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The mindless canard stating as unexplained fact that it would be worse to expand the federal government by a third in order to accommodate single-payer healthcare insurance than it is to have private, for-profit health insurance companies playing this role instead

…estimate by The Wall Street Journal, Sanders’ spending plans would cost $18 trillion over 10 years, increasing the federal government’s size by roughly a third. He would create a single-payer…

The hypocrisy of most deficit discussions

…be reduced as the economy grows, people with jobs pay taxes, and government spending that was used to supplement inadequate private spending can be cut back. Infrastructure spending provides that…

District Courts Push-Back

All The Litigation – by Joyce Vance Civil Discourse At least one federal judge isn’t intimidated by Trump cronies attacking federal judges who have ruled against the new administration during…

Tri-Committee Health Care Bill Deficit Neutral

spending changes that CBO estimates would save $219 billion over the same period, and by revenue provisions that JCT estimates would increase federal revenues by about $583 billion over those…