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J.T. Young served in the Department of Treasury and the Office of Management and Budget from 2001 -2004 and as a Congressional staff member from 1987-2000.

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  • To Be Clinton

    Once Democrats saw Obama as Kennedy; today, they would settle for Clinton.

  • Budget Bloodbath

    Despite anemic economy, the federal government keeps right on growing.

  • Conceding the Ideological Debate

    Ideologically, the Left resembles the emperor who wore no clothes. Why is the Right so reluctant to say so?

  • America’s Policy-Propelled Earthquake

    The economic pressures of social policies have been building for decades.

  • Soaking the Rich

    Taxing the rich can’t solve the deficit problem, controlling spending can.

  • The Left and Progressively Higher Taxes

    For liberals, the tax system gets progressively fairer the more earners pay.

  • Deficits Prompt Revenue Scavenger Hunt

    Left will need to hit the middle class with new taxes to address the deficit.

  • Titanic Spending

    Not since World War II, when America was fighting a global two-front war for its survival, has the government borrowed and spent so much.

  • Squeezing the Budget Balloon

    Wednesday is the last day of the worst fiscal year in America’s history

  • Generations of Debt

    By 2080, when your grandchild enters the workforce, America will be an economic basket-case and your retirement will be impossible.