Let’s take the politics out of the debate over public sector unions and their benefits, and look strictly at the figures. When you strip away the rhetoric, you can chart two macroeconomic trends and two patterns of fiscally fo…
Washington now spends that much more than it did a mere three years ago. But trying to figure out what we’re getting for all that extra money is no simple matter. A lot of slicing and dicing does yield some answers — none of w…
Like all budgets, the federal government’s spending plan is all about revenues and expenditures. Unfortunately, Uncle Sam is very good at grossly overestimating tax receipts and grossly underestimating spending. It’s enough to …
The tax cut compromise between Obama and the GOP is now being touted as a back-door stimulus plan, one that some economists predict will create or save 3.1 million jobs. Unfortunately, the model on which those forecasts are bas…