I would point out that revenues right now are about a point below the 40-year average in terms of percent of GDP.
all Federal spending is not created equal, and that there are areas that certainly need to be cut and restrained, and th...
What is the appropriate role for Government in these areas? And I just do not see that, again, paying for everybody's re...
the irony about the sequester is that it is aimed at the areas of the budget which, if you look historically, are flat o...
My concern is that by using this explosion of Federal expenditures based on health care to cut things like defense and n...
It seems to me that a way to discuss this is to try to identify what is the sweet spot in terms of percentage of GDP for...
I realize I am almost out of time, but my only disagreement with that would be if we only focus on the entitlement Medic...
I would argue we do not have a spending problem; we have a health care problem.
the primary goal there is to reduce the deficit by about $2.1 trillion.
I, too, believe programs should work.
cutting spending generally without dealing with the health care cost is like invading Brazil after Pearl Harbor.