The post below was published in 2010. The examples are a bit out of date, and the links don’t work, and I was wrong about…
Helping the Poor and Everybody Else
Posted in Deficits, and Government
Category: Deficits
Pistol Creek Days
Posted in Deficits, Government, and Politicians
Originally Posted November, 2009. Examples outdated, links may not work, but system unchanged. When I was growing up in Maryville, TN, I spent a lot…
Excise Taxes, Lobbying, and Our Future
Posted in Deficits, Government, National Debt, and Taxes
Worrying about how we fund federal spending, I noticed that in 1960, federal excise tax revenue funded 11.6% of federal spending, but, in 2015, it…
Reduced Deficits = Increased Debt
Posted in Deficits, and National Debt
The simple truth expressed in the title equation is lost in the shuffle of the posturing under way in Washington DC, in particular President Obama’s…