What Have You Done For Me Lately? Health Care Reform and Deficit Reduction
My colleague Matt is right that the key to bringing the deficit under control is reducing entitlement spending. But while Social Security has problems that…
Read MoreBogus Budget Battle
So, the government averted a shutdown. Again. To be honest, I’m not even sure what to attribute this “success” to. Everything has become so jumbled…
Read MoreStandard and Poor’s is right
Standard & Poor’s didn’t downgrade America’s AAA credit today. What they did is subtler: They attached a “negative outlook” to our AAA credit. That means…
Read MoreDeath Bed Politics and the Debt
Plato’s Anthropological Principle says that society is simply man at large. If this is true, our spend-aholic government is a person who makes $50,000 a…
Read MoreOur Wall Street Government
America’s finances are complicated enough. Decisions made by the nation’s financial policymakers have been debated with increasing fervor—some would argue hysteria—in recent months. However, the…
Read MoreThe Cost of Cost-Benefit Analysis
As part of a recent Food for Thought discussion at the Sanford School of Public Policy, several professors discussed cost-benefit analysis (CBA), a tool widely…
Read MoreThe Reality of “Easy Budget Cuts”
Following their recent midterm victories, Republicans would like us to think they’ve been sent to Washington with a clear mandate: cut the deficit. First on…
Read MoreA “Shaggy” Argument for the Soda Tax
A recent New York Times article observes the blossoming friendship between Big Beverage and interest groups opposed to New York City Mayor Bloomberg’s proposed plan…
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