Craig Eyermann | Wednesday April 3, 2019 at 3:10 PM PDT
Federal spending hits highest level since bank bailout and Obama stimulus.
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Tag: federal deficit
Craig Eyermann | Monday January 7, 2019 at 12:05 PM PDT
An excuse to raise taxes on the American people.
Craig Eyermann | Thursday November 15, 2018 at 2:10 PM PDT
Treasury department’s new graphic helps explain deficit.
Craig Eyermann | Wednesday October 3, 2018 at 9:00 AM PDT
Federal Student Loan program driving national debt.
Craig Eyermann | Monday July 23, 2018 at 12:03 PM PDT
Not fully paying for themselves nor “exploding” the deficit.
Josh Kaplan | Monday October 4, 2010 at 8:27 AM PDT
Dr. Emily Skarbek, Director of the Government Cost Calculator was interviewed on the nationally syndicated radio program, “The Jason Lewis Show” (Premiere Radio Networks). In the program, Dr. Skarbek uses MyGovCost.org to explain the specific effects of rampant government spending on the personal situation for any individual in America. [audio:2010_09_29_skarbek_lewis.mp3] Download audio file (18...
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Randall G. Holcombe | Friday October 1, 2010 at 7:15 AM PDT
October 1 is the beginning of the federal government’s 2011 fiscal year. Congress has not passed a budget, and it appears likely that one won’t be passed until January. The government that wants to take over and run your health care (and other aspects of your life) can’t even pass its own budget. One...
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David J. Theroux | Wednesday February 3, 2010 at 11:29 PM PDT
The Wall Street Journal reports that as if the recent Senate election in Massachusetts never happened (or perhaps because of it?), President Barack Obama’s budgets for 2010 and 2011 will push federal government spending up to gigantic new levels: The budget reveals that overall federal outlays will reach $3.72 trillion in fiscal 2010, and...
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Randall G. Holcombe | Thursday July 9, 2009 at 11:06 AM PDT
Warren Buffett says the economy is not recovering and we might need a second stimulus package to turn things around. In other words, what we did before isn’t working, so let’s do it again. Insanity has sometimes been described as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. When George W....
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William F. Shughart II | Wednesday June 24, 2009 at 7:52 AM PDT
Unprecedented budget deficits at the local, state and federal levels of government should not be cause for despair, but rather taken advantage of to force the public sector to confine itself to its constitutionally delegated powers. In last Thursday’s (June 18, 2009) Orange County Register, columnist Shawn Steel jumped on a bandwagon I’ve been...
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