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Issues Forum: Budget

Budget

Budget

Hillary Clinton’s Debt Promise (That She’d Definitely Break)

October 26, 2016

In the third and final debate last week, Hillary Clinton tried to flex her fiscal responsibility bona fides by vowing  that she “will not add a penny to the debt” on three separate occasions. That must mean she has comprehensive reforms to address entitlements, rein in other spending, and reduce our commitments abroad, if she […]

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Budget

Budget

Paul Krugman’s Strange Argument That We Don’t Have To Worry About The National Debt

October 24, 2016

Paul Krugman is offering a significantly strange argument about why we just don’t have to worry about the national debt. It’s only projected to rise to 113% of GDP after all. The problem here is twofold. Firstly, the projection is pretty rosy–there are a number of assumptions which look pretty good but one that’s rather […]

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Advisor Victor Davis Hanson

Advisor Victor Davis Hanson

America’s Civilizational Paralysis

October 14, 2016

The Greek city-states in the fourth-century BC, fifth-century AD Rome, and the Western European democracies after World War I all knew they could not continue as usual with their fiscal, social, political, and economic behavior. But all these states and societies feared far more the self-imposed sacrifices that might have saved them. Mid-fifteenth-century Byzantium was […]

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Advisor Veronique de Rugy

Advisor Veronique de Rugy

Trump Says Clinton is the Candidate of the Past—but His Ideas Are All Old News

August 9, 2016

Presidential nominee Donald Trump wants “to jump start America,” and thinks “it won’t be that hard.” In a speech delivered at the Detroit Economic Club, he outlined his plan for the economy. It boils down some tax cuts, eliminating regulations, and engaging in trade wars. A significant portion of the speech was spent attacking Hillary […]

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Budget

Trump’s Infrastructure Idea

August 5, 2016

Donald Trump is a competitive person. He likes to have bigger things than other people. He says that he has really big hands. His tax cut was larger than the other GOP candidates. And now he says that his infrastructure plan will be double the size of Hillary Clinton’s. The problem is, with the federal […]

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