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Inflation: Comparing Trump and Biden...

Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there's one potentially glaring problem for them, as illustrated by our friends at Unleash Prosperity...

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Fiscal Gap Worse Than Fiscal Cliff
By Ashton Ellis
Thursday, December 13 2012
Negotiations to avoid the fiscal cliff are understandably focusing on whether to cut or raise taxes and spending.  But those issues are secondary.  The real problem facing the federal budget is the unsustainable cost of entitlement programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.  If structural reforms aren’t made soon, the burden on future taxpayers will overwhelm any tax-and-spending deal reached now.  In a recent report, the General Accounting Office (GAO) analyzed two scenarios that show how little difference the current focus on tax rates and spending levels…
 
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