In fact, his 21st century wit, cynicism and sensibility, (delicately balanced by raw emotion and tantalizing craft), is only strengthened by his surrender to an ever-increasing technological landscape.
Ripe with isolation, introspection, recovery and renewal, O’Callaghan’s latest collection, The Sun King, whispers secrets and sings the emergence of light born of the soul’s darkest moments. Technology flashes in and out of The Sun King, yet O’Callaghan’s words never suffer from it. How does Conor O’Callaghan seamlessly connect a snowy North Carolinian landscape, James Joyce and voicemails? Every person pays through direct taxation, increased prices, or devaluing the money they have to spend on essential goods.Īnytime a politician tells the public that a free lunch is on the way or something Washington wants to do has a cost of “zero,” every American should grab their wallet.Today’s snow-blanketed Wake Forest University campus. All of those methods impact the bottom line of every American consumer. Government must either produce the money through taxes, borrowing, or printing. Īll new government spending requires getting money from somewhere. Deficit neutrality is almost always a pipe dream for new government spending plans, and the nature of the “Build Back Better” package makes the idea ridiculous.Įven if it were true that new revenues would offset the bill’s spending, it is still intellectually dishonest and entirely wrong as a matter of economics to say the cost would be “zero.” Even if the plan added nothing to the nominal national debt, the trillions in new taxes would, directly and indirectly, affect every American. It also relies on a highly optimistic claim of expected new tax revenues. That claim ignores the reality that the actual costs of new spending plans virtually consistently exceed projections. To get to “zero,” of course, the new revenue will have to meet or exceed the new spending. The “zero dollar bill” narrative is crafted around the supposed idea that the multiple trillions of dollars contemplated in new spending programs will be offset by sufficient increases in tax revenue. Trying to spin $3.5 trillion in new spending as costing zero dollars is among the most shameless, patently absurd attempts to change reality through a talking point ever attempted This week, Speaker Nancy Pelosi told the press that the bill is “not about a dollar amount, the dollar amount, as the president said, is zero.”
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