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Boehner Promises Entitlement Review Naftalia Bendavid and Janet Hook The Wall Street Journal 3/4/2011 WASHINGTON—House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday that he’s determined to offer a budget this spring that curbs Social Security and Medicare, despite the political risks, and that Republicans will try to persuade voters that sacrifices are needed. In an interview with […] March 9th, 2011 | Tags: debt ceiling, Federal budget, federal deficit, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, Speaker John Boehner | Category: Congress, Entitlements, Federal spending, Taxes | Comments are closed
…in the long run, at the rate we’re going, entitlements plus interest would basically be the entire government’s budget, unless you raise taxes considerably… ~Ben Bernanke Bernanke: Get Government Spending Under Control to Spur Economic Growth Today. Fed Chairman also testifies on the need to enact pro-growth tax reform and get […] February 9th, 2011 | Tags: Ben Bernanke, corporate tax code, Debt, federal deficit, Rep. Bill Flores, Rep. Paul Ryan, Rep. Todd Akin | Category: Congress, Department of Education, Economy, Federal Reserve, Federal spending, Health Care, Taxes, Video | Comments are closed
The President says the deficit is the GOP’s problem now. The Wall Street Journal 1/27/2011 Amid his Reaganite sunshine and new admiration for the wonders of private enterprise, President Obama’s political message in Tuesday’s State of the Union address boils down to this: Republicans, it’s your budget problem now. The deficit is awful and must […] January 27th, 2011 | Tags: Congressional Budget Office (CBO), federal deficit, Rep. Paul Ryan, State of the Union Address | Category: Barack Obama, Congress, Entitlements, Federal spending, Politics, Progressives, Taxes, Video | Comments are closed
Nick Gillespie and Veronique de Rugy New York Post 12/26/2010 A value-added tax, a soda tax, a gas tax, banning earmarks, freezing a portion of federal spending at “pre-stimulus” levels — there’s no shortage of ideas being thrown out to fix the country’s disastrous balance sheet, which threatens not just near-term economic recovery but the […] December 27th, 2010 | Tags: Congressional Budget Office (CBO), federal deficit, GDP, National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, national debt | Category: Congress, Economy, Taxes | Comments are closed
Business Insider 12/10/2010 Earlier this year, we posted a chart that illustrated the biggest single political issue of 2010, which revealed the near-complete disconnect that has developed since 2007 between the federal government’s spending and the median income of American households. Today, we’re going to take you deeper into that issue because rectifying that unsustainable […] December 23rd, 2010 | Tags: budget, federal deficit | Category: Federal spending, Taxes | Comments are closed
Rep. Paul Ryan Journal Sentinel [WI] 12/11/2010 …The explosive growth of government casts a shadow over economic activity in this country. Job creators are worried about the massive tax increases that will be required if we don’t address this problem now. Although I support the bipartisan compromise to avoid massive across-the-board tax hikes on Jan. […] December 12th, 2010 | Tags: "A Roadmap for America's Future", federal deficit, opportunity, Rep. Paul Ryan, welfare state | Category: Economy, Entitlements, Federal spending, Government programs, Socialism, Taxes | Comments are closed
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