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Economy Declined as Government Spending Rose

Reporters Distort the Truth About Government Spending

Government Spending on Higher Education Reaches an All-Time High

Advocates for Social Welfare Benefits Turn the Truth About Federal Spending on Its Head

Do Large National Debts Harm Economies?

Poll Reveals Voters Misinformed About Key Issues

Poll Reveals Voters are Uninformed About Major Issues

The “Inflation Reduction Act” Will Do Almost Nothing That Joe Manchin Says It Will

Pre-Election Poll: Voters Broadly Misinformed About Key Issues

Fact-Based Poll Reveals Fictions Believed by Voters

Bernie Sanders’ Education Plan is Rife With Deceit

Federal Government’s 2017 Fiscal Shortfall Is 74% Worse Than Reported Budget Deficit

Federal Fiscal Shortfall Nears $1 Million Per Household

Federal Fiscal Shortfall Surges Past $100 Trillion

Warren Buffett’s Fraudulent Tax Claims (Part 2)

The National Debt Is Rising—Not Declining

Audit Reveals Federal Finances Are Far Worse Than Publicized Figures

Effects of Immigration From Impoverished Nations

New Treasury Data Shows Federal Shortfall of $670,000 Per U.S. Household

The Impact of Obamacare and Ryancare on Medicare

Leading Progressives Blame the Wrong Culprit for Rising College Costs

Treasury Data Reveals Federal Shortfall of $614,000 per U.S. Household

Has Government Turned Us Into a Nation of Makers and Takers?

What the $20 Trillion National Debt Means to You

Media Misinformation About Arming Teachers

Maddow’s Tax and Deficit Doubletalk

Congressional Records Prove Biden’s Student Loan Cancellations Are Illegal

How Hard and Effectively do Americans Work?

AOC’s Baseless Accusation That the U.S. Is a “Brutal, Barbarian Society”

Krugman and Obama Mislead on Debts and Deficits

Myths about School Choice and Betsy DeVos

Education Funding and Results

Public School Teachers Are Paid Far More Than Commonly Reported

Five Fables About Medicare

Public School Funding Per Student Averages 80% More Than Private Schools

Five Vital Facts About Obama’s Contraception Compromise

Blame for the National Debt

Can We Prevent a Debt-Driven Economic Collapse Without Reforming Entitlements?

Debt Versus Deficit: Obama’s Bait and Switch

Are Today’s Newborns the Luckiest Generation in U.S. History?

Obama’s Plan for Tackling the Deficit

Paul Krugman’s Claims About the Dangers of Government Debt

Donald Trump and the Media Agree on Middle-Class Income, and They are Both Wrong

Social Security Has Been Boosted, Not Looted

Lack of Assimilation is Economically Harming Latino Immigrants and Society

Maximum Facts About the Minimum Wage

A Factual Look at Obama’s Presidency

The School Funding Inequity Farce

2017: The Year in Facts and Falsehoods

The New York Times Regularly Publishes Falsehoods That Spur Violent Unrest and Civic Dysfunction

Taking Social Security Off-Budget

Social Ills That Plague African Americans Coincide With Leftism, Not Racism

Think Progress Exaggerates Child Hunger by 8,000%

The Real “Big Money” in Politics

Reuters’ Definition of “Lower Income”

How Biofuel Profiteers Fleece Average Americans

Current National Debt Situation is the Worst in U.S. History

The Costs and Savings of Changing Social Security to a Personal Ownership System

Does the Affordable Care Act Ration Medicare?

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…the United States. This figure doesn’t include state government spending on administration, the unfunded liabilities of pensions for government employees, and the costs of post-employment non-pension benefits (like health insurance)….

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Equally divided among every household in the United States, how large was the gap between government spending and revenues in 2021? In 2021, federal, state, and local governments spent $9.2…

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What portion of all federal government spending is for means-tested welfare programs? In 2021, 23% of all federal government spending was for means-tested welfare programs. This figure has risen from…

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In 2021, what portion of the U.S. economy was consumed by federal, state, and local government spending? In 2021, U.S. federal, state, and local governments spent a combined total of…

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Adjusted for inflation, has the average government funding for each college student increased or decreased over the past decade? Inflation-adjusted government funding for each college student has grown by 15%…

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How much larger are the federal government’s debts, liabilities, and unfunded obligations than its annual revenues? Balanced against the value of its commercial assets, the federal government had $124.1 trillion…

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…output. The vast bulk of this debt is due to increased spending on social programs. The burdens of government debt can manifest gradually or abruptly in the form of inflation,…

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What portion of the U.S. population is regularly enrolled in Medicaid, the federal government’s primary healthcare program for low-income people? The average portion of the U.S. population receiving Medicaid benefits…

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…“causes inflation, thereby lowering the purchasing power of existing currency.” Such inflation, which has wide-ranging harmful effects on everyday people, is a common outcome of excessive government spending and borrowing….

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…to default on national debts caused by government spending. Also, regulations can have inflationary effects because they often ban people from using the most economical products and processes. Contrary to…

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In 2021, what portion of all federal government spending was for social programs, such as healthcare, income security, education, housing, and recreation? In 2021, 73% of all federal government spending

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Has federal government spending on means-tested welfare become a larger or smaller share of the federal budget since 1970? In 1970, means-tested welfare was 5.2% of all federal government spending….

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What portion of all federal government spending is for national defense and veterans’ benefits? In 2021, 13% of all federal government spending was for national defense and veterans’ benefits, while…

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