Our unsustainable future: Can we handle the truth?

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The truth is that we must radically optimize government (including cutting waste and eliminating tax loopholes and noncompliance) and will still likely need to raise taxes and cut or modify services to stay solvent. It’s not going to be fun or easy. But can we handle the truth? Continue Reading

Does size matter?

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The Gulf oil spill comes in the context of a series of events that have highlighted two distinct and competing visions of the role of business and federal government in the United States. But to me, the question of whether government is too big or too small is irrelevant. The question is whether it does its job. Continue Reading