Go to: http://www.massinc.org/index.p... Please read an essay there by Daniel Winslow and the other three [may be more by now} and the "Budget Brief". In my opinion, as per earlier posts of mine, the budget imbalance could be solved … [Read more...]
Give back Bush and Pelosi’s Bribe
Does the idea of accepting the $600 refund currently being promised to many of us by the feds make anybody else very uncomfortable, given that the Iraq war is still raging, the Chinese own about half our country, there are thousands of … [Read more...]
Walking through the Federal Budget Process
The budget process for federal fiscal 2008 began with the release of the President's budget in February. Congress then approved a budget resolution in May; this resolution is supposed to guide Congress as it considers the appropriations … [Read more...]
Martin Feldstein and the Defense Budget
In an article in the March/April edition of Foreign Affairs, Feldstein, who is the George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard and a former Reagan administration economic advisor, argues that "a substantial increase in defense … [Read more...]
“Results based budgeting” – a different model
For a web site "boosting" this approach: www.psg.usA fellow by the name of David Osborne has written a book on this approach, that I really have not seen enter into the "budget dialogue" here:David Osborne wrote the book on outcome-based … [Read more...]
Will Deval Raise Taxes?
This was in the Globe this morning:Aides to Governor-elect Deval Patrick said yesterday that the state is facing a deficit that could reach $1 billion next year, a looming budget gap that observers say could force Patrick to scale back his … [Read more...]