Deficit Hawk Paul Ryan Pushes Bills to Increase the Deficit
While he is no longer the chairman of the Budget Committee, former vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan (R-WI) now serves as the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee which is responsible for...
View ArticleFiscal Responsiblity
The state of Wisconsin will not pay some of its debts this year because governor and presidential hopeful Scott Walker will defer payment to plug holes in the state budget generated by his tax cuts....
View ArticleRubio Signs Pledge to Promote Dysfunction, Deficits
Florida Senator Marco Rubio (R) has joined the list Republican presidential candidates who've signed Grover Norquist's anti-tax pledge. If you're curious what the federal budget would look like under...
View ArticleRyan Confirms Tax Reform is Dead
This probably won't come as a surprise, but Tax Cut Magician and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) has admitted that serious tax reform is a pipe-dream that has virtually no...
View ArticleGOP Leader Rules Out Paying for Things We Need
Congress recently passed a two-month extension to continue funding the federal highway system, but the conditions that necessitated a short-term extension persist. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy...
View ArticleGrover Norquist Tells Republicans Not to Fund the Highway System
While congressional Democrats have sought to either raise the gas tax or impose taxes on overseas profits to fund the federal highway system, congressional Republicans have proposed that we implement a...
View ArticleJeb Bush Calls for Bigger Tax Cuts Than George W. Bush
As promised, Jeb Bush has unveiled his tax "reform" proposal and while I was inclined to refer to it as the "Bush Tax Cuts 2.0," the truth is Jeb's tax cuts would be far more crippling than his...
View ArticleRand Paul Will Kill Taxes One Bullet at a Time
He burned it, cut it ith a chainsaw, and stuffed it into a wood-chipper, but the one thing Rand son of Ron had not done to the tax code until today is shoot it. Shooting the tax code >>...
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