Showing posts with label Entitlements. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Entitlements. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Budget Discord Simmers on the Left

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Democrats aren't serious about reducing the national debt, and they never will be. At the Wall Street Journal, " Some Liberal Gro...
Monday, June 3, 2013

How Will U.S. Fund Entitlements?

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At IBD, " Social Security Report Alarming; But D.C. Calm ": Disability beneficiaries face steep cuts in just three years under c...
Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Capitalism and Inequality

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I thought this was going to be another mindless partisan hatchet job on free market economics, but I was wrong. It's a thoughtful piece ...
Friday, February 1, 2013

Federal Spending Set to Climb Nearly 2 Percent This Year

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At IBD, " Austerity? Federal Spending Set to Climb 2% This Year ": In the wake of Wednesday's news that the economy contr...
Saturday, January 12, 2013

Prop. 13 Tax Restraints Targeted for Attack by California Legislators

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I blogged on this in November, after it became clear that the Democrats would have a super-majority in the legislature. See IBD, " Pr...
Friday, January 4, 2013

Watters' World In Hawaii

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This is good.
Saturday, December 22, 2012

Firm Hired to Overhaul California's State Government Payroll in 'Over its Head' and 'May Be Unable to Reach its Goal'

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It's utterly asthounding, the amount of money burned up by the endlessly voracious bureaucratic entitlement state. But California keeps ...
Friday, December 7, 2012

Obama's Fiscal Cliff: It's Nothing But a Power Play

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From Charles Krauthammer, at the Washington Post ": Let’s understand President Obama’s strategy in the “fiscal cliff” negotiations. I...

Social Security Will Boost Debt by 18 Percent of GDP in Just Twenty Years

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At IBD, " Social Security to Up Debt By 18% of GDP In 20 Years ": Since 2007, Social Security has gone from running an $81 billi...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012

When Work is Punished

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From Tyler Durden, " The Tragedy of America's Welfare State ." Exactly two years ago, some of the more politically biased pr...