fiscal year

UNCERTAINTIES ABOUT OUR WEATHERVANE TAX POLICIES… (are what keeps the RPM level of our economic machinery barely turning above…idle) Aside from all the usual campaign blather and noise being made in an election year like this one, the most striking

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THEY ACTUALLY ACHIEVED BI-PARTISAN AGREEMENT (…because Congress has never had a spending bill…it didn’t like) Just before closing down its 2015 session for the Christmas and New Year holidays, Congress passed a trillion-plus dollar spending bill to fund the government

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A GOLD PLATED CADILLAC SPENDING PLAN (…using a lot of zeroes for bling…) The House has managed to cobble together a “bipartisan” budget of 1.1 Trillion dollars, which the Senate is likely to more or less endorse, much to the

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