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Bruce Bartlett

Affiliation: Forbes

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

The Real Problem With PAYGO

May 30, 2010| 

Practically every fiscal conservative supports the concept of PAYGO (short for pay-as-you-go), the idea that new spending programs or tax cuts should be paid for... Read »

The Politics of an Aging Population

May 23, 2010| 

The Census Bureau has just issued a new report on the rapid aging of the U.S. population. There’s a lot of good data and graphs in it, but I want to focus... Read »

The National Debt and National Security

May 23, 2010| 1

The Washington Post has an important column today by David Ignatius on the concerns that senior members of the military have about our national debt and those of... Read »

Rand Paul is No Barry Goldwater on Civil Rights

May 20, 2010| 2

Rand Paul, son of legendary libertarian Congressman Ron Paul, for whom I worked in the 1970s, is now the official Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate from Kentucky.... Read »

The FairTax: A Big Tax Increase?

May 12, 2010| 1

According to The Politico, the so-called FairTax is an issue in the special election to replace the late John Murtha in Pennsylvania. The Republican candidate Tim... Read »

Jude Wanniski: Taxes and a Two-Santa Theory

May 7, 2010| 

In 1976, Jude Wanniski was an editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal who had lately learned about supply-side economics from Robert Mundell and Arthur Laffer.... Read »

When We Will Get a VAT

Apr 30, 2010| 

The recent mini-boomlet for a value-added tax (VAT) that was kicked off a few weeks ago when former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker indicated support for the... Read »

John McCain’s Irresponsible Demagoguery on the VAT

Apr 16, 2010| 1

It seems like eons ago that John McCain was a senator worthy of respect even when he was wrong. Now he’s just wrong. His irresponsible attack on the value... Read »

What People Don’t Know About Federal Income Taxes

Apr 15, 2010| 

As readers of this blog know, one of my pet peeves is all of the tea party demonstrators who are outraged by the high level of taxation in America, but who in fact... Read »

Is the Recession Over?

Apr 12, 2010| 

I’m rather astounded at all the ill-informed commentary I have read today in normally responsible places such as the Financial Times to the effect that the... Read »

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