Spending Bills Setting Up Reckless Defense Cuts
Cracks in the Budget Control Act’s (BCA) spending caps are growing more visible as negotiators near completion of the first three appropriations bills for fiscal… Read More
Morning Bell: Straight Talk for the Super Committee
It has been 12 months since the American people spoke resoundingly at the polls against overtaxing, overspending, and overborrowing, but memories can be short in… Read More
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Infographic: Why Spending Is the Problem
With its November 23 deadline fast approaching, the “super committee” created by the Budget Control Act is back in the news, and it is still grappling… Read More
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Draconian Defense Cuts Will Reduce Safety
There are many ways to balance a budget. Most of us, for example, spend 30 percent or more of our income on housing. Skipping mortgage… Read More
Morning Bell: Obama Spins His Wheels; Economy Stuck in First Gear
No news is good news–except when it means that the story about America’s slow-moving economy remains the same. A new report this morning from the… Read More
33 Senators Who Know What America Needs
As Washington ties itself up in knots over what the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, better known as the Supercommittee, will recommend to Congress,… Read More
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Lunch with Heritage: Online Chat on Spending
Click here to join us on right now for our “Lunch with Heritage” online chat. We are joined by Heritage’s Budget expert Pat Knudsen. He… Read More
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Chart of the Week: Taxing the Wealthy to Cover Future Deficits Won’t Work
Democrats on the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction last week floated a proposal that includes massive tax increases on wealthy Americans. While their plan… Read More
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Super Committee Proposal: Tax Hikes Should Be a Nonstarter
For months now the so-called super committee has been meeting in secret, tasked with delivering a budget-cutting (er… make that deficit-cutting) plan. Many have doubted… Read More
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Gutting the Military
In his straightforward and scathing piece for today’s New York Post, Heritage senior fellow Peter Brookes discussed the devastating impact a sequestration of the defense… Read More
