Showing posts with label Budgetary Policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Budgetary Policy. Show all posts
Monday, August 3, 2026

The Show-Me State Should Show That Zero Income Tax Can Work in Missouri

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"Eliminate the state income tax" is one of those proposals that sounds like it fits libertarianism like a glove. Personally, I don...
Monday, February 23, 2026

Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump's Tariffs: Why SCOTUS Didn't Add $2.4T to the Debt

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Last Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) announced a much-awaited decision. In a 6-3 ruling, SCOTUS declared that Trump's tariffs un...
Thursday, February 12, 2026

2/12/2026 Hodgepodge: Interest on Debt, Who Pays for Trump's Tariffs, and National Guard Costs

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This has been quite a busy week for me personally. I wanted to make sure that I got in two entries in this week, so I want to give a grab ba...
Thursday, September 18, 2025

Red Ink and Green Cards: How Increasing Immigration Improves the Fiscal Health of the United States

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After the dust settled in the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign, it was a given that immigration was going to be a major topic during Trump...
Thursday, August 14, 2025

Social Security at 90: An Outdated, Broken System Failing Retirees and Betraying Future Generations

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On August 14, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act. With the stroke of his pen, FDR established the Soci...
Monday, July 7, 2025

Big Beautiful Bill Will Result In Big Debt Without the Big Beautiful Economic Growth

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President Trump spent his Fourth of July signing into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), a budget reconciliation bill passed by the...
Thursday, February 20, 2025

DOGE at One Month: Examining Its Tameness on Tackling Government Efficiency

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DOGE . Department of Government Efficiency. What started out as a noncommittal remark by President Trump and a half-serious tweet from bill...
Thursday, December 12, 2024

President Javier Milei Improved Argentina in His First Year as Planet's First Libertarian President

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As much as I love Argentina culturally, its economy has been ruined by nearly eight decades of Peronist government largesse, including garga...
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Monday, July 1, 2024

Making the TCJA Tax Cuts Permanent Is Not the Problem: Out of Control Government Spending Is

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I remember when the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) passed. One of the notable features of TCJA that made me a happy camper was a lower income ...
Thursday, March 28, 2024

CBO 2024 Fiscal Outlook Is Grim: Will the U.S. Government Finally Address Rising Federal Debt?

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Last week, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which is the gold standard of U.S. federal legislative analysis, released its Long-Term Bu...
Monday, August 7, 2023

U.S. Credit Downgrade by Fitch's a Reminder of Deteriorating Fiscal State of Affairs

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The COVID pandemic turned the global economy upside-down. As resilient as the U.S. economy was going into the pandemic, that does not mean t...
Thursday, February 23, 2023

CBO Report Shows Government Spending Is Creating a Fiscal Crisis

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The Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which is the agency responsible for federal budgetary and legislative analysis, released its annual B...
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Should We Reach Our Limit with the Debt Ceiling or with High Levels of Debt?

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Since the pandemic began, the government went on a spending binge for so-called pandemic "relief." That spending is coming home to...
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Tuesday, August 23, 2022

The "Inflation Reduction Act" Will Not Reduce Inflation, But It Will Have Negative Economic Impact

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There is something to be said for the adage "try, try again." In the case of current politics, if you cannot pass the Build Back B...