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Did Wisconsin Republicans need to attack collective bargaining?

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said he needed to rein in collective bargaining in order to secure key long-term budget savings. Is he right? Here are the arguments pro and con.
Madison protest: Unions are angry – but Wisconsin should go even further

Union protests in Wisconsin have intensified pressure on Governor Scott Walker's bold plan to curtail public-sector union power. For the sake of fiscal health, Wisconsin should go even further by prohibiting all collective bargaining in the public sector.
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The deficit isn't a math problem – it's a rules problem

The new budget proposals underline an old Kane-ism: The deficit isn't a math problem. If it were, Congress would have solved it already.
Will Obama take lead on national debt and budget deficit?

Commission’s draft proposal on cuts and taxes to slash national debt has riled partisans on both sides. Next major move is President Obama’s.
Cities' plea: We need $75 billion or we'll lay off 500,000

City and county officials said Tuesday that they will face massive layoffs unless Congress passes the $75 billion Local Jobs for America Act. But the bill's prospects look dim.
Want a balanced federal budget? Cut state workers' pay.

On average, state workers make $39.66 an hour, have traditional pensions untouched by stock market moves, and are laid off at one-third the rate of private-sector workers. Considering concerns about the federal budget, are government jobs too cushy?
Obama budget wouldn't trim trillion-dollar deficits until 2012

President Obama faces a tough challenge in his budget: cutting the federal deficit while pumping up the economy. His budget pays for $33 billion in business tax cuts and $25 billion of aid to states through a spending freeze and reinstated taxes on wealthy Americans.
House extends estate tax - a blow to Bush-era plan to abolish it

The House voted Thursday to continue the estate tax – an attempt to foil the Bush-era cuts that would have led to the expiration of the estate tax in 2010. But complications remain.
GOP's budget is worlds away from Obama's

While President Obama's budget would expand the scope of government the House GOP alternative aims to return government spending to historical levels.
Raising Keynes: An old economist finds new rock-star status

Keynesian economics is being hailed as key to ending the collapse.
Obama's case for action

Spending big on the economy is less risky than doing too little, he asserted Thursday.
Obama signals he will tap his rivals

Many presidents have vowed to end partisanship. Few succeed.
Lehman: The next bailout?

The rescue of Fannie and Freddie may have opened a new era of federal intervention in business.