Category Archives: debt and deficit

Another math lesson for the innumerate members of the Denver Post editorial board

And it starts like this… Right now the Republicans and Democrats are hotly debating which of their two wholly inadequate plans we should use to avoid the fiscal cliff, but looking at the size of the deficit, they’re proposing different-sized … Continue reading

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Out of touch postal employees

Beyond idiocy: Postal workers continue hunger strike against proposed delivery cuts Six former and current postal workers, part of a group called Communities and Postal Workers United, are calling the strike “six days starving to save six-day delivery.” Their goal … Continue reading

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Tax Migration

An Embarrassing Metric Disappears Since 1991 the Internal Revenue Service has been compiling statistics on filers’ addresses, which the agency’s Statistics of Income division uses to show who is moving into and out of every county and state in the … Continue reading

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David Harsanyi: Fiscal cliff? We’ve already taken that dive. Our potential unfunded liabilities, what our government has promised to spend on entitlement programs in the future and won’t have money to pay, are estimated to total anywhere from $87 trillion … Continue reading

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Thank you, kids!

Barron’s letter to the editor via Paul Mirengoff at Powerline blog One generation got old; one generation got sold A Warm Thank YouTo the Editor: This 50-something, white, conservative Republican wishes to thank America’s youth for sacrificing their financial futures … Continue reading

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If this is news to you, hate to tell you, but you haven’t been paying attention. Obama’s Tax Increases Fund Government for Eight Days

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Diplomad 2.0: Temporarily in California, I run into Obama voters galore, and occasionally ask them, especially the wealthy ones, why they voted for Obama. The answers prove very mixed. They don’t really know why, except, well, he is black, and … Continue reading

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