From North Dakota To New York – Freedom In The 50 States

Every two years the 50 states compete for the title of “Most Free State,” and George Mason University’s Mercatus Center rankings based on 200 factors generalized under Fiscal Policy, Regulatory Policy, and Personal Freedom, provide significant color on just how free...

Trillion Dollar Coin: Posts on Legality and Constitutionality

http://newsdoors.blogspot.com/2013/01/trillion-dollar-coin-posts-on-legality.html Trillion Dollar Coin: Posts on Legality and Constitutionality Enthusiasm for using Platinum Coin Seigniorage (PCS) to produce a Trillion Dollar Coin, or coins totaling a few trillion...

Meltdown

  America is on an unsustainable trajectory, and emergency action is needed at once to reverse course, if it is still possible. I have written about this circumstance for over a year, including publishing...

Tea Party's Math and Clinton Policies

This is my full response to the people in the Tea Party movement who are agitating for more tax cuts or claim that tax cuts have always resulted in prosperity. When Clinton raised taxes on higher incomes in a serious effort to tackle the deficit, that increased investor...

The United States is drowning in Government Debt

Congress has voted yet again to raise the federal debt ceiling. The U.S. Treasury has issued urgent warnings.

The Weight-Watchers Test for Government Spending

If you spent more this year than you did last year, expenditures went up.  It doesn't matter if they went up slower than everybody else's.  If you gain ten pounds, you are still fatter, even if the neighbors gained 20!

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