President Obama’s Debt Failsafe Trigger Explained

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  April 20th at 11:00 AM  | 

What is President Barack Obama’s “debt failsafe” trigger? It is a means for liberals in Washington to increase taxes on you in the name of deficit reduction and avoids specific consent of the governed for these tax increases.  If a mechanism to automatically increase taxes is raised by the “Gang of Six,” a bipartisan group working to reduce the deficit, or the President’s bipartisan bicameral negotiating team on reducing | Read More »

The Case for Not Wasting $1 Trillion Dollars

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  February 10th at 04:00 AM  | 

Bartlett to Conservatives – Support Tax Increases and Embrace the Welfare State

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  January 26th at 10:57 AM  | 

Democrat-Light has another cheerleader and his name is Bruce Bartlett.  Bartlett, former Reagan and Bush 41 Treasury official, writes in the Politico today in a piece titled “Conservatives Must to Adapt to the Welfare State” that: If conservatives refuse to participate in the debate over how revenues will be raised, then liberals will do it on their own, which will likely give us much higher tax rates and a | Read More »