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Trash Talk from the New York Times
The Budget Committee of the House of Representatives has just issued a report “The War on Poverty: 50 Years Later”, providing an excellent summary of federal antipoverty programs and their cost at...
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How to Improve America’s Welfare System
Several months ago I had a post entitled “A Balanced and Sensible Antipoverty program,” describing four characteristics of effective antipoverty programs: work requirements, work incentives,...
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It’s Time to Bite the Bullet and Set up a Balanced Budget Plan
As a result of the 2014 elections, both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate are controlled by Republicans. The House Budget Committee and the Senate Budget Committee are now gearing up to...
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How the Obama and Republican Budgets Compare
The Budget Committees for both the House of Representatives and the Senate have now passed plans to achieve balanced budgets within a ten year period. My last two posts have discussed the compelling...
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Status Quo on the Budget Is Not Good Enough!
As I like to remind readers, I am a non-ideological fiscal conservative. I am not hard core anything. I just want to find practical, workable solutions for difficult and complicated problems....
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An Open Letter to Representative Brad Ashford
You’re off to a great start in Congress! You’ve clearly established that you’re independent minded and that you vote your conscience. I expected that you would act in this way and that is why I...
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The Republican Budgets Focus on Entitlement Savings
Last week, both the House and the Senate passed ten year budget plans which would bring the federal budget into balance by 2025. I have devoted several recent blog posts to discussing these budget...
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Resolving the Current Budget Impasse in Congress
Congress is facing two critical fiscal deadlines in the very near future. Our current debt ceiling of $18.1 trillion will be exceeded by November 4. A temporary 2016 budget was passed that will fund...
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The Budget Deal: A Win for the Big Spenders
A tentative budget deal has just been reached by Congress and the President to 1) suspend the debt limit until March 2017, and 2) loosen the budget sequester caps by $112 billion over the next two...
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Why I Lean Republican
In the midst of a tumultuous presidential campaign season, it iscommon for partisans of the left and the right to question the integrity, motives and values of those on the other side of the...
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Solving America’s Most Basic Problems
My last two posts, here and here, argue that America’s two most critical problems are: Speeding up economic growth in order to create more jobs and better paying jobs, especially for middle- and...
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The House Budget vs the President’s Budget: Another Reason for a Balanced...
In January I had several posts advocating in favor of a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Briefly, the argument runs as follows: Our public debt (on which we pay interest) is now...
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Why I Am Optimistic about President Trump
I voted for Hillary Clinton last November. Not because I liked her program. I was voting against Donald Trump. He is crude, sleazy and a terrible narcissist. I preferred John Kasich, Governor of...
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