I’m always struck by how little the fact-based insider conversations about key budgetary matters seem to penetrate the national consciousness, allowing misperceptions to play a major role in shaping the national policy conversation……
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Some things you might THINK you know about the Budget and the American Economy….
Posted by jamesb101
on March 21, 2013
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Will the US Congress follow the EU ‘s battle over Stimulus vs Austerity ?
Posted by jamesb101
on May 24, 2012
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“[I]f lawmakers changed fiscal policy in late 2012 to remove or offset all of the policies that are scheduled to reduce the federal budget deficit by 5.1 percent of GDP between calendar years 2012 and 2013…CBO estimates, the growth of real GDP in calendar year 2013 would lie in a broad range around 4.4 percent, well above the 0.5 percent projected for 2013 under current law,” the report reads. “However, eliminating or reducing the fiscal restraint scheduled to occur next year without imposing comparable restraint in future years would reduce output and income in the longer run relative to what would occur if the scheduled fiscal restraint remained in place.”
Share on FacebookGo ahead repeal the Healthcare law…Why not cost the country another $230 Billion?…
Posted by jamesb101
on January 6, 2011
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I just don’t get it……
The Republican’s seem hell bent on screwing the American people out of getting medicare….
And
Making us pay more money….
In a beautiful turn on whole tax and spend thing…
The Democrats have finally woken up and started to point out that the GOP promises to cut spending are empty…..
Share on FacebookThoughts on Conservatives and Budget Deficits……
Posted by jamesb101
on July 15, 2010
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“In the 2000s, Republicans remade the budget reconciliation process so it could be used to increase the deficit. When Democrats took power, they passed a rule saying that reconciliation needed to reduce the deficit. That is to say, they constrained themselves for the sake of deficit reduction, where Republicans unharnessed themselves from rules meant to limit the debt.
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