With all due respect to Speaker Hastert, trying to eliminate the IRS by adopting a national retail sales tax is a very dumb idea.

- Bruce Bartlett

It's obvious that a lot of Tea Party members tend to be elderly. You've seen that famous sign, 'Tell the government to keep its hands off my Medicare…

- Bruce Bartlett

There's bound to be a recovery in [capital spending] sometime soon. We have had basically no capital investment for about year. At some point, machin…

- Bruce Bartlett

I believe any decline would lock in a Fed increase with some certainty.

- Bruce Bartlett

Rick Perry's an idiot, and I don't think anyone would disagree with that.

- Bruce Bartlett

Up until 1986, the top marginal rate, the top statutory rate was 50 percent. Now it's 35 percent. And all the pressure is on to lower that even furth…

- Bruce Bartlett

The growing inequality of wealth and income distribution is both a moral and economic problem. If the wealthy are unwilling to pay more taxes, then t…

- Bruce Bartlett

The conservative side of our political spectrum has had an outsized voice over the last few years. I think especially since the establishment of Fox …

- Bruce Bartlett

People are increasingly concerned about unemployment, but Republicans have nothing to offer them.

- Bruce Bartlett