Hey Libertarians: Prepare To Be Disappointed in Trump's 10-Year Budget Plan
He'll cut less than we want, exaggerate economic growth, and pretend it all balances out in 2028.
He'll cut less than we want, exaggerate economic growth, and pretend it all balances out in 2028.
The U.S. could be on the path to French-style economic sclerosis.
The problem that has long plagued reformers in the two controlling parties is the failure to put a stop to spending.
Libertarian-leaners are lonely voices on Capitol Hill opposing the latest bipartisan spending spree
You didn't think they were really going to defund public broadcasting and slash the EPA by 31 percent, did you?
Innumerates number the ranks of politicians and bureaucrats.
Instead of permanent tax reform we get temporary taxcut-and-spend, again.
Voters go to the polls Sunday, where two candidates will advance to the final round.
The cases of Hartford, Ct., Richmond, Va., and Gwinnett, Ga.
If we're going to kill this corporate-welfare program, we can't count on the White House to help.
The best place to start would be a cap on all spending or a strict cut-as-you-go system.
This week's fake outrage confuses welfare spending with equal government protection and blames Trump.
Ready for another round of tax cuts combined with spending increases?
Trump leaves the impression that Americans shoulder an unnecessarily large military burden because some NATO members underfund their military establishments. But that's nonsense.
Advocates of ever increasing spending will never meet a cut they won't overreact to.
It's a tragedy that President Trump didn't use this moment to try to cut more, and to cut the biggest unsustainable spending: Medicare and Social Security.
The Trump "budget cuts" are best understood as a kind of theater or performance art.
If you're against corporate welfare, the president's budget has some good news-and a lot more bad news.
Aquion Energy files for Chapter 11. Will Tesla's Gigafactory be next?
Trump should choose privatization over nationalization.
Law enforcement representatives had worried about loss of grants.
A predictable debate meets an unpredictable president.
The block grant provides an opportunity for government spending unconnected to the act of revenue-raising.
Here we go again, and again, and again...
When even the experts in boondoggles are worried…
Is anybody actually interested in balancing the federal budget?
From Bernie to Hillary, from Trump to the chumps in Congress, we used the spectacle of politics to argue about the substance of policy.
Government spending and crony capitalism are out of control, and few people bother to go to Washington to ask for spending cuts.
Yet another federal spending spree isn't going to fix what ails us.
More than 5,000 people work in the federal government's PR machines; more than at the Department of Education.
Staring into the abyss.
Bomb threats, broken ticket kiosks, and contract disputes with streetcar managers have plagued Cincinnati Bell Connector's opening week.
The message from the GOP appears to be that the only thing that matters is winning elections.
Wash Post op-ed lays out strong case for a president not beholden to either Dems or GOP.
Thanks for paying for the pensions and benefits of connected Beltway staff.
Well...more than the non-zombie Congress already does.
Not everything can be a "top priority." We have to choose.
Deficits aren't in the trillion dollar range anymore so that's supposed to be good.
He won't have his massive spending plans outdone by Hillary Clinton.
Trump's shoestring campaign is subsisting on less than half of Clinton's vast fortune, yet the usual voices supporting taxpayer-funded political campaigns have fallen strangely silent.
He sounds like Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown.
Bernie Sanders isn't campaigning anymore but he hasn't suspended his campaign, thus keeping himself eligible for protection.
Tax agency risk officer was shown dubious legal justification in secret 2014 meeting.
The island commonwealth and the U.S. would benefit from giving each other more space and more freedom.
The $4 trillion war on terror: Where did the money go?
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