Budget and Spending

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Federal spending has grown rapidly over the last decade, leading to substantial budget deficits that have crippled the economy and financially harmed Americans.

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The Road to Inflation: How an Unprecedented Federal Spending Spree Created Economic Turmoil

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Funding Leftism: The Biden’s Administration’s Bureaucratic Radicalism

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David Ditch

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Needlessly Negative Edwin J. Feulner, PhD

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Supplement to "The Impact of Government Spending on Economic Growth" Daniel J. Mitchell, Ph.D.

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Economic Policies are Moral Issues Rebecca Hagelin

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Past. Present! Future? Economic Growth in America

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The Economic Effects of President Bush's and Senator Daschle's Economic Stimu...

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How the Economic Stimulus Proposals of the Administration, the House, and the...

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Director, Center for Data Analysis

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David Ditch

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Richard Stern

Director, Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget

Thomas Dans

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