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Educational freedom, pro-growth tax reform, and personalized health care are among the most important priorities being held back by federal and state governments’ wasteful spending and excessive debt. Effective budget targets can help policymakers do better and unleash even more American potential.
In this episode of American Potential, host Jeff Crank sits down with Kurt Couchman, Senior Policy Fellow at Americans for Prosperity, to dive into AFP’s hard-hitting report, the “Bidenflation Blame Game.”
Reasonable budget targets like structural balance rules, applied to a comprehensive budget
without fear of shutdowns or a tilted playing field, can boost the legislature’s ability to deliver
freedom, prosperity, and opportunity to the people of Kansas.
Comments for the record on the September 11, 2024 hearing on “Congress and the CBO: Examining Ways to Improve CBO” Before the House Committee on the Budget
Upgrading federal budget and authorization practices can unlock doors to success and help Congress more efficiently exercise its proper powers.
Americans are frustrated with Congress. They see the festering bloat, discoordination, and waste and think Congress ignores obvious problems. The growing debt burden makes us poorer, crowds out other priorities, and threatens stagnation or worse.
Congress doesn’t make policy holistically. But it should. Today’s piecemeal process limits the ability of the people’s representatives to improve the structure and finance of the government’s activities.
We’ll talk about shrinkflation, government spending, growing deficits, the cost-of-living crisis, and how inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. Kurt’s recent report on these issues is called “Bidenflation Blame Game: How Big-Spending Politicians Scapegoat Business.”
Today, Americans for Prosperity (AFP) released a new economic report, responding to lawmakers’ attempts to dodge accountability for rubber-stamping President Biden’s economic policies by blaming businesses for increased consumer prices.
