Tag: Medicare

If we don’t want to cut programs, then we need big tax increases The U.S. fiscal challenge is pretty straightforward. Revenues in 2012 equal 16 percent of our nation’s output and spending (excluding interest) is 22 percent. Deficit spending makes sense in a weak economy, but even once the economy recovers revenues will fall short…

Governor Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan as his running mate is a great development. Instead of criticism of the President for the slow recovery from the most serious financial collapse since the Great Depression or of Governor Romney’s activities at Bain Capital, the voters can focus on the issues. Paul Ryan has done something that…