by Dan Mitchell | Apr 14, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Some people thought I was being unfair when I referred to the budget deal as a kiss-your-sister agreement. But as more information is revealed, it looks like the GOP got the short end of the stick – largely because they were afraid of a government shutdown (even...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 13, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
Responding to widespread criticism of his AWOL status on the budget fight, President Obama today unveiled a fiscal plan. It already is being criticized for its class warfare approach to tax policy, but the most disturbing feature may be a provision that punishes the...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 9, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
There were reports about 10 days ago that the crowd in Washington reached a budget deal, for the remainder of the 2011 fiscal year, with $33 billion of cuts. That number was disappointingly low. I wrote at the time that if this was a kiss-your-sister deal, we didn’t...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 7, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Just days after the introduction of a very good plan by the Chairman of the House Budget Committee, leaders from the Republican Study Committee in the House of Representatives have introduced an even better plan. In a previous post, I compared spending levels from the...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 6, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Washington is filled with groups that piously express their devotion to balanced budgets and fiscal responsibility, so it is rather revealing that some of these groups have less-than-friendly responses to Congressman Ryan’s budget plan. The Committee for a Responsible...
