“Truth in Lending?” ====== Democrats in Charlotte are pounding away at the savage budget cuts that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan supposedly favor and their phantom plan for “raising taxes on the middle class,” as President Obama puts it. The truth is the opposite, but table that for a moment. The President seems not to realize his critique is really a scorching... Read more
Archive for the ‘Debt’ Category
Desperately Seeking Middle-Class Taxes
September 6 | Posted by mrossol | Debt, Economics, Tax Issues$25 Trillion in Debt by 2022
August 6 | Posted by mrossol | Debt, Obama“When Obama took office in 2009 he promised to slow the growth of the debt by cutting the annual deficit in half. At the time he said “We cannot and will not sustain deficits like these without end. Contrary to the prevailing wisdom in Washington these past few years, we cannot simply spend as we please and defer the consequences... Read more
Ryan and the Right
March 29 | Posted by mrossol | Debt, Economics, Tax IssuesToo logical for most on both the right and left to consider… ===== It’s no surprise that the White House has denounced Paul Ryan’s new House budget as the end of welfare-state civilization. The puzzle is why some conservatives are taking shots at the best chance in decades for serious government reform. A pair of freshman Republicans, Tim Huelskamp of Kansas and Justin... Read more
Paul Ryan: The GOP Budget and Americas Future
March 23 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Debt, US DebtYou seen anything better? =========== By PAUL RYAN Less than a year ago, the House of Representatives passed a budget that took on our generation’s greatest domestic challenge: reforming and modernizing government to prevent an explosion of debt from crippling our nation and robbing our children of their future. Absent reform, government programs designed in the middle of the 20th century cannot fulfill their... Read more
