U.S. Budget: Summary TablesFor my final reading, it’s the summary tables at the end of the proposed federal budget. The first table compares the overall budget…Dec 8, 2023Dec 8, 2023
U.S. Budget: Treasury, VA, Corps of Engineers, EPA, NASA, NSF, Small Business, SSAThe last of the text in the federal budget, a bit anticlimactic. These sections are so short that I don’t even have favorite phrases from…Dec 2, 2023Dec 2, 2023
U.S. Budget: Interior, Justice, Labor, State, TransportationLike last week’s post and what I presume I’ll have next week, this is a bunch of wish list items from the Biden administration across a few…Nov 23, 2023Nov 23, 2023
U.S. Budget: Edu, Energy, HHS, Homeland Sec, HUDThis reading was a bunch of short descriptions of departmental requests here. Here are my favorite phrases from each: “Wrap-Around Service”…Nov 18, 2023Nov 18, 2023
U.S. Budget: Equity; Agriculture, Commerce, DefenseMost of the federal budget is split out by Cabinet departments (starting with this post’s Agriculture, Commerce, and Defense). But first…Nov 8, 2023Nov 8, 2023
U.S. Budget: Overview and Building a Better AmericaMy first reaction was annoyance. This is a political document more than an actual applied budget. Just like the Wisconsin budget that I…Nov 2, 2023Nov 2, 2023
Wisconsin Budget: Economic Assumptions; References; AppendicesNext time I will just start and end here. After a brief section on economic assumptions that turned out to be pretty bad (IHS Markit…Oct 27, 2023Oct 27, 2023
Wisconsin Budget: Remaining InitiativesOf all the laundry lists in the Wisconsin Budget, this is the biggest laundry list, covering everything from legalized marijuana to flood…Oct 18, 2023Oct 18, 2023
Wisconsin Budget: Healthy CommunitiesAnother laundry list of Democratic priorities, mostly inoffensive but some framed in a way that I didn’t like.Oct 13, 2023Oct 13, 2023
Wisconsin Budget: What’s Best for KidsThis section is a list of programs to benefit children, especially those from low-income families. Without knowing what was enacted from…Oct 6, 2023Oct 6, 2023
