Bruce Bartlett
Bruce Bartlett
Bruce Reeves Bartlettis an American historian whose area of expertise is supply-side economics. He served as a domestic policy adviser to Ronald Reagan and as a Treasury official under George H. W. Bush...
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth11 October 1951
freedom cutting games
Democrats will play the old Washington game of calling reductions in the rate of growth of spending for any program a 'cut'.
wall party cutting
It's obvious that a lot of Tea Party members tend to be elderly. You've seen that famous sign, 'Tell the government to keep its hands off my Medicare.' And I think as long as the government does keep its hands off their Medicare, they're fine with talking about low taxes. But once they start to realize that the Republicans really do want to not just cut Medicare, but essentially abolish it, you know, I just think those people are not going to be part of the Tea Party. They're going to be over with Occupy Wall Street.
cutting thinking government
The growing inequality of wealth and income distribution is both a moral and economic problem. If the wealthy are unwilling to pay more taxes, then this is going to lead to spending cuts. And if you put off the table things like national defense, then you're going to end up cutting more and more out of programs that aid the poor. So, I think there are consequences to this idea that tolerance for inequality requires us to - to just do nothing to make the wealthy contribute a higher share of resources to fund the government.
jobs believe cutting
Republicans favor tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, but these had no stimulative effect during the George W. Bush administration, and there is no reason to believe that more of them will have any today. As for the idea that cutting regulations will lead to significant job growth, it's just nonsense. It's just made up.
economics economy-and-economics laws move serious situation today understanding
The situation today is so different than in the '70s. The laws are different, and people's understanding about economics is different. I don't see any serious move for such controls.
intel margins number peak people reached view
The significance of that is that there are a number of people that may view Intel as having reached peak margins and will view that as a negative.
attention paying seriously
is just seriously out of control, and this administration has not been paying attention to those problems.
circumstance current cuts existing extend hard tax
Realistically, it's going to be very, very hard to extend existing tax cuts under current circumstances
amount basically benefit bought burden capital debt deficit domestic federal foreigners period total year
The total amount of debt that foreigners have bought this year is $66 billion, which is about the amount of the total federal deficit during the same period of time. So in other words, we benefit by basically eliminating the burden of the debt on domestic capital markets.
failure perhaps remorse
I think perhaps Mr. Hoadley is experiencing remorse for his failure to become involved.
certainly misleading morally situation wrong
Morally it was wrong to do so in this situation and certainly misleading to the officer,
blatant debating encourage errors falsehoods intervene interview minute offered point respond separately views
Why not interview those with opposing views separately and give each more than a minute or two to make their point without having to respond to another person's debating tactics? And why not encourage interviewers to intervene when blatant errors or falsehoods are offered as facts?
last obvious security social
It's pretty obvious Social Security is on its last legs,
experience violent
It's been my experience that these violent felons are not released.