Showing posts with label Spending 2017. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spending 2017. Show all posts
Friday, December 22, 2017

David Frum is not a conservative

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Here : Ideas are not artifacts, especially the kind of collective ideas we know as ideologies. Conservatives in 1964 opposed civil-rig...
Monday, December 4, 2017

I don't remember anyone who complains now about deficits complaining about Obama's then

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                          revenues...........outlays............deficits $7.312 trillion worth!
Friday, December 1, 2017

NYT claims 2010 Obama Paygo law would require mandatory spending cuts under the Republican tax bill

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From the story here : The biggest program affected would be Medicare, the health insurance program for older people and the disabled. ...
Saturday, November 4, 2017

How to tax the rich and only the rich as originally intended in 1913, and solve a lot of problems

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In 1913 when the average Joe made about $800 a year, the first income tax under the 16th Amendment didn't worry him because he didn...
Monday, October 23, 2017

Hoorah for CNBC's Jake Novak, who says the real issue in need of reform is spending

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Here : Whether the Republicans pass a tax-reform bill this year, next year, or ever, the real issue in need of reform is spending. Was...
Sunday, October 22, 2017

Percentage of GDP spent by government at all levels in the US 1898-2016

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Since 1979 through 2016, outlays at all levels have doubled on average every 12.3 years, similar to the period 1898 through 1932 when th...
Saturday, October 21, 2017

Virginia's Dave Brat caves to Conservatism Inc, will vote for tax cuts without spending cuts

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Federal spending already is north of 21% of GDP, and government spending at all levels north of 36%. This is taxpayer money diverted fro...
Saturday, September 23, 2017

Jack Lew, who presided over an 87% increase in the national debt as Treasury Secretary, is suddenly worried about the debt implications of tax reform

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From the election of Obama in 2008 until the election of Trump in 2016, $9.2 trillion were added to the total public debt. We've gone ...
Sunday, September 10, 2017

The price of the latest continuing resolution will probably be a big tax increase

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The last time we had a really big continuing resolution, defying "regular order", the Republicans gave away the store in exchang...
Saturday, September 9, 2017

Here's how the House and Senate voted to raise the debt ceiling, fund the government for three more months, and provide hurricane relief

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The Senate passed the measure 80-17. That story is here . The House passed the measure 316-90. That story is here . See how they u...
Tuesday, September 5, 2017

If Trump has any balls he'll veto any Continuing Resolution which punts The Wall

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Story here . Republicans promised "regular order". We're not getting it.
Thursday, July 20, 2017

What will the next point be on the graph when Trump is done?

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Thursday, June 29, 2017

Your fair share in taxes in 2015 was 21.3%: Did you pay it?

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Wednesday, June 28, 2017

How to reform Medicaid before Obamacare is even repealed and save $48.3 billion: Kick out all the illegal aliens

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We don't need no stinkin' Medicaid CIS estimates that 51% of illegal aliens are enrolled in Medicaid, here . That's 6.12...
Monday, May 22, 2017

Trump isn't fighting to build a wall, in fact he keeps caving

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Trump got nothing in the continuing resolution through this fiscal year, and will get even less than he was asking for, if he's lucky,...
Monday, May 15, 2017

Governments often raised funds with lotteries in the past, but how about $7 trillion in FY2017?

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I don't think so. Lotteries started to fall out of favor after 1830, according to the story here , mostly due to corruption. The g...
Thursday, May 4, 2017

Republican $1.1 trillion spending bill includes $18 million to combat misogyny in the Marine Corps

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Now Republicans take a whack at turning the Marine Corps into the Marine Corpse. Story here .
Wednesday, May 3, 2017

The vehicle for the obscene $1.1 trillion House omnibus spending bill was the HIRE Vets Act

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They can't even tell the truth about the name of the bill. The $1.1 trillion bill passed with support from both parties in a 309-1...
Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Talk radio and Republicans are trying to defend this latest indefensible continuing spending resolution

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When Democrats took control of the Congress under Obama in 2009, they promptly added about $700 billion to Bush's outlays in the middl...
Monday, May 1, 2017

Another Chinese forced laborer writes a plea for help and sequesters it in a purse purchased at Walmart

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And Trump expects the Chinese authorities to do something about North Korea. Yeah right. From the story here : “Inmates in the...