Unfortunately conservatives lost the “how do you pay for it” argument a long time ago. George W outspent every previous president with a GOP congress. Trillions wasted on wars and welfare for corporations that outsourced jobs. Then TARP to bail out financial criminals Whatever the merits of free-market conservatism in the abstract, the behavior of GOP 2000-2009 has discredited that view for at least a generation. You can’t blame Obama/Ocasio for demanding at least equal $$$ be spent on...| Tanner Hauser
By James Kwak The airline industry is trying to hold up the federal government for $29 billion in grants and another $29 billion in loans. They threaten that if they don’t get the grants they…| The Baseline Scenario