The Ripon Forum
Volume 53, No. 4
September 2019
by LOU ZICKAR
In this edition of The Ripon Forum, we take a look at the state of our national political discourse, and why facts matter now more than ever.
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by CHRISTINA MURYN
There is hope for our communities. But it only will occur through continued collaboration between the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.
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by CHARLES BLAHOUS
Medicare for All would involve an unprecedented expansion of federal government expenditures and tax burdens.
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by JAMES WALLNER
The Electoral College, along with the Constitution’s other institutional arrangements, exists to safeguard the space where Americans participate in politics to make collective decisions based on equality.
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Poppy MacDonald discusses the mission of USAFacts and the effort to combat misinformation heading into the 2020 election.
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by G. WILLIAM HOAGLAND
In the current year, the federal government collected $3.47 trillion in revenues and spent $4.47 trillion, resulting in an annual deficit for 2019 of $1 trillion.
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by GEORGE INGRAM
At $39.2 billion for fiscal year 2019, foreign assistance is less than 1% of the federal budget.
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by GAIL R WILENSKY
We can spend less – we just cannot spend less and still have as easy an access to the open-ended, technically-advanced, sophisticated health care delivery system that we have had in the past.
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by JACKIE VARAS
To overcome this crisis, we must rethink our asylum processes at the border and our deficient legal immigration system.
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by KYLE CHANCE
Preparing the next generation of Americans for the future is in our nation’s greatest interest and is our society’s greatest investment.
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