Re-posted with the permission of the author Mark Thoma at Maximum Utility. The Budget Deficit Debate: Avoiding the Real Problem I’ve been asked several times how I feel about the…

…analysis of the “Budget Spin” that both sides put out surrounding the release of the President’s Budget. Both sides get very bad grades. Both sides misrepresent facts–neither Democrat nor Republican…

Hegseth’s Department of Defense budget increases by $440.9 billion in planned expenditures. More likely than not, more deficit spending on something which will be obsolete in the near future as…

The National Review scoops the Senate GOP’s next move, and note in particular the last paragraph: Frustrated by the months of non-stop budget fights, Senate Republicans are set to mount…

…Trump and the GOP-run Congress for their massive tax cut directed at the rich, as well as the hypocrisy of the Republicans in so smoothly switching from denouncing budget deficits…

More on the health-care later, but let me be clear: Congressman Paul Ryan’s “plan” is NOT a budget. Budgets show Sources and Uses. As the CBO analysis makes clear, this…

…employment) A Modest Proposal for Jacob Lew: Acknowledge Three Simple Facts about U.S. Fiscal Reality January 15, 2013 by Robert Pollin In a reasonable world, in which we recognized the…

…maybe just reading news accounts from the period between Bush’s announcement of his proposal and the death of that proposal early in 2005. They also can search for reports of…

The ever hopeful infinitely patient Ezra Klein attempts to find good Republican proposals for health care cost control. He notes that the Congressional leadership’s proposal to raise the Medicare eligibility…

I just came across a fellow internet econocrank’s tax proposal, and find it quite interesting — especially its proposed progressive tax on net worth, which echoes the flat tax on…