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Retiring Boomers: Where the Bucks Are
Maintaining and modernizing our armed forces doesn’t just protect America, it fulfills the Constitution’s mandate to “provide for the common defense.” Yet the defense budget… Read More
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Maintaining and modernizing our armed forces doesn’t just protect America, it fulfills the Constitution’s mandate to “provide for the common defense.” Yet the defense budget… Read More
After making news earlier this week for promising to make Social Security and Medicare reform a “central part” of his plan to curtail federal spending,… Read More
Responding to the sticker shock of the Congressional Budget Office’s projected record $1.2 trillion budget deficit, President-elect Barack Obama said: We will — we are… Read More
Most people are skeptical about statistics, claiming that mathematically-minded people just bend numbers to their will. But when it comes to long term budget projections,… Read More
Barack Obama argues that his tax rebates, many of which will go to households paying no income tax will “offset the payroll tax they pay,”… Read More
We’ve never met Al Gore. So how do we know he is racist? Because the Washington Post’s Harold Meyerson told us so. Remember Al Gore… Read More
The bailout parade is continuing unabated in Washington this week. On the heels of a $25 billion bailout for the automotive industry, the Bush Administration… Read More
Former Comptroller General of the United States and Fiscal Wake-Up Tour star David Walker outlines how our impending entitlement crisis parallels the current subprime mortgage… Read More
Last week the Congressional Budget Office reported that the federal deficit will reach $407 billion this year. This actually is not as groundbreaking as it… Read More
When it comes to retirement and pension benefits, federal, state, and local government officials have all been humming the same mantra: never pay for something… Read More