How the Government Can Save $2 Trillion
A serious debate about the federal government’s role is long overdue.
Enough Budget Slashing, Let’s Flip
A powerful solution to state deficits is to invert each state’s tax structure.
Pawlenty’s Tax Proposal Caters to the Richest Americans
He sure knows how to mark an anniversary
Debt Ceiling Kabuki
Trying to hold down the deficit by not raising the debt ceiling is like trying to balance your family budget by deciding not to pay the rent or your mortgage.
Why are we the Tea Party’s Hostages?
Our deficit is manageable if we’re smart about it.
Finally, Obama Leads on the Deficit
In 1993, President Bill Clinton and a Democratic Congress raised taxes and lowered the deficit, at which point the economy took off and produced a budget surplus for the final four years of his presidency.
We Don’t Need to Shut Down the Government: Tax the Wealthy and Deadbeat Corporations to Close Budget Gaps
If corporations and households with $1 million income paid at the same levels they did in 1961, the Treasury would collect an additional $716 billion a year.
85 Percent? How Do You Figure, Mr. Ryan?
After promising his budget proposal would stick closely to the bipartisan deficit reduction commission’s recommendations, his actual blueprint looks like a work of ideological posture of his own creation.
A Government Expense We Would Shut Down: U.S. Trade Representative Office
Obama’s trade representative is trying hard to push approval of deals that the Bush administration negotiated.
Taxes and the Common Good
It’s time to reform our tax system — to quit rewarding obscene wealth, Wall Street gambling, and corporate polluters.
U.S. Military Spending Marches On
How on earth do you get a bipartisan consensus against cuts and for stimulus? Call it the defense budget.
A $700 Billion Dilemma
Borrowing during hard times and making smart investments could boost future productivity and create good jobs.
Crocodile Tears
You have got to be fastidiously responsible and fiscally conservative to afford the occasional gift to the super wealthy.
Compassionate Conservatives
They’re only compassionate when it comes to rich white folks.