Deficit – Delaware Liberal

I’ll Just Drop This Here

By pandora April 17, 20153 Comments

On Thursday, the House voted to repeal the estate tax which would... increase the deficit by $269 billion over a decade.

Spending, Taxes, Deficit: Lower Now Than Inauguration Day

By xstryker May 16, 20124 Comments

The facts, as laid out by Think Progress. Reality, as we all know, has a liberal bias.

On Deficits and Debts; or Don’t Believe the Entitlements Hype

By cassandra_m May 22, 20114 Comments

The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities continues its yeoman work on documenting where the federal Government's deficits AND Debts come from. Even though most of the readers here likely get this story, it has yet to make much of a dent in the media narrative, which continues to flog the business about entitlement spending being the thing that is running our fiscal futures off of the rails.

RyanCare Is Very Unpopular

By Unstable Isotope April 20, 20116 Comments

Paul Ryan is finding his plan to gut Medicare is not very popular, even in his home turf.

Why This Tax Cut Deal Sucks

By liberalgeek December 7, 201082 Comments

This was the hill to die on. If you have any desire to cut the deficit, you don't extend these cuts. For months, Obama has fought off attacks from the…

This Is More Like It

By Unstable Isotope November 17, 20102 Comments

Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a liberal Democrat and member of the Deficit Reduction Committee presents her own deficit reduction plan. What a shock - it doesn't steal from Social Security to give tax cuts to the rich.

All The Cool Kids Are Playing

By Unstable Isotope November 15, 201030 Comments

The New York Times has a tool to look at the effect of various proposals to reduce the deficit.

Born-Again Deficit Hawks

By Unstable Isotope July 14, 201012 Comments

Matt Yglesias shows that there is zero historical evidence that Republicans care about deficits.

Strutting Budget Peacocks

By Unstable Isotope July 13, 201062 Comments

John Kyl can't accept an addition of $33 billion to the deficit (a 3% increase) to help the unemployed. However, addition of $678 billion to the deficit is no problem since it's tax cuts for the rich.

File This Under D’oh

By pandora June 8, 20106 Comments

Via HuffPo: Three-quarters of registered voters think Congress should forget about the deficit and preserve extended unemployment benefits and health insurance subsidies for laid-off workers, according to a new poll…

Mythbusters

By Unstable Isotope April 14, 201024 Comments

There is a lot of persistent myths around about debt, deficit and taxes that are fueled by the GOP. One myth is that Obama is fiscally irresponsible and that his…

Republicans Want To Raise Your Taxes

By Unstable Isotope March 11, 20106 Comments

Paul Ryan is a Wisconsin Republican and a rising star in the party. He's the ranking member of the House Budget Committee and several weeks ago he unveiled his plan…