Barry Poulson

For centuries, the commonsense notion of balanced budgets served our nation well. Elected officials as well as citizens accepted the discipline of balanced budgets as the basis for fiscal policy at all levels of government. At the federal…

Every U.S. citizen now owes roughly $100,000 in federal debt. That is the grim news from the most recent study by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). CBO data show that federal debt has been growing at an unsustainable rate for…

Fiscal Rules and ‘Learning by Doing’ - American Thinker <!--/assets/js/load_ads.js?v=2--> <!-- (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s); if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js =…

The Debt Ceiling Fight in Historical Perspective - American Thinker <!--/assets/js/load_ads.js?v=2--> <!-- --> January 28, 2023 House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and his Republican colleagues refuse…