• Paul Ryan's reality check on budget hysteria: GOP plan bolsters the safety net May 18, 2011 - The ink wasn't even dry on the proposal when the wailing began. You might be excused for thinking the safety net was being dismantled. One Democratic senator wondered aloud whether the bill would prompt the widespread auctioning of abandoned children into slavery. A senior Democrat in the House of R... More

• Four Pro-Growth Axioms To Avert Shared Scarcity May 17, 2011 - A phrase you hear in Washington a lot these days is “shared sacrifice.” To an alarming degree, the budget debate has degenerated into a game of green-eyeshade arithmetic, with many in Washington demanding that we trade ephemeral spending restraints for large, permanent tax increases. The only winner... More

• The budget debate we all deserve May 15, 2011 - Despite Washington coming to grips with the fact that the debt threat is real, policymakers still are not having the debate Americans deserve. The talk is too often restricted to "shared sacrifice." This sets up a debate where we are really just arguing over whom to hurt and how best to manage the d... More

• A budget for the 21st century April 14, 2011 - This week the House of Representatives will take the first real step in addressing our looming fiscal crisis by bringing “The Path to Prosperity,” a budget resolution for next year and beyond, to the House floor. This budget offers a clear contrast to the president’s speech on Wednesday. It offers a... More

• Charting a path to prosperity March 10, 2011 - When it comes to the generation-defining challenge of our time - the explosive growth of our national debt - the president has failed to lead. His budget proposal doubles the debt, raises taxes by $1.6 trillion and locks in spending at historically high levels. We can do better. The American story i... More

• House GOP committed to cut spending, reform government and grow the economy February 20, 2011 - Last week, the president offered a disappointing step in the wrong direction with a budget that locks in Washington's spending spree and adds $13 trillion to the debt. His budget would stifle job growth today and cripple future generations with a crushing burden of debt and taxes. Job creators under... More

• The Pro-Growth Case for Spending Cuts February 13, 2011 - When House Republicans pledged to make cutting spending our top priority, we knew it wouldn’t be easy. The President and his party remain committed to the notion that the best way to create jobs and prosperity is to raise your taxes, spend your money, and then borrow some more money and spend that. ... More

• Looking forward to role righting federal budget December 28, 2010 - Every American family has a budget. Each of us must account for what we spend—for our apartment or home, groceries, utilities, clothes, transportation, medical and child care—and our savings for the future. We have to prioritize—and often this requires difficult trade-offs. But if you spend without ... More

• Opposing view on fiscal reform: Address health care costs December 5, 2010 - The Fiscal Commission has been a success. Due in large part to the leadership of co-chairmen Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, the commission's deficit-reduction proposal has launched a critical debate about the biggest problem facing this country: how to get the federal government's fiscal house in ... More

• Refocus The Fed On Price Stability Instead Of Bailing Out Fiscal Policy November 30, 2010 - The Federal Reserve's recent announcement that it will purchase $600 billion in Treasury securities has ignited a firestorm of criticism, opening a much-needed debate over the central bank's proper role in economic policy decisions. We share the concerns that many economists and policymakers have ex... More

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