Sunday, April 3, 2011

Politics and Government Links

Budget-Slashing Governors See Poll Numbers Plummet

Niall Ferguson's Complete And Definitive Guide To The Sovereign Debt Crisis

Who wants a union? Not Southern autoworkers, it seems

This Is The County With America's Highest Property Tax

Why We Should Eliminate the Corporate Income Tax

Stop this race to the bottom on corporate tax

Despite pressure to reduce national debt, few in Congress use payback program

How Partisan Groups Are Using Sound Bites To Discredit Public Figures

Here Are The 10 Most Conservative States

The more things change, the more they stay the same

I’d enjoy reading the citation of constitutional authority for this

Where Obama’s White Vote Matters Less in 2012

We've Become a Nation of Takers, Not Makers: More Americans work for the government than in manufacturing, farming, fishing, forestry, mining and utilities combined.

Legal scholars examine the U.S. high court's 'Supreme Mistakes'

How You Can Pull a GE on Taxes

Republican policies don’t care about poor people

Skunked
  • Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security now account for 44% of total federal spending and are steadily rising.
  • Previous Congresses (and Administrations) have relied on the assumption that we can grow our way out of this onerous debt burden.
  • Unless entitlements are substantially reformed, the U.S. will likely default on its debt; not in conventional ways, but via inflation, currency devaluation and low to negative real interest rates.

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