Deficit
Taxpayers Do Not Get Everything They Want But They Get What They Need
The Fiscal Responsibility Act is what taxpayers need and will lead to more of what they want to reduce wasteful spending.
California's Budget Debacle
Poor planning has put California in a perilous financial position.
The Inflation Reduction Act Is a Fiscal Disaster
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 will raise taxes, increase spending, and prolong both inflation and the recession.
Congress Drives the "Megabus" Off the Tracks
Even with the national debt at more than $22 trillion and trillion-dollar annual deficits beginning in fiscal year (FY) 2022, Congress continues full-speed ahead towards another fiscal disaster. This week’s poor spending decision comes from H.R....
Rescission and the Trump Administration
Rescission is an abstruse presidential tool passed amid the Nixon administration under the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974.
CBO Increases Projected Deficit Estimate
On August 5, 2016, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its “Monthly Budget Review for July 2016.” The CBO increased its projection of fiscal year 2016 deficit by 10 percent, from $534
State of the Union Observations
On January 12, 2016, President Obama delivered his final State of the Union address. During his address, President Obama cited some of his accomplishments while in office: the millions of people with healthcare, the increase in jobs and decrease...
CAGW Reaction to SOTU 2015: The President Is in an Alternate Universe
The President’s State of the Union Address would have made a good episode of “The Twilight Zone.” In "The Obama Zone," the following is true, because he either never mentioned the subject matter or failed to properly state the facts...
Declaration of Dependence
A February 4, 2013 Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report confirmed what taxpayer watchdog groups such as Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) have been warning about for years:
CBO Releases "Options for Reducing the Deficit 2014-2023"
The Congressional Budget Office released “Options for Reducing the Deficit 2014-2023” last week.
A Government That is Too Big
More and more news reports are surfacing about the overreach by the Obama Administration with regard to the partial government shutdown.
Debate and Compromise Is Not a One-Way Street
A few months back my 20-something niece was complaining about how Congress, in particular the Republican House, was just not cooperating with President Obama over spending, taxes, and government-investments like bridges and green energy. She said...
