deficit was 25 percent higher than the $120.3 billion deficit in November 2009. Meanwhile, the Congressional Budget Office: offered this comment on the previous fiscal…
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Obamacare Is Ruled Unconstitutional by U.S. District Judge


Monday December 13th, 2010   •   Posted by David Theroux at 11:19pm PST   •   2 Comments

In a stunning decision released today, U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson in Richmond, Virginia, has ruled that Obama’s health-care law passed earlier this year is unconstitutional. The Obama administration now plans to appeal the case to the U. S. Supreme Court, and here is a report from Bloomberg: The Obama administration’s requirement that…
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Deficits Are Future Taxes


Monday December 13th, 2010   •   Posted by Emily Skarbek at 8:42am PST   •   5 Comments

According to Michael Munger, the recent proposals by the deficit commission are DAFT. DAFT is short for “deficits are future taxes” and is a useful analogy to counter the political myths about debt and taxation. “With a total debt of more than $13 trillion, our government is in the midst of forcing the largest…
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U.S. Deficit Hits Record: $150.4 Billion in November—26th Straight Deficit Month


Friday December 10th, 2010   •   Posted by David Theroux at 9:19pm PST   •   0 Comments

In the Wall Street Journal, Jeff Bater reports in “U.S. Posts $150.4 Billion November Budget Deficit,” that federal red ink is reaching an all-time record: The U.S. government ran its 26th straight monthly budget deficit in November amid wrangling over a package that would extend big tax cuts to Americans trying to recover from…
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What Costs $919 Billion But Isn’t Likely to Create Many Jobs?


Wednesday December 8th, 2010   •   Posted by Craig Eyermann at 6:55am PST   •   6 Comments

Could the answer to this question be the just announced tax deal and the so-called “doc fix“? Here are the arguments that might be made for why these two separate actions by the lame duck 111th U.S. Congress might have succeeded in spiking the job market in 2011. First, we’ll consider the tax bill…
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Obama “Pay Freeze”: 1.1 Million Federal Employees to Receive $2.5 Billion in Raises


Monday December 6th, 2010   •   Posted by David Theroux at 7:03pm PST   •   8 Comments

The Federal Times reports in “Federal pay freeze plan wouldn’t stop raises” that President Obama’s claimed, 2-year “pay freeze” does nothing of the sort, but instead will result in 1.1 million employees receiving from 2.6 to 3.3 percent increases in wages or more than $2.5 billion in pay raises. (Military and legislative branch personnel…
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Why the U.S. Spending Stimulus Has Failed


Sunday December 5th, 2010   •   Posted by David Theroux at 1:54pm PST   •   1 Comment

In a new article in the Wall Street Journal, “Why the Spending Stimulus Failed: New economic research shows why lower tax rates do far more to spur growth,” Stanford University economist Michael Boskin examines how and why the U.S.’s $814 billion economic stimulus has failed. For many years now, Independent Institute Senior Fellow Robert…
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A Capital Hill Compromise?


Friday December 3rd, 2010   •   Posted by Emily Skarbek at 5:05am PST   •   0 Comments

The Washington Post reports that the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform has come up with a plan to address the nation’s fiscal house of cards. The major points of the plan include: Deficit reductions by nearly $4 trillion over the next decade Large reductions in discretionary spending Tax code reform He hits…
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Federal Reserve Used Trillions of Dollars for Secret Bailout of U.S. and Foreign Firms


Friday December 3rd, 2010   •   Posted by David Theroux at 2:01am PST   •   5 Comments

In shocking new disclosures, the Washington Post has reported in an article, “Fed aid in financial crisis went beyond U.S. banks to industry, foreign firms,” that in 2008 and 2009 the Federal Reserve created trillions of dollars in corporate welfare as secret bailouts “not just to Wall Street but also to motorcycle makers, telecom…
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