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Bruce Bartlett

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Bruce Bartlett is a columnist for Forbes.com, the online side of Forbes, the nation’s premier financial magazine.

He served for many years in prominent governmental positions including executive director of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, Deputy Assistant Secretary for economic policy at the U.S. Treasury Department during the George H.W. Bush Administration, and as a senior policy analyst in the White House for Ronald Reagan.

Bruce is the author of seven books, including the New York Times best-selling Impostor: How George W. Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy, and thousands of articles in national publications including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, New Republic, Fortune and many others. He appears frequently on CNN, CNBC, C-SPAN and Fox News, and has been a guest on both the Daily Show with Jon Stewart and the Colbert Report.

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Bruce Bartlett's Latest Articles | 76

Penny-Wise/Pound-Foolish Budget-Cutting

Sep 22, 2011| 

Press reports say that Congress is about to enact a nominal spending cut of 10 percent in the U.S. Government Accountability Office budget. The mind-boggling stupidity... Read »

Why the Reagan Tax Cut Worked in 1981 and Why It Wouldn’t Work Today

Aug 13, 2011| 1

Thirty years ago today, Ronald Reagan signed into law the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981. It remains controversial, with Democrats blaming it for undermining... Read »

People Support Higher Taxes to Reduce the Deficit by a 2-to-1 Margin

Jul 14, 2011| 

It appears that Republicans have walked away from a historic opportunity to reduce the deficit because of their obsessive insistance that not one penny come from... Read »

Pawlenty’s Wishful Thinking

Jun 9, 2011| 

The usual right-wingers like Larry Kudlow and the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page are falling all over themselves to praise Tim Pawlenty for his “plan”... Read »

Obama’s Budget Message: You Can’t Have Your Cake and Eat It Too

Apr 16, 2011| 2

On April 13, President Obama attempted to change the budget debate in Washington, which has been conducted entirely on Republican terms for the last two years. In... Read »

The Coburn Challenge: Cut Spending Through the Tax Code as Well as Through the Budget

Apr 2, 2011| 

One of the key reasons why the U.S. has a massive budgetary problem is a core Republican belief that no provision of the tax code that reduces revenue is unjustified... Read »

Dopiest Constitutional Amendment of All Time?

Apr 1, 2011| 

Today, all 47 Senate Republicans introduced a constitutional amendment to balance the federal budget. Full text available here. Presumably, this is the amendment... Read »

Norquist Vetoes Both Deficit Reduction and Tax Reform

Mar 22, 2011| 

According to a report in The Hill newspaper, Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist has received assurances from Republican leaders in Congress that... Read »

Are Republicans Squandering Their Political Capital on Ineffective Budget Cuts?

Feb 16, 2011| 

There’s a new Harris poll out today that illuminates this question. It shows that support for cutting spending is mostly confined to small programs and that... Read »

Democratic Budgetary Passivity

Feb 15, 2011| 

For several weeks now, we have all been besieged by Republican ranting and raving about the budget, how it must slashed and chopped to ribbons even if it means... Read »

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