Category · 4 postsDeficits
All posts in the automatic “Deficits” category, newest first.
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February 2, 2018
Helping the Poor and Everybody Else
The post below was published in 2010. The examples are a bit out of date, and the links don’t work, and I was wrong about…
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February 2, 2018
Pistol Creek Days
Originally published November, 2009 · republished 2018
Originally Posted November, 2009. Examples outdated, links may not work, but system unchanged. When I was growing up in Maryville, TN, I spent a lot…
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August 4, 2016
Excise Taxes, Lobbying, and Our Future
Worrying about how we fund federal spending, I noticed that in 1960, federal excise tax revenue funded 11.6% of federal spending, but, in 2015, it…
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July 3, 2016
Reduced Deficits = Increased Debt
The simple truth expressed in the title equation is lost in the shuffle of the posturing under way in Washington DC, in particular President Obama’s…
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