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October 19, 2010
Reason: Why is everyone picking on the Bush "tax cuts" rather than the Bush "spending increases"?
July 25, 2010
Financial Times: The political genius of supply-side economics
May 5, 2010
Los Angeles Times: Greece's lessons for us
April 27, 2010
Daily Dish: The Right-Wing Media-Industrial Complex
April 26, 2010
New York Times: Does Conservatism Need Fox News?
February 17, 2010
PBS: The Business Desk: How Does the Current Deficit Compare to Past Deficits?
November 14, 2007
The Western Right: Understanding Government: Spending
October 31, 2007
NC Waterman: Thompson alone tackles entitlements
October 31, 2007
PowerLine Forum: The incredible shrinking tent
October 24, 2007
Mark Levin Show: From the show
October 11, 2007
Governing.com: A Lesson From Detroit
October 22, 2007
Politics Reddit: Now if I told you...
September 27, 2007
Huffington Post: We Can't Give You Anything But War, Baby
August 14, 2007
Matt Yglesias: The Big Con
May 28, 2007
Marginal Revolution: Would immortals be libertarian?
March 28, 2007
Andrew Sullivan: The Daily Dish
March 27, 2007
Jerry Pournelle: Current Chaos Manor mail
American Thinker: Young Democrats Just Don't Get It
State Finances Update for FY 2010
On December 14, 2011 the US Census Bureau released data on state finances for FY 2010 here, including spending and revenue for each individual state and for all states combined.
On December 27, 2011 we updated state and local spending and revenue data as follows:
- We replaced "guesstimated" state spending and revenue data for FY2010 using the data from the Census Bureau.
- We replaced "guesstimated" local spending and revenue data for FY 2010 with estimates for each spending and revenue category using the trends in state finances between FY 2009 and FY 2010.
- We replaced "guesstimated" state revenue data for FY 2011 with data from the Census Bureau's quarterly state tax summary here.
- We replaced "guesstimated" local revenue data for FY 2011 with estimates for each category using trends for each category of state revenue between FY 2010 and FY 2011.
- We replaced "guesstimated" state and local spending and revenue for FY 2012 thru FY2017 with new guesstimates based on the latest Census Bureau data for FY 2010 state finances and FY 2011 quarterly tax data.
Highlights: State spending on Welfare was up from a "guesstimated" $164 billion to $237 billion. Business and Other Revenue was up from a "guesstimated" $174 billion to $456 billion. This reflects the $289 billion profit reported on state pension plans for FY 2010, a partial recovery from the FY 2009 loss of $524 billion.
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Mutual Aid
In 1911... at least nine million of the 12 million covered by national insurance were already members of voluntary sick pay schemes. A similar proportion were also eligible for medical care.
Green, Reinventing Civil Society
Education
“We have met with families in which for weeks together, not an article of sustenance but potatoes had been used; yet for every child the hard-earned sum was provided to send them to school.”
E. G. West, Education and the State
Democratic Capitalism
Three dynamic and converging systems functioning as one: a democratic polity, an economy based on markets
and incentives, and a moral-cultural system which is plural and, in the largest sense, liberal.
Michael Novak, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism