Comments on: It’s Simple to Balance the Budget with Modest Spending Restraint

By: Open letter to President Obama (Part 344) Washington’s dishonest budget math | The Daily Hatch

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:48:16 +0000

[…] all that’s really needed to bring red ink under control is a modest bit of spending restraint. This video is from 2010, but the analysis is still completely relevant […]

By: Open letter to President Obama (Part 342) | The Daily Hatch

Open letter to President Obama (Part 342) | The Daily Hatch — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:52:37 +0000

[…] tax cuts can be made permanent and red ink can be wiped out in just 10 years so long as politicians simply control the growth of federal spending so that outlays don’t grow faster than 2.5 percent e…. Other nations have shown that this type of spending restraint is very successful, while no nation […]

By: Open letter to President Obama (Part 324) Higher Taxes Mean Bigger Government, not Lower Deficits | The Daily Hatch

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:52:08 +0000

[…] They tell us that tax increases are necessary, but even CBO data shows that the budget can be balanced in just 10 years if politicians merely limit federal spending so that it grows by “only” 2.5 percent per year. […]

By: Open letter to President Obama (Part 320) | The Daily Hatch

Open letter to President Obama (Part 320) | The Daily Hatch — Thu, 16 May 2013 06:38:20 +0000

[…] But doing a better job than the remedial students is damning with faint praise. Just in case you’re tempted to grade them on a curve, just remember that balancing the budget without tax increases doesn’t require any heavy lifting. All policymakers have to do is limit the growth of spending so it grows by an average of 2.5 percent annually over the next decade. […]

By: Open letter to President Obama (Part 242) « HaltingArkansasLiberalswithTruth

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 13:00:14 +0000

[...] It’s Simple to Balance the Budget with Modest Spending Restraint [...]

By: What’s the Best Term for Describing Obamanomics and Obamacare? « International Liberty

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:35:34 +0000

[...] only is he a successful, job-creating entrepreneur, but he also cited my work (specifically, this budget analysis) when interviewed by the statists at Mother [...]

By: If Spending Is Capped So It Grows at the Rate of Inflation, the Budget Is Balanced in 2018 « International Liberty

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:57:51 +0000

[...] more revenue, the CBO numbers from last August showed that the budget could be balanced if spending was restrained so that it grew by 2.5 percent per year for a 10-year [...]

By: The Sequester May Not Be ‘Fair,’ but It’s Real and It Would Slow the Growth of Government | lessbull.com

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:35:30 +0000

[...] restraining the budget so that it grows 2.5 percent annually, for instance, is all that would be needed to balance the budget in 10 years. Not big budget cuts. Not small budget cuts. Just a bit of measly fiscal [...]

By: The Sequester May Not Be “Fair,” but It’s Real and It Would Slow the Growth of Government « International Liberty

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:41:36 +0000

By: Whole Foods CEO Welcomes Climate Change, Warns of Fascism » The Daily Catch

Whole Foods CEO Welcomes Climate Change, Warns of Fascism » The Daily Catch — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:37:39 +0000

[...] I said about eliminating the deficit within 10 years is true—see [this analysis]. I also don’t believe my position on governmental spending is radical at all. You are [...]

By: If I Had Been The Person Interviewing Whole Foods CEO John Mackey | Bakunin Hill

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 07:37:06 +0000

[...] What I said about eliminating the deficit within 10 years is true—see [this analysis]. I also don’t believe my position on governmental spending is radical at all. You are [...]

By: Lanka Frontline Whole Foods CEO: 'climate change is not necessarily bad' » Lanka Frontline

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 01:15:07 +0000

[...] I said about eliminating the deficit within 10 years is true—see [this analysis [7]]. I also don’t believe my position on governmental spending is radical at all. You are [...]

By: The Never-Ending Class Warfare Crusade « International Liberty

The Never-Ending Class Warfare Crusade « International Liberty — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:09:31 +0000

[...] I make my typical point about how we can balance the budget if we merely limit federal spending so that it grows 2.5 percent annually. In other words, Mitchell’s Golden Rule leads to good [...]

By: Quotes of the Day and Some Advice to Republicans | We Can Do Better

Quotes of the Day and Some Advice to Republicans | We Can Do Better — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 01:31:23 +0000

[...] here to read about Dan Mitchell’s 2.5% idea. Dan is a super smart and easy to understand economist [...]

By: Republicans need to stand up to President Obama on fiscal cliff « HaltingArkansasLiberalswithTruth

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 22:59:23 +0000

[...] that I can say with complete confidence. We don’t need a tax increase to balance the budget. We can get rid of red ink in just 10 years simply restraining spending so that it grows by only 2.5 percent per [...]

By: There’s No Good Outcome to the Fiscal Cliff Fight « International Liberty

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 18:00:38 +0000

By: A Swiss-Style Spending Cap Would Have Prevented the Current Fiscal Mess in America « International Liberty

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:45:20 +0000

[...] I’ve crunched the numbers to show that we could balance the budget in just 10 years if we just limited spending so that it grew by “only” 2.5 percent annually. [...]

By: Republicans seem to give in most of the time on spending issues « HaltingArkansasLiberalswithTruth

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:11:25 +0000

[...] don’t need a tax increase. We can balance the budget simply by limiting spending so that it grows by “only” 2.5 percent annually. As I say to Cavuto, the White House is pushing higher taxes in order to enable a bigger burden of [...]

By: New Research from Finland’s Central Bank Confirms that Government Spending Is Causing Stagnation in Europe « International Liberty

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:09:43 +0000

[...] it doesn’t actually take much to move policy back in the right direction. A modest bit of fiscal restraint can solve the short-run challenge and some well-crafted entitlement reform can avert the long-run [...]

By: Political arguments against higher taxes from Dan Mitchell « HaltingArkansasLiberalswithTruth

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:17:01 +0000

[...] tax cuts can be made permanent and red ink can be wiped out in just 10 years so long as politicians simply control the growth of federal spending so that outlays don’t grow faster than 2.5 percent e…. Other nations have shown that this type of spending restraint is very successful, while no nation [...]

By: Why can’t people in Washington speak in such a way that others can understand? « HaltingArkansasLiberalswithTruth

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:50:13 +0000

[...] all that’s really needed to bring red ink under control is a modest bit of spending restraint. This video is from 2010, but the analysis is still completely relevant [...]

By: Ignore the Hyenas and the Wildebeest too. « American Elephants

Ignore the Hyenas and the Wildebeest too. « American Elephants — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 04:39:57 +0000

By: For both Policy Reasons and Political Reasons, the Fiscal Cliff Is Better than Surrender « International Liberty

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 15:24:59 +0000

By: Why Republicans Should Keep Their No-Tax-Hike Promises

Why Republicans Should Keep Their No-Tax-Hike Promises — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 19:12:12 +0000

[...] cuts can be made permanent and red ink can be wiped out in just 10 years so long as politicians simply control the growth of federal spending so that outlays don’t grow faster than 2.5 percent e…. Other nations have shown that this type of spending restraint is very successful, while no nation [...]

By: Reasons Why Republicans Should Keep their No-Tax-Hike Promises

Reasons Why Republicans Should Keep their No-Tax-Hike Promises — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:16:53 +0000

By: Don’t Get Bamboozled by the Fiscal Cliff: Five Policy Reasons and Five Political Reasons Why Republicans Should Keep their No-Tax-Hike Promises « International Liberty

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 14:29:59 +0000

[...] tax cuts can be made permanent and red ink can be wiped out in just 10 years so long as politicians simply control the growth of federal spending so that outlays don’t grow faster than 2.5 perce…. Other nations have shown that this type of spending restraint is very successful, while no nation [...]

By: Don’t Get Bamboozled by the Fiscal Cliff: Five Policy Reasons and Five Political Reasons Why Republicans Should Not Break their No-Tax-Hike Promises « International Liberty

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 14:23:25 +0000

[...] tax cuts can be made permanent and red ink can be wiped out in just 10 years so long as politicians simply control the growth of federal spending so that outlays don’t grow faster than 2.5 perce…. Other nations have shown that this type of spending restraint is very successful, while no nation [...]

By: Exposing Washington’s Dishonest Budget Math « International Liberty

Exposing Washington’s Dishonest Budget Math « International Liberty — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 15:00:51 +0000

[...] all that’s really needed to bring red ink under control is a modest bit of spending restraint. This video is from 2010, but the analysis is still completely relevant [...]

By: Train Wreck Approaching… | Tennesseans Watching Federal & State Government

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 03:47:32 +0000

[...] that simply requires somemodest spending restraint to address the short run problem and someintelligently designed entitlement reform to solve the [...]

By: Explaining in the New York Post that the Fiscal Cliff Is Just a Speed Bump on the Road to a Real Crisis « International Liberty

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:10:14 +0000

[...] that simply requires some modest spending restraint to address the short run problem and some intelligently designed entitlement reform to solve the [...]