Peter Ferrara’s Too-Nice Attack on Phony Washington Budget Deals
By Daniel J. Mitchell
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Peter Ferrara of the Institute for Policy Innovation explains that Washington budget deals don’t work because politicians never follow through on promised spending cuts. This is a very relevant argument, since President Obama’s so-called Deficit Reduction Commission supposedly is considering a deal featuring $3 of spending cuts for every [...]
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