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July 10, 2025

Charles blahous

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BLAHOUS: The sobering future of Social Security

May 17, 2024 Charles Blahous

The 2024 edition of the annual report of the Social Security trustees was released on May 6, 2024, and its conclusions are sobering. If corrective action is much further delayed, continued solvency will be for […]

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BLAHOUS: Americans should be less complacent about Social Security 

March 2, 2024 Charles Blahous

(This article first appeared Discourse magazine published by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.)  In December 2023, Gallup released the results of its latest survey of Americans’ expectations of Social Security. They show a […]

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BLAHOUS: Blahous’ laws of politics, Nos. 9 and 10

September 8, 2023 Charles Blahous

(Article first appeared in the July 25, 2023, edition of Discourse magazine published by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University)  9th Law: When Americans express opposition to a policy, those in government will reconsider […]

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BLAHOUS: Blahous’ laws of politics, Nos. 7 and 8

September 5, 2023 Charles Blahous

7th Law: Political attacks often reveal more about the attacker than the attacked.  Sometimes, politicians are deservedly on the receiving end of fierce criticism. No one has a right to public office, and those who […]

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BLAHOUS: Blahous’ laws of politics #5 and #6 

August 25, 2023 Charles Blahous

(Article first appeared in the July 25, 2023 edition of Discourse magazine published by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University)  5th Law: The more sympathetic the constituency, the worse the policy.  This is one […]

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BLAHOUS: Blahous’ laws of politics, #4 

August 17, 2023 Charles Blahous

(Article first appeared in the July 25, 2023 edition of Discourse magazine published by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University)  4th Law: Expertise and honesty do not confer objectivity.  Political exchanges are often rife […]

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BLAHOUS: Blahous’ laws of politics Nos. 2 and 3 

August 10, 2023 Charles Blahous

(Article first appeared in the July 25, 2023, edition of Discourse magazine published by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University)  2nd Law: The political party opposing the president is more skeptical of military intervention.  […]

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BLAHOUS: Blahous’ laws of politics 

August 4, 2023 Charles Blahous

(Editor’s note from Frank Hill: Chuck Blahous is a friend of mine with whom I worked on federal budget and entitlement issues starting in 1994. He served in the Bush 43 White House as an […]

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BLAHOUS: The debt ceiling crisis may be over, but the debt crisis is not

June 9, 2023 Charles Blahous

The agreement negotiated by President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy to temporarily suspend the federal debt limit and establish caps on appropriated spending has passed through Congress. The legislation averts a U.S. government default […]

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BLAHOUS: Getting past the debt blame game 

February 23, 2023 Charles Blahous

The barbs exchanged at the State of the Union address remind us of the ease with which each party feels it can blame the other for the worsening of federal indebtedness year after year, Congress […]

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