Is America's meat processing industry making huge profits by "jacking up prices" during a pandemic, or does it need government assistance? Both, according to the Biden administration.
You can support pre-K education and affordable child care and worry about climate change while understanding that policymakers need to get out of the way.
Are Medicare's fiscal problems even worse than the headline numbers suggest?
When government does things, most everything costs more and is lower quality.
Putting America's depressing fiscal policy to a beat since 2011!
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"Some districts are investing big money in initiatives that don't appear at first glance strictly COVID-related."
If all the Build Back Better plan's proposals were made permanent, the final price tag would be $4.8 trillion and the bill would add about $2.8 trillion to the deficit.
Biden’s presidency is already failing. Build Back Better wouldn't help.
Plus, Biden's Build Back Better passes the house.
Today's highly successful space race "is not something for two billionaires to be directing," says Sanders, who favors the government spending taxpayer money to do the same damn thing (but more slowly).
The legislation will have a negative impact on the labor supply and send high prices soaring even higher.
The Congressional Budget Office's analysis of the bill is unlikely to prevent its passage through the House. A vote could happen later tonight.
Virginia spends around $35,000 per mile of state-controlled road. In New Jersey, it's $1.1 million. Both states are about to get a lot more federal funding.
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The cost of interest on the national debt will soon be a huge chunk of change.
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It's Biden's bill, but Trump helped set the stage.
The U.S. government doesn't reflect on its spending history, and that shows.
Gov. Greg Abbott’s crusade is costing the state huge sums just to try to prosecute thousands of misdemeanor trespassing cases.
It's one of the most expensive legislative packages in American history, but the $1.2 trillion bill will end up doing far less than it otherwise could have.
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We can't afford to keep funding defense contractors' cost overruns.
"I'm open to supporting a final bill that helps move our country forward, but I'm equally open to voting against a bill that hurts our country," Manchin says.
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These schools are already extremely accessible to low-income students. Don’t mess with their flexibility.
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And it just might reduce the tax burden for the well-off in the short term.
The idea that massive government spending, hate speech laws, and gun control will improve America—when they failed horribly elsewhere—is a dangerous myth.
Forty years from now, it'll be much, much, much higher.
Legislating with budget gimmicks is shameful, timid, risky, and opportunistic. Mostly, though, it's really expensive.
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Manchin's $1.5 trillion plan is still bigger than the Obama stimulus, and would be a major expansion of government's power to redistribute wealth.
New analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office shows massive deficit increase as a result of spending bill’s health care provisions.
When everything's a priority, nothing is.
For Biden, "build back better’" apparently means eyes on everything in the economy.
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"Spending trillions more on new and expanded government programs, when we can't even pay for the essential social programs...is the definition of fiscal insanity."
The President's inaugural "unity" rhetoric has given way to apocalyptic condemnation.
They give an edge to big companies that have no problems accessing capital and whose executives are often well-connected with politicians.
Under Biden, Democrats have decided that their agenda has no costs and no tradeoffs.
Profligate government spending supposedly has nothing to do with it.
Democrats are now relying on the same "dynamic scoring" technique they've previously criticized.
Democrats want to raise the debt ceiling, while Republicans occasionally remember they're against big government spending.
The problem isn’t the GOP or Senate rules. It’s that Democrats can’t agree amongst themselves.
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