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Honest accounting and deficits matter? Real change?

…out warnings and hope something sticks? What are they tossing…mud, hopefully. Time quotes McCain on the new budget: “The Congressional Budget Office report proves that the Administration has indeed engaged…

Do Economists Agree about Microeconomics ?

…10% of the federal budget to 5%. Foreign aid is currently about 1% of the federal budget so the respondents wanted to cut it to five times the current level….

Another way not to pay for Social Security

…her Social Security disability case. The Social Security Administration (SSA)—which touches the lives of virtually every American—was once touted as the preeminent can-do agency. But budget cuts, staff reductions and…

Snow Must Go

…Josh Bolton said on July 14, 2005: Since last February, when we released the 2006 Budget, the Nation’s fiscal outlook has improved dramatically. The U.S. budget deficit is falling, and…

The True Fiscal Nightmare

…funded from the rest of the budget, and because the purpose of this exercise is to focus on the future imbalances in the rest of the federal budget, which dwarf…

Another Commission

…Congressional Budget Office. “Comparing Budgetary and Trust Fund Measures of the Outlook for Social Security and Medicare“, Congressional Budget Office. …among numerous, numerous others. When will it actually be time…

Snow’s Garbage on the Deficit

…letting tax breaks expire, Treasury Secretary John Snow said Tuesday. “You’ll see the administration press awfully hard to contain spending,” Snow told reporters at a briefing. The administration’s budget proposal