Category: balanced budget

Aging Research Is Key to Balancing the Budget

Commentary Last week, I wrote that the path back to a balanced budget could not be simple stinginess, but smart reforms that produce long term returns of higher GDP and lower government spending. For instance, in the 1990s, I helped author four straight balanced budgets, during which we doubled the budget of the National Institutes…


Opinion: Major Parties’ Big-Spending Promises Mean Canada Won’t See Balanced Budget Any Time Soon

Commentary Spending promises from all of the major parties in the election have been pouring in hard and heavy. And with three weeks left in the campaign, we can expect proposed spending to reach even more staggering levels, as party leaders try to buy the electoral love of citizens. While the parties are long on…


Major Parties’ Big-Spending Promises Mean Canada Won’t See Balanced Budget Any Time Soon

Commentary Spending promises from all of the major parties in the election have been pouring in hard and heavy. And with three weeks left in the campaign, we can expect proposed spending to reach even more staggering levels, as party leaders try to buy the electoral love of citizens. While the parties are long on…


It’s Time to Balance the Budget

Commentary Inflation has started to rise. The 5.4 percent increase in June is a disastrous beginning to a potentially devastating cycle. The fact that the standard of living dropped 1.7 percent for the average family in June is a disaster in human terms since the working poor and middle class will lose purchasing power while…