federal debt
The Unnoticed Trillion Dollar Budget Gap
In the 1980s critics of overspending pointed to record deficits (averaging $167 billion a year then) and were often met with replies from supply-siders—“Don’t worry about federal deficits. They’re big enough of take care of themselves.” President Reagan even uttered…
A Call for Action on Social Security’s Solvency Dilemma
The Concord Coalition, a non-partisan fiscal advocacy organization serving as a source of information on the risks and consequences of a growing federal debt and unsustainable fiscal policies, recently issued a “call to action” stressing the importance of taking action…