Brian Riedl
Brian Riedl
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The Senate is clearly dragging its feet on spending reform. Some senators have called for instead reversing the tax cuts.
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The current trend points to tax increases in the long run. The political will to make the difficult decisions on spending is lacking.
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Mike Pence has done a fabulous job leading the Republican Study Committee. They have put out a realistic and credible and specific budget proposal to get spending under control when virtually no one else is talking about it.
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More than anything else, this one program threatens the long-term federal budget.
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NASA represents something important in the national psyche. Given that, there isn't a lot of hunger to cut NASA substantially, nor to cripple their ability to explore space.
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Montana is getting more highway pork, but so is every other state.
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The more controversial bills will most assuredly end up in a lame-duck Congress.
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Congress has no incentive to rein in pork, because pork helps lawmakers get campaign contributions and get re-elected. It is entirely predictable that Congress would create the illusion of reform while retaining the system that allows them to sell government grants for campaign contributions.
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In the absence of even mentioning tax reform in his State of the Union address, it may be presumptuous to assume a revenue-neutral AMT fix after 2007.
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It's about time lawmakers sacrifice pork projects that essentially serve as taxpayer-financed re-election advertisements.
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This ... bill threatens to become another symbol of irresponsible runaway spending.
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Sacrifice? ... At this time, there is none.
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As bad as the last five years have been, it's going to get even worse the next five years.
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There is no shortage of candidates for elimination. There is only the shortage of political will to make the difficult decisions.