FREEDOM LINE BLOG: Inflation: Comparing Trump and Biden...
Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there'…
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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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August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
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The CBO's Latest Report and the Choice Between Reform and Disorder
By Veronique de Rugy
Thursday, February 19 2026
Despite what progressives have been arguing lately, the United States does not have a tax problem. Federal revenues, even after last year's extension of the Trump tax cuts, are running above their historical average as a share of GDP. What America has is a spending problem so large that the Congressional Budget Office's latest 10-year outlook reads less like a fiscal forecast than a warning label. Between now and 2036, the CBO projects $94.6 trillion in federal spending against $70.2 trillion in revenue, a decadelong deficit of $24.4 trillion. Outlays reached 23.1% of GDP in 2025, nearly two full…
 
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"Which state has the highest retail tire prices in the country? It's not a data point that anyone, as far as we know, compiles, but artificial intelligence suggests that it's California. What we can be sure about, though, is that in about three years, California drivers will be paying more for tires than they are today.Significantly more.It won't happen because the tire makers and retailers will suddenly…[more]
  
 
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