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mptions going forward federal revenue by 2030 won't be able to cover much more than spending on interest and the big entitlement programs (Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and health insurance subsidies). By 2040, it won't even adequately cover those. Barring serious reforms, the numbers would worsen

may have been stack during the two latest economic bubbles in favor of those running the house. People forget that during the arguments in favor of Reaganomics, prominent Republican economists publicly claimed that deficits didn't matter, and during the Bush/Cheney Administration there was almost universal

ers such as Florida Gov. Rick Scott who last week broke with party orthodoxy -- joining six other Republican governors — and agreeing to accept the Medicaid expansion funded by Obamacare. Recently a number of prominent conservatives with national profiles (Louisiana's Bobby Jindal, South Carolina's Nikki

who supported income equality, gay and women's rights, as well as an economy that grows bottom up instead of trickling down, as thirty-plus years of Reaganomics has proven a disaster for the Middle Class. Mitt Romney and his supporters pooh-pooh President Obama as a community organizer. But if they think th

net since Medicare. Mr. Romney doesn't have an economic plan at all, but he is determined not just to repeal Obamacare but to impose savage cuts in Medicaid. So never mind all those bullet points. Think instead about the 45 million Americans who either will or won't receive essential health care, dependi

e Reagan, he also began his term with an economic slump, then claimed that the recovery from that slump proved the success of his policies. And like Reaganomics — but more quickly — Bushonomics has ended in grief with the economy in free-fall on a way to a full-fledged depression. The root of the problem ca

icans gained health care coverage under the A.C.A./Obamacare. Health experts say most would lose that coverage under the proposal. Let's start with Medicaid. Obamacare expanded the program to cover 11 million more poor Americans in 31 states and the District of Columbia. The Republican bill would end the

onally or not, serves to concentrate wealth at the top by extracting it from everywhere else. This belief system is called variously neoliberalism, Reaganomics, the Chicago School, and trickle-down economics. It is easily recognized by its signature ideas: deregulation; privatization; cut taxes on the rich;