Gazing Into CBO’s Crystal Ball
Over at Kaiser Health News, I have a new article looking more broadly at the fiscal sleight of hand that has gone into...
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A Mid-Year Update on the President’s Plan to Spend, and Then Tax, in Epic Proportions
Peter Orszag, the president’s outgoing Director of the Office of Management and Budget, released the annual...
Obamacare’s Cooked Books and the “Doc Fix”
The Obama administration continues to insist (see this post from White House Budget Director Peter Orszag) that the...
The Debt Commission and Obamacare
The president’s debt commission had its first meeting this week, and all of the talk was of getting serious about...
Tax Collecting for Obama’s Welfare State
Now that the health-care bill has been signed into law, President Obama wants to “pivot” to other pressing...
Obamacare Will Break the Bank, Not Cut the Deficit
The White House and its congressional allies are trying to suggest that the latest Congressional Budget Office (CBO)...
Deficit-Cutting Mythology
For months, one of the primary talking points pushed by the president and his allies in Congress is that their...
The Anti-Jobs Bill
My colleague Yuval Levin and I have coauthored a piece in the latest Weekly Standard that examines the consequences of...
The Obama Budget: Spend, Entitle, Borrow
I have a post over on NRO’s Corner about President Obama’s proposed budget, going through some of the...
Obamacare is a Budgetary Disaster
Congressman Paul Ryan’s systematic dismantling of the argument that Obamacare would cut the budget deficit,...