{"id":3996,"date":"2019-06-20T08:34:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T12:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=3996"},"modified":"2019-06-20T08:34:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T12:34:44","slug":"permanent-appropriations-might-they-improve-the-budget-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/permanent-appropriations-might-they-improve-the-budget-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Permanent appropriations: Might they improve the budget process?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Budget-US-Government-06-2019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3998\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/permanent-appropriations-might-they-improve-the-budget-process\/budget-us-government-06-2019\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Budget-US-Government-06-2019.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1024,683\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Budget-US-Government 06-2019\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Budget-US-Government-06-2019-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Budget-US-Government-06-2019-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3998\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Budget-US-Government-06-2019-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Budget-US-Government-06-2019.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Budget-US-Government-06-2019-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Budget-US-Government-06-2019-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a>If you have not read\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spia.ncsu.edu\/people\/faculty_staff\/ataylor\">Prof. Andrew Taylor<\/a>\u2019s article in the latest copy of\u00a0<i>National Affairs<\/i>, you should. It is titled,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalaffairs.com\/publications\/detail\/reforming-the-appropriations-process\">\u201cReforming the Appropriations Process.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and is interesting and provocative.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly it made me think. He argues for making appropriations permanent. Doing so would stabilize spending and avoid the high dramas of government shutdowns, continuing resolutions, and all the craziness.<\/p>\n<p>First, I fully sympathize with Prof. Taylor\u2019s observation that the budget process is broken. Our deficits and debt are astronomical. The budget resolution is, as he notes, \u201cfrequently ignored, and rarely used as intended.\u201d The shutdown and debt ceiling brinkmanship, and enacting multi-thousand page spending bills are symptoms of the broken budget process&#8230;.(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.legbranch.org\/permanent-appropriations-might-they-improve-the-budget-process\/\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have not read\u00a0Prof. Andrew Taylor\u2019s article in the latest copy of\u00a0National Affairs, you should. It is titled,\u00a0\u201cReforming the Appropriations Process.\u201d\u00a0and is interesting and provocative. Certainly it made me think. He argues for making appropriations permanent. Doing so would stabilize spending and avoid the high dramas of government shutdowns, continuing resolutions, and all the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[165],"tags":[201],"class_list":["post-3996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","tag-legbranch-com"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-12s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3999,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions\/3999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}