All Posts Tagged With: "budget surplus"
Our Presidents and the National Debt
Burton Folsom, Jr. is the Charles Kline Professor in History and Management at Hillsdale College. His book The Myth of the Robber Barons is in its fourth edition. During the last 75 years the United States has failed to balance its annual budget over 90 percent of the time. What’s worse, the government has spent money [...]
1Aug2006 | Burton W. Folsom Jr. | 44 comments | ContinuedPotomac Principles
Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books, including Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. Potomac Principles: Institutional Immortality, Washington Style “Don’t count on your budget surplus before the check clears.” That should be this year’s motto [...]
1Jun1998 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | Continued-
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