A Budget Deficit

Obama's big-government plan and the GOP's uninspiring alternative.

You can learn a lot from a budget. President Obama's $3.6 trillion behemoth isn't just a bunch of numbers and tables. It's a vision of where America ought to be in the future. Obama would ramp up government spending in health care, energy, and education. Taxpayers would foot the bill for a larger, more intrusive government that would claim to improve the quality of life and reduce inequality.

Annual deficits and a growing public debt burden would ... Full Story »

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