Posted by Jamison Beuerman on June 22, 2010Commentary: Don’t Blame Jindal for Budget CrisisLately, “draconian” appears to be the mot juste for Governor Jindal’s widely-contested budget cuts. In [...]Read more
Posted by Jamison Beuerman on June 16, 2010Commentary: We Don’t Need to Fix the Subsidized State, But Discard It AltogetherOne of the best editorials of the year appeared in the New York Times recently courtesy of Ross Douthat. [...]Read more
Posted by Jamison Beuerman on June 14, 2010Commentary: Will America Heed the Warnings from Europe?Throughout Europe, the younger populace is making the painful realization that they are shouldering the [...]Read more
Posted by Jamison Beuerman on June 11, 2010Commentary: Financial Disclosure of Stacy Head Recall Reveals Symptoms of a Broken SystemThe report in the Times-Picayune on the financial disclosure of last year’s futile effort to depose [...]Read more
Posted by Jamison Beuerman on June 10, 2010Commentary: Employment Numbers a Mirage, Emphasize Need for Fiscal ReformAs you may have seen in the news, the U.S. economy added just over 431,000 jobs in May. Unfortunately, [...]Read more
Posted by Robert Rosamond on June 10, 2010State Budget Crises: Why They Matter and Ideas for Fixing ThemThe Mercatus Center at George Mason University recently released a policy brief that offers suggestions [...]Read more
Posted by Jamison Beuerman on April 21, 2010Commentary: Two Perspectives on the Budget Deficit (And One is Wrong)A report by the Louisiana Budget Project on the state’s budget deficit, and a subsequent rebuttal [...]Read more
Posted by Jennifer Moreale on March 28, 2010Wall Street Not the Only Place for Taxpayer-Funded BonusesBonuses are in the news again, but this time the focus is on the government. The Times Picayune quotes a [...]Read more
Posted by Jennifer Moreale on March 23, 2010Deficits Provide Opportunity to Weed Out Failing ProgramsDespite Gov. Jindal’s spending cut in late December, Jan Moller reports in the Times Picayune on a [...]Read more