DAFT Decisions: Why Deficits Are Future Taxes

DAFT Decisions: Why Deficits Are Future Taxes

In 2009-10, I was invited to dozens of speaking opportunities, as well as lots of radio and television appearances, because of my association with the “Tea Party.” Though now increasingly out of fashion, the informal moniker “Tea Party” referred to a loose confederation of citizens and political candidates who were concerned about the size of government, and especially about the federal debt. In retrospect, it appears that all that energy (in th…