Brian Riedl
Brian Riedl
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The biggest economic danger of the next 50 years is the coming crisis in entitlement spending. The problem is the entire health care system is in crisis. The entire U.S. health care system needs to be overhauled. If not, it will literally bankrupt the federal government.
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As bad as the last five years have been, it's going to get even worse the next five years.
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dump the largest debt in world history into the laps of the next generation. Within a decade, tax increases would need to reach $7,000 per household (a 37 percent tax hike) just to balance the budget.
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It's symbolic progress for Congress to learn that they can terminate programs without the sky falling. Maybe they can come back next year and start terminating programs whose costs make a difference.
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Why do they need special treatment to get a grant?
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Even small-government conservatives believe Washington should prioritize defense, safety and security, and therefore see rescuing New Orleans as a top government priority.
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What that means is those costs are being passed down to our children - with interest.
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There is no shortage of candidates for elimination. There is only the shortage of political will to make the difficult decisions.
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Mike Pence has done a fabulous job leading the Republican Study Committee. They have put out a realistic and credible and specific budget proposal to get spending under control when virtually no one else is talking about it.
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Nearly all of their savings comes from this cut to total discretionary spending. That does nothing for the real long-term problem.
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Montana is getting more highway pork, but so is every other state.
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More than anything else, this one program threatens the long-term federal budget.
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There are precious few legislative days before the election.
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Yes, it's true that earmarks are only 1 percent of all federal spending, but earmarks have a cultural effect on Congress that is much larger than their cost. It fuses Congress together with lobbyists and creates a culture of government spending as a means to re-election, which bleeds into other areas.