by Bill King Policy | Jan 3, 2018 | Federal Government Finances, National Economy, Social Security
Daniel Patrick Moynihan once famously quipped that everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. Moynihan’s head would explode in today’s world of alternate political realities that seek to explain the explosion of the national debt...
by Bill King Policy | Dec 27, 2017 | National Politics
A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll shows that Americans favor Democratic control of Congress by a margin of 50%-38%. Ten other polls conducted in the last ten days have found similar results, with the Democrats’ advantage ranging from 9%-18%. The last time the...
by Bill King Policy | Dec 15, 2017 | City Of Houston Finances
For the last several years, I have been occasionally comparing the growth in the City of Houston’s sales taxes to some of its suburban neighbors. Recently I compiled the sales tax records for seven Houston suburbs (Katy, Woodlands, Baytown, Pasadena, League...
by Bill King Policy | Dec 4, 2017 | Federal Government Finances, National Economy
Contrary to the partisan narratives of our two dissembling political parties, federal deficits have been growing steadily since WWII through every administration, with the sole exception of the Clinton administration. The growing deficits have been the result of the...
by Bill King Policy | Nov 29, 2017 | Federal Government Finances
The assertion that tax cuts will spur economic growth is now Republican orthodoxy, incessantly repeated by the party’s leaders and surrogates. Most often, these proponents cite the Reagan tax cuts in the 1980s as proof that cutting taxes will boost the economy. But...
