Tag: Deficit
Fiscal Conservatives Don’t Want To Cut Spending
Conservatives do a lot of posturing about the deficit, which they only discovered the existence of on January 20, 2009. I remember the good ol’ days of the early Bush presidency when the problem was the surplus. Well, conservatives are apparently extremely upset with the deficit now, but taxes are still bad (in fact we […]
More Troops For Afghanistan
Some early reports are saying that Obama will announce that he’s sending 34,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. Barack Obama is expected to send 34,000 more US troops to Afghanistan when he unveils his long-awaited strategy for the Afghan conflict next Tuesday, US media reports said today. The Politico website said the US president would make […]
Fiscal Scolds
I’m really sick of all the fiscal scolds who say that the U.S. can’t pay for health care for its citizens. We can’t afford not to, but almost all the current fiscal scolds cheered when Bush pushed through unfunded tax cuts and unfunded wars: When the Bush tax cuts sunset at the end of 2010, […]
Would Obama Get Rewarded For Deficit Reduction?
Paul Krugman posts this depressing but rather sobering observation: But the political argument against focusing on the deficit is even stronger than he realizes — because there are very good odds that even if Obama exhibited iron fiscal discipline, voters wouldn’t notice. There’s a remarkable, depressing paper by Achen and Bartels that includes an analysis […]
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