To save Medicare, Social Security, admit they are failures
If you want to save entitlements in the long-term, we have to stop calling them entitlements. We have to admit that Medicare and Social Security are failures — fiscal failures. Once our leaders can...
View ArticleThe payroll tax cut needs to end
“Do you want to know what lives longer than a vampire?” … “What?” … “A one-year tax cut.” OK, I know it’s not great humor, but at least it’s wry humor. How can one not at least chuckle at the sight of...
View ArticleObama, Democrats want to tether middle class to more reliance on government
The president of hope and change had some harsh words for the only serious budget proposal out there. He called Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget plan, which outlines a fiscal austerity plan that includes...
View ArticleMore pressure is on Obama with the fiscal cliff negotiations
There seems to be an assumption that with the fiscal cliff debate, President Barack Obama has the upper hand and that Republicans are under pressure to cave to the president’s demands for $250K-plus,...
View ArticleFAA reversal on “sequester cuts” likely ends the scare tactics
I’ve seen comments and cartoons casting the reversal of the FAA air traffic controller cuts — which were supposedly due to sequestration, or the process of trimming a couple percent or so from federal...
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