Mar 24, 2009 ... But as Heritage analyst Brian Riedl has pointed out, given that Obama has  already helped quadruple the deficit with his stimulus package, pledging to halve  it by 2013 is hardly ambitious. The Washington Post has a great graphic which  helps put President Obama's budget deficits in context of President ...
Oct 20, 2016 ... Having co-moderated the three Fox News Republican primary debates (two of  which Trump attended), Wallace already had experience with the Republican  nominee on a debate stage. He once even told Trump that his budget proposals " don't add up" — fact-checking him in real time. But as my colleague ...
Nov 9, 2011 ... The inside story of how the Republicans abandoned the poor and the middle  class to pursue their relentless agenda of tax cuts for the wealthiest one p. ... Tax  receipts as a percent of the total economy have fallen to levels not seen since  before the Korean War – nearly 20 percent below the historical ...
Jan 13, 2016 ... Meanwhile, the tax cut part was smaller than you might think; of the cuts, $69  billion came from tweaking the alternative minimum tax, a pretty standard  adjustment ... Sadly, in the current environment, one good test of how much a  program is motivated by actual economics, not politics, is how unpopular it is.
Sep 11, 2014 ... 50 percent? Does this matter? Should we care? Business people tell me they  cannot afford higher wages. Not true. They can adjust to all sorts of higher ...  When Wal-Mart or McDonald's or any other guy like me pays workers the  minimum wage, that's our way of saying, “I would pay you less, except then I'd ...
On attacks by Republicans that various programs in the economic stimulus plan are not stimulative, "If you add all that stuff up, it accounts for less than 1 percent of the overall package."