Comments on: What Would It Take to Balance the Budget? A Lot Less Work Than We Think

By: Republicans Give a Thumbs-Up to Joint Committee Tax Increases | Ending Spending | EndingSpending.com

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:08:20 +0000

[...] comparison, the average increase per year of the budgets from 2001 to 2011 was 6.1 percent. The average budget increase under President Obama [...]

By: Hey, Joint Committee! Why Not Balance the Budget in Ten Years without Pain? | Ending Spending | EndingSpending.com

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:22:54 +0000

[...] like this! I wrote a blog post at The Sundries Shack last year in which I highlighted a proposal called “The 19 Percent Solution”, devised by Nick Gillespie of the Reason Foundation and Veronique de Rugy of the Mercatus Center. [...]

By: Clearing the Browser Tabs – Scary Economic Chart Thursday Edition

Clearing the Browser Tabs – Scary Economic Chart Thursday Edition — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:12:03 +0000

[...] forever. As The Right Sphere points out in a delicious smack-down of WaPo hack Ezra Klein (and as I’ve noted here several times), we’ve never gotten as high as 21 percent.Ever.Check out the links and, [...]

By: Kick It Up A Notch, Tim. Shoot for 8 Percent.

Kick It Up A Notch, Tim. Shoot for 8 Percent. — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:14:55 +0000

[...] that’s just how things work — to our states and to Washington.We know there’s only so large a chunk our Federal government will get of what we produce. Any attempt to take more than that always leads us to a more meager living for [...]

By: Ezra Klein’s “Let It Ride” Plan is A Quick Trip to Cloud Cuckoo Land « The Greenroom

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:24:45 +0000

[...] Furthermore, even when the top marginal tax rate was over 90 percent, we still didn’t crack a 60-year average of 19.5 percent of GDP. In other words, the CBO’s alternative plan on which Klein pins his hopes assumes that the [...]

By: Ezra Klein’s “Let It Ride” Plan is A Quick Trip to Cloud Cuckoo Land

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:59:22 +0000

By: We Can Handle the Deficit, but We’ll Have to Do It Over Harry Reid’s Political Hide.

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 05:03:02 +0000

[...] high-step around those third-rails. However, Mitchell has come to the same conclusion that Nick Gillespie and Veronique de Rugy reached last month. I calculated that over the last ten years, we could have given Washington an average raise of 2.5 [...]

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Mon, 06 Dec 2010 07:01:54 +0000

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