The United States has $20 trillion in debt as of February 12, 2018. The current fiscal year deficit is $715 billion and we’re only at…
Posts tagged as “federal budget”
Nobody should be pleased when the United States’ federal government shuts down over congressional squabbling. A shutdown does not expose how little we need government.…
Americans, especially exurban and rural Americans, distrust the federal government to spend tax revenues wisely. The great divide in the United States is Urban-vs-Rural —…
Though the contemporary Republican Party has never been libertarian enough for me or many others focused on economic issues, we at least imagined the GOP…
The marginal and effective U.S. income tax rates mentioned in my 2011 post The 90 Percent Tax Myth have been supported by research conducted by Thomas Piketty…
The United States’ federal budget spends a lot of money: between $3.5 and $4.0 trillion annually. How much do citizens of the United States earn…
One of the more popular (or infamous) posts here on Almost Classical is “The 90% Tax Rate Myth.” It explores the differences between marginal and…