All Posts Tagged With: "Federal Budget"
About that Spending Freeze
“Starting in 2011, we are prepared to freeze government spending for three years.” –Barack Obama All spending? What about the military? Okay, all spending, except the military. What about the FBI? Okay, all spending except the military and the FBI. What about the CIA? Okay, all spending except the military, the FBI, and the CIA. [...]
28Jan2010 | Sheldon Richman | 2 comments | ContinuedWhat does spending “freeze” mean anyway?
Update: See also Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch for a healthy dose of reality. First I think we have to agree that a discretionary spending freeze would be a step in the right direction. If Obama follows through on this promise we should be willing to pat him on the back, “good job old chap!” [...]
26Jan2010 | Mike Van Winkle | 3 comments | ContinuedThe Tax Code: Now That’s Outrageous!
If you’ve ever had the sinking suspicion that many in the mainstream media just don’t get it, then the September 2002 issue of Reader’s Digest was just for you. In its pages, conservative columnist Tucker Carlson penned his mighty attack on American business under the title “Artful Dodgers,” in the “That’s Outrageous!” department of the [...]
1Dec2002 | Scott McPherson | 0 comments | ContinuedIt’s Not Over Till It’s Over
“Year after year in Washington, budget debates seem to come down to an old, tired argument: on one side, those who want more government, regardless of the cost; on the other, those who want less government, regardless of the need. “We should leave those arguments to the last century and chart a different course.” —President [...]
1Jun2001 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedRed-Lining the Federal Government Budget
Dr. Timberlake is professor of economics emeritus at the University of Georgia, Athens. Throughout the United States, millions of households and business firms routinely balance their annual expenditures with their annual incomes. They look aghast and uncomprehendingly at a federal government that has not balanced its budget in the last 25 years, while its debt—the [...]
1Nov1996 | Richard H. Timberlake | 0 comments | Continued-
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