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 »

Today in Washington – December 7, 2010

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  December 7th at 12:00 PM  | 

Conservatives disagree as to whether the tax deal cut between the White House and Capitol Hill’s leaders is a good deal for America.  Some conservatives argue that the new congress could have forced a long term deal on extending tax relief permanently for all Americans.  Some conservatives are happy to get some tax relief before tax season starts on January 1st and believe that it is the best we could | Read More »

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 »