Apparently, the advisory board whose single task is to find creative ways to cut the federal deficit wants needs more money.

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Clifford Krauss and Matthew L. Wald via The New York Times: The Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency in Louisiana announced Tuesday that, at the request of Gov. Bobby Jindal, the federal Department of Commerce had declared a commercial fisheries failure for the state, allowing commercial fishermen to receive aid from the Economic Development […]

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Michael M. Grynbaum via The New York Times: And the encounters [being spat on], while distressing, appeared to take a surprisingly severe toll: the 51 drivers who went on paid leave after a spitting incident took, on average, 64 days off work — the equivalent of three months with pay. One driver, who was not […]

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Despite the fact that California has been in dire financial straights for at least the last 3 years, is currently in the fiscal shitter, in the midst of a $19.1 billion budget gap with one of the highest unemployment rates in the country, has been compared to the failed euro zone states, is looking to […]

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The other day I wrote about how the governor of South Carolina had vetoed a bill which would raise SC cigarette taxes by $.50 per pack stating, A politician finally understands that placing a large burden on a small set of the population cannot fix our budget problems.  Good for SC. Alas, today the state […]

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It’s not often that the Times prints something worth reading, but I’ll take what I can get. Though there are some deep flaws in Leonhardt’s argument, like the idea that tax hikes should be on the table initially,1 and that government is the best – perhaps only – provider of advanced hospitals, education, etc, the […]

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A politician finally understands that placing a large burden on a small set of the population cannot fix our budget problems.  Good for SC.  Here in the Bluegrass, cigarette taxes used to be amongst the lowest in the nation.  That is until they were raised twice in the beginning of 2009 in a period of […]

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