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<title><![CDATA[Charles Blahous - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/24365.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Charles Blahous]]></description><category domain="24365">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[What Baseball Teaches Us]]></title>
							<link>https://www.discoursemagazine.com/p/what-baseball-teaches-us</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Blahous</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America's pastime offers many lessons on the importance of truly understanding information'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and adapting to evolutions in knowledge]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Repair Obamacare's Fiscal Damage]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Blahous</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Repealing the Affordable Care Act could reduce the federal deficit as much as $1 trillion over a decade.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Calamitous Finances of Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/unfolding-fiscal-disaster_796086.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Blahous</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Imagine that it is 1937 and time for the first Social Security payroll taxes to be assessed on workers and their employers. Two years earlier, President Franklin D. Roosevelt'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s new program was successfully sold to the American public as an ambitious yet fiscally responsible,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why We Have Federal Deficits]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/11/15/why_we_have_federal_deficits_120681.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Blahous</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The federal deficit is a huge public policy problem that must be understood, confronted, and solved. Federal deficits run in these last five years'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' dwarf any precedent'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in U.S. post-world-war history. The'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Congressional Budget Office'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' (CBO)'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s latest projections warn that without...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Federal Fiscal Predicament: What Seems Better Is Actually Worse]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/28/the_federal_fiscal_predicament_what_seems_better_is_actually_worse_119024.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Blahous</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Of late there has been a great amount of discussion of whether federal deficit reduction should remain a national policy priority. While bipartisan fiscal watchdog groups like the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' continue to argue that it should be, there have been plenty...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Guide to the 2013 Medicare Trustees Report]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/11/a_guide_to_the_2013_medicare_trustees_report_118771.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Blahous</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As one of the programs'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' two public trustees it has become my custom to publish such summaries soon after the annual publication of the reports. The'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' first'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' this year summarized the Social Security report, whereas this one will summarize the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Medicare report. Following are some of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Guide to the 2013 Social Security Trustees Report]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/10/a_guide_to_the_2013_social_security_trustees_report_118745.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Blahous</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Social Security and Medicare trustees released our'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' annual reports'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' last Friday, May 31. These reports set forth the state of program finances as required under the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Social Security Act. There are six trustees; four of them (the Secretaries of Treasury, HHS and Labor as well as...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Expanding Medicaid: The Conflicting Incentives Facing States]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/07/expanding_medicaid_the_conflicting_incentives_facing_states_117336.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Blahous</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Recent decisions by individual states concerning the Affordable Care Act (ACA)'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s now-optional Medicaid expansion have been much in the news of late. Today the Mercatus Center is publishing my comprehensive study of the conflicting incentives facing states as they make their choices...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Reason Obamacare's a Fiscal Bomb]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Blahous</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This morning the Mercatus Center is publishing my study, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The Fiscal Consequences of the Affordable Care Act,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' which evaluates the comprehensive health care reform law (the ACA) enacted in 2010. In this study, I project that the ACA will add over $1.15 trillion to net federal...]]></description>
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