Commentary: Ryan Budget a Monumental Opportunity for Reigning in Federal Deficits

By Jamison Beuerman

04/07/2011

Democratic leaders are hounding the Ryan budget for its supposed severity and ideologically-driven agenda. Yet it is the most serious effort to curb record deficits and debts, by either party, in decades.

TAGS: Federal budget, Federal Budget Deficit, Paul Ryan

Truth of Government Accounting on Ringside Politics

By Fergus Hodgson

02/17/2011

Sheila Weinberg, of the Institute for Truth in Accounting, unravels the illusions of federal and state accounting that conceal deficits.

TAGS: Federal budget, Institute for Truth in Accounting, Jeff Crouere, Ringside Politics, Sheila Weinberg

A Tax Plan for Our Brighter Future

A Tax Plan for Our Brighter Future paper-digital In Louisiana’s Comeback: A Tax Reform for Our Brighter Future, the Pelican Institute identifies the state’s significant tax problems and proposes a path to set the state in a brighter direction, including flattening the personal and corporate income taxes to 3.5% rates, reducing the number of tax preferences, eliminating...

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