There is a ray of hope in the budget battles. House Republicans put forward a stop gap measure on Friday that included $4 billion in cuts but many of the programs targeted were marked for elimination by President Obama in his 2012...
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Monthly Archives: February 2011
Tax expenditures, spending through the tax code, tax incentives, tax credits, tax deductions, loopholes, tax breaks, corporate welfare. These are just a few of the names for what is becoming a hot topic. Saturday, we even had rallies across the US organized by a...
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House Republicans have submitted a two-week budget designed to advert a Government shutdown. The budget includes $2 billion in proposed spending cuts. This represents a prorata share of the $60 billion of cuts approved last week by the House. Senate Leader Harry...
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Recently an online panel was conducted of 5,000 Americans to find out how their perceptions of wealth distribution in the US compared to the actual distribution of wealth and what the survey respondents stated they would like the distribution of wealth to...
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Republicans and Democrats continue to argue over the 2011 budget with no clear end in sight. The argument must be resolved, partially or completely by March 4 or the Federal Government will be forced to shutdown. This is going to be tough...
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Mediacare pays about $12 billion annually in costs related to unneccessary hospital readminssions. On average, one in five Medicare patients is readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of being discharged. In 2007 the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission estimated about 75% of...
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Constitutional humor from Jonathan Turley’s Blog When read literally in accordance with accepted grammar rules used in 1787, the US Constitution requires “…that the President must be a natural born citizen at the time of adoption or a citizen at the time...
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This opinion piece by Robert H. Frank argues for the use of taxes to limit behavior that causes harm to others. The editorial tries to make the case that tax law can be used like any other law that regulates things humans do that...
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