Commentary: Two Perspectives on the Budget Deficit (And One is Wrong)

By Jamison Beuerman
04/21/2010
A report by the Louisiana Budget Project on the state’s budget deficit, and a subsequent rebuttal by Professor Jeffrey Sadow, illuminates the fundamental differences between progressive and conservative economic philosophies. Edward Ashworth of the LBP blames middle-upper class tax breaks for a giant drop in state revenues, which in turn has forced a drop in...

TAGS: Edward Ashworth, Jeffrey Sadow, Louisiana Budget Project