Michael D. Brown

During last night’s radio program I had a discussion with a caller about how much wealth confiscation it would take to fund the federal deficit. The genesis of that call was the recent CBO announcement of the fiscal year-end deficit and it’s scoring of Obama’s millionaire surtax. Seems that surtax will cover four months of [...]

Without naming the blog, one of the regular ones I read summed up why they think the approval of the Boehner bill tonight is a victory for Republicans: Are we better off that the Boehner bill passed the House? I say absolutely, the narrative is that the House passed a debt ceiling extension and the [...]

Perspective is important. I have long contended that it is difficult to fathom the staggering amount of debt this country (meaning you and me) owes. $14 trillion is the latest national debt figure. But when quickly refer to $14 trillion in a sentence where someone claims to cut $100 billion, the numbers 14 and 100 [...]

Joplin, Missouri, is the latest victim of Mother Nature. Sitting in my hotel room in New York this morning I heard officials from FEMA giving out the 800-621-FEMA number for individuals seeking assistance. After the 9/11 attacks President Bush announced, and Congress rapidly approved, billions of dollars in taxpayer dollars to rebuild lower Manhattan, the [...]