All Posts Tagged With: "budget"
Saving the Warfare-Welfare State
The problem in Washington isn’t excessive partisanship but excessive unity.
15Apr2011 | Sheldon Richman | 27 comments | ContinuedGovernment Windfall
TARP was expected to lose $300 billion plus change. Yesterday the government said it would lose “only” $100 billion plus change. (Story here.)In the government’s accounting, that’s a windfall of $200 billion, which is now available for new spending.Alice would have felt at home in Washington.
8Dec2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued-
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