Budget Deficit

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2016: Obama's America

Dinesh D'Souza makes a powerful but ultimately unpersuasive case against the president.

Tim Cavanaugh | 8.24.2012 1:30 PM

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Why the CBO's Good News is Still Bad News

Another dispatch from the budgepocalypse.

Peter Suderman | 8.23.2012 1:30 PM

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States Use Budget Gimmicks and Accounting Tricks to Evade Balanced Budget Requirements

Peter Suderman | 7.18.2012 3:50 PM

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FBI: Zimmerman Not Racist, Occupy Riot in L.A., Anybody Serious About the Deficit?: P.M. Links

Scott Shackford | 7.13.2012 4:30 PM

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San Bernardino Files for Bankruptcy; Staff Had Been Concealing Deficit Spending for Years

Scott Shackford | 7.11.2012 12:38 PM

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42 Straight Months of Stupidly Optimistic Official Predictions About Economic Recovery

Once-a-month quotes from the Obama administration and the media about how the economy will be booming any minute now.

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.27.2012 4:30 PM

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As Pension Bombs Explode, California's Budget Masters Cross Fingers for Tax Increase Vote

Scott Shackford | 6.27.2012 1:41 PM

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Good News! This Year's Deficit Will Only Hit $1.17 Trillion

Peter Suderman | 6.13.2012 5:15 PM

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California Unions Sue to Prevent Pension Reforms as Citizens Turn Against Them

Scott Shackford | 6.6.2012 1:19 PM

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The CBO's Latest Long-Term Budget Outlook: Budgepocalypse Now, Budgepocalypse Forever

Peter Suderman | 6.5.2012 5:10 PM

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Scott Walker's Recall Is Not About Wisconsin

Shikha Dalmia | 6.1.2012 2:57 PM

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If There's a Debt Crisis, Why Is Government Debt Golden?

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.30.2012 4:59 PM

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Honor 9/11 Victims by Helping California Fight Livestock Diseases (and Pay State Employees)!

Scott Shackford | 5.29.2012 12:15 PM

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A Tale of Two Deficits

Matthew Feeney | 5.27.2012 7:13 PM

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Is It Even Possible to Lower Property Assessments "Improperly"?

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.25.2012 2:13 PM

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Reason-Rupe: Wisconsinites Favor Increasing Public Union Retirement Contributions to Address Budget Deficit

Emily Ekins | 5.25.2012 1:00 PM

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Reason-Rupe: Wisconsinites Favor Increasing Public Union Retirement Contributions to Address Budget Deficit

Emily Ekins | 5.25.2012 1:00 PM

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Andrew Sullivan Nominates Tim Cavanaugh for Trig Palin Award

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.24.2012 3:30 PM

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California Fixing to Have to Pimp-Slap Cities to Get Redevelopment Funds Back

Scott Shackford | 5.24.2012 12:08 PM

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Are California Rail Authorities Looking to Cover Their Tracks with Email Purge?

Scott Shackford | 5.22.2012 3:20 PM

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July 1: Do or Die for California High Speed Train Funding (Guess Which One We're Hoping for?)

Scott Shackford | 5.17.2012 1:59 PM

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Of Course Foreclosure Settlement Money Isn't Going to People With Foreclosures

Scott Shackford | 5.16.2012 7:35 PM

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California Austerity: $5 Billion Spending Hike: Cavanaugh on Fox L.A., 10 p.m. tonight

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.14.2012 11:27 PM

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Ron Paul Roundup: Oklahoma Progress, Budget Plan Hit by Romney, and Women! Women! Women!

Brian Doherty | 5.12.2012 4:55 PM

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Feds to California: Spend That Money You Don't Have on High-Speed Rail

Scott Shackford | 5.10.2012 8:19 PM

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Romania Latest European Government to Collapse

Ed Krayewski | 4.27.2012 11:47 AM

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Hysterity! Global Panic about "Austere" 9 Percent Spending Hike

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.25.2012 8:49 PM

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Joe Shmoe Shrugs: Kotkin on California's Middle-Class Exodus

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.22.2012 5:10 PM

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CBO: In the Long Run, Obama's Budget Plan Would Make the Economy Worse

Peter Suderman | 4.20.2012 12:49 PM

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Keynes: The Closet Supply Sider

Shikha Dalmia | 4.17.2012 9:15 AM

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Should Germany Dump the Euro?

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.14.2012 7:45 PM

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Why it's Easy to Tax the Poor

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.12.2012 3:47 PM

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'Radical' Republicans

Unfortunately, there is no basis for Obama's claims about the GOP's extremism.

Jacob Sullum | 4.11.2012 7:00 AM

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No, ObamaCare Won't Reduce the Deficit

A new paper by one of Medicare's Trustees reveals the disastrous budgetary consequences of the health law.

Peter Suderman | 4.10.2012 1:35 PM

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Debt and Loving It, Fiscal Year 2012 Edition

Peter Suderman | 4.6.2012 4:15 PM

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Simpson-Bowles Knocked Out Like Trevor Berbick; House Shuts Out Obama Budget Like Bob Feller

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.29.2012 11:33 AM

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Detroit's Leaders to Michigan: Give Us the Money and Get Lost

Detroit's mayor and council play power games as the city careens towards bankruptcy.

Shikha Dalmia | 3.26.2012 10:30 AM

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Recovery In Action: Nearly $300 Billion Student Debt In Default

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.25.2012 6:35 PM

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Reason Writers Around Town: Brian Doherty on Pajamas Media's PJTV's Front Page

Brian Doherty | 3.23.2012 8:33 PM

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It's Official: President Obama Has Added More to the National Debt than President Bush

Peter Suderman | 3.20.2012 10:25 AM

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Reason Writers Around Town: Shikha Dalmia in Bloomberg on the State Takeover of Detroit's Books

Reason Staff | 3.20.2012 8:23 AM

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The Horrible (and Continuing) Waste of 9/11

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.19.2012 5:46 PM

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President Obama's Debt Plan? More Debt.

Peter Suderman | 3.19.2012 5:31 PM

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Does Obama Have a Secret Plan to Deal with Runaway Debt? And Does it Involve Taxing Us Up The Ying-Yang?

Nick Gillespie | 3.13.2012 10:20 AM

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Congratulations, America, You're In Debt Up To Your Eyeballs! U.S. Sets Monthly Budget Deficit Record.

Peter Suderman | 3.8.2012 1:15 PM

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John Stossel on Americans' Reluctance to Make Tough Choices

Reason Staff | 2.23.2012 12:00 PM

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Obama's Fiscal Fakery

How can you pay down the national debt by building it up?

Jacob Sullum | 2.15.2012 7:00 AM

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Top 1 Percent Pay 37 Percent of Income Taxes

Tim Cavanaugh | 2.14.2012 3:19 PM