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Jan 14, 2025 | 
advisorpedia.com | Eugene Steuerle
Written by: Eugene Steuerle In my previous column, I outlined several macro issues that explain our broken federal government: an unsustainable budget; tremendous focus on consumption for the nonwealthy and wealth for the wealthy largely to the exclusion of upward mobility and wealth for the nonwealthy; a half-century of emphasis on some winners, such as older people, but not others, such as the working class; the relationship to recent shifts in voting patterns; and how these issues...
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
governmentwedeserve.substack.com | Eugene Steuerle
The Government We DeserveI seek the best ways, without appeal to simplistic labels, that government, private businesses, charities, you and I can help every person achieve maximum potential. No thanks to subscribe
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
advisorpedia.com | Eugene Steuerle
Written by: Eugene Steuerle
To start 2025, I’d like to summarize how a set of intertwined and reinforcing issues, when pieced together, explain why the federal government has become so broken. I promise to dig deeper into these issues in later columns.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
governmentwedeserve.substack.com | Eugene Steuerle
The Government We DeserveI seek the best ways, without appeal to simplistic labels, that government, private businesses, charities, you and I can help every person achieve maximum potential. No thanks to subscribe
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
advisorpedia.com | Eugene Steuerle
Written by: Eugene Steuerle
The wheel of Fortune turns: I go down, demeaned; another is raised up; far too high up sits the king at the summit – Let him fear ruin.
From Carmina Burana, by Carl Orff, performed by the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra, November 16, 2024
We, the public, have long been attracted to kings, dictators, and, in democracies, strong presidents or prime ministers.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
governmentwedeserve.substack.com | Eugene Steuerle
The Government We DeserveI seek the best ways, without appeal to simplistic labels, that government, private businesses, charities, you and I can help every person achieve maximum potential. No thanks to subscribe
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
advisorpedia.com | Eugene Steuerle
Written by: Eugene Steuerle
Neither Has Any Long-term, Viable Agenda
Almost all analyses of national politics recently have centered on why the Democrats lost, Republicans won, and whether Republicans will successfully seize control over the government and its workers. Yet if one looks closely at budget numbers rather than political rhetoric, neither party has put forward a viable long-term agenda or suggested ways such an agenda could succeed.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
governmentwedeserve.substack.com | Eugene Steuerle
The Government We DeserveI seek the best ways, without appeal to simplistic labels, that government, private businesses, charities, you and I can help every person achieve maximum potential. No thanks to subscribe
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
advisorpedia.com | Eugene Steuerle
Written by: Eugene Steuerle
Here at Promoting Healthcare Entitlement Regardless of Medical Acuity (PHERMA), we understand you. Our commercials show how happy you can be —engaged in fun, games, or travel, especially with grandchildren or other loved ones—after you take the drugs our companies advertise and sell.
To pursue many regulatory actions, the executive branch of government is supposed to determine if total benefits exceed total costs.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
governmentwedeserve.substack.com | Eugene Steuerle
The Government We DeserveI seek the best ways, without appeal to simplistic labels, that government, private businesses, charities, you and I can help every person achieve maximum potential. No thanks to subscribe
