These days it seems that a mysterious group called "the CBO" rules the world, or at least Washington, D.C. Unfortunately, it's not very good at predicting things, and its bad calls can lead to bad policy results. The Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation predict what will happen with spending, tax revenues and deficits from new bills and congressional budgets. They have made headlines with their absurd warning that the Trump tax bill to extend the 2017 tax cuts and other reforms like eliminating taxes on tips would add trillions to the debt over 10 years."It's ...
Anyone remember back in 2008 when the housing market collapsed and the stock market crashed, with many tens of millions of Americans seeing their lifetime savings nearly wiped out? Apparently the ...
It's understandable that Democrats are fuming about Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency ferreting out waste, fraud and abuse, inasmuch as the people committing the waste, fraud and abuse ...
If you haven't watched the Bret Baier interviews on Fox News with Elon Musk and the other executives who have given their time and expertise to exposing the rampant fraud and ...
As my assiduous readers know, I've been down on Donald Trump for abandoning the central promises of his 2016 campaign -- a campaign so spectacular that I wrote an homage to it, ...
Why is it that the politicians keep referring to America as a "democracy"? How many times have we heard that former President Donald Trump is a "threat to democracy"? Well, yes, ...
People in Washington love to debate threats. Which country or organization is the greatest danger to the United States? Is it Russia, with its massive nuclear arsenal and ...
We all know that math scores have been scandalously trending downward for many years, but the folks in the government should at least be able to count. We're finding more and ...
In 1982 the federal budget deficit rose above $100 billion for the first time (those were the good old days!), and then-President Ronald Reagan agreed to an infamous budget deal ...
The latest official employment report finds once again that the federal government and state-local hiring spree is still in full gear. Over the past year, health care and ...
Everybody and his dog is writing about the Trump conviction, so I guess I’ll add my few grains to the sand pile. Otherwise I’d kill something, preferably a New York judge. Or ...
Inscribed on a frieze adorning the facade of the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse in lower Manhattan is an excerpt of a letter written by George Washington to Attorney ...
Presidential candidate Donald Trump promised to "drain the swamp!" The "swamp" is the permanent Washington bureaucracy working to perpetuate itself. In 2020, then-President ...
President Joe Biden keeps lecturing corporate America to "pay your fair share" of taxes. It turns out he's right that some companies really are getting away scot-free from paying ...
It's a good thing President Joe Biden wasn't strapped to a polygraph while giving his State of the Union speech on Thursday, because his results would have come back about as ...
It's a miracle of private sector innovation and the magic of the free enterprise system that technologies that were only the playthings of the super-rich a generation ago are now ...
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