Federal Budget

What is Happening with the Budget Fight in Washington? Congress has until September 30, 2023, to pass a budget for the fiscal year ending in 2024 but first, they have to vote to raise the debt ceiling to avoid a catastrophic blow to our economy. …

Every year, at this time, we see and hear tax preparation companies tell us about how they will get us a bigger tax refund than their competitors, even though, in reality, ideally, one would neither receive a refund nor owe any additional taxes, because when you get a refund, it…

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. John Maynard Keynes New House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has been engaged in talks with the White House over the past couple weeks, in an effort to prevent the US government from ‘defaulting’ on its…

The Republicans are demanding that the $31.4tn federal debt be reduced and government spending curtailed — thereby giving cover to Republican efforts to hold America hostage by refusing to raise the debt ceiling. When they’re in power, they rack up giant deficits, mainly by cutting taxes on corporations and the wealthy (the same since wealthy investors are the major beneficiaries of corporate tax cuts).

12–13–22 My Federal Budget Proposal I started looking into immigration reform. Whoa. What a mess. I decided to write a light article on the budget before really digging in to the far more complicated mess of immigration. I wish that were a joke. This is way outside my wheelhouse. I’m…

by Ron Ottinger and Melissa Mortiz It’s midterm election time and that is the focus of most conversations in Washington, DC. Beyond encouraging everyone to vote, afterschool and summer programs can continue to tell compelling stories about the youth impacted by programs funded with state and federal dollars. By lifting…

Aged care providers rallied on record government spend on the sector. Ampol jumped 1.13% on the government???s halved excise fuel tax. archTIS rocketed 18% on the government???s $9.9bn cyber security package. There were some key winners and losers in Australia???s …