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Pay your dues

Reader T-bone states the theory well: (lifted from comments cactus style) The bottom 50% are seeing no increase in real income while the dollar falls and their costs rise. Fiscal

About funding education

…$34.9 Billion. Harvard University’s endowment earned a 23.0 percent return during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007. From fiscal 2001 to fiscal 2007, for example, scholarships and awards to…

On State Spending

…state officials moaned that they were innocent victims of a fiscal crisis. They responded by hiking taxes and clamoring for more aid from Washington. Only a few years into the…

Did Someone Say Spending Restraint?

…back above $400 billion for the fiscal year that ends in September, reversing the improvements of 2005, a White House official told reporters yesterday. But some budget analysts cautioned that…

The Irish Economic Miracle and Tax Policy

…and capital markets have kept the boom going with no increase in inflation until late 1999. The extended noninflationary response also owes much to Irish fiscal discipline, consensus-based wage moderation,…

Bill Thomas Defends Permanent Tax Cuts

The National Review gives Congressman Thomas space to defend fiscal irresponsibility: When it comes to financial security, “continuity and certainty” are important to America’s households. They are equally important for…

Al “not Glenn” Hubbard Addresses the Press

…Bush43’s fiscal fiasco has debt growing faster than GDP, which is not going to change until this Administration dramatically changes its fiscal stance. Kash provides a very nice historical context…