- The Family Cow
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If you kill the cow for steak today, you won’t have any milk tomorrow. We are digging deep into our national cash cows—taxpayers—and we’re going to soon run out. - Othering reduced spending
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Reducing spending to match revenue is less of an answer than pretending the problem doesn’t exist. - Proposition B opponents: city salaries grow from magic beans
- Where do they think city worker salaries come from?
- Ryan: End oil subsidies?
- Of course we want to end oil subsidies. Maintaining oil subsidies because gas prices might rise is crazy: we pay for those subsidies, too!
- Why “we don’t have a plan” is selfishly incompetent
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The Obama White House tells congress, “we don’t have a plan, but we don’t like your plan” when confronted with the destruction of the United States economy by 2027. Why can’t we continue to live large and then fix the problem in 2027?
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- Repairing the Broken Budget Process
- “Washington stumbles from budget crisis to budget crisis, with little to no oversight of how government spends hardworking taxpayers’ money. The incentives currently favor those who want to spend more, and the result is a crushing burden of debt that is hurting economic growth today and threatening economic prosperity tomorrow. I’m pleased to join a team of reformers at the House Budget Committee committed to repair the broken budget process. My colleagues at the Committee have put forward 10 proposals designed to strengthen spending controls, enhance oversight, and increase transparency.”
