Posted April 25, 2017 09:20 AM by Daniel Horowitz Are you tired of all that winning? When Republicans initially gained control of the House in 2011, they promised to defund Obamacare, end funding for Planned Parenthood, and cut spending in the first budget bill in March. Even though they only controlled one branch of government, […]
Two lawmakers have turned a government waste report into an online imitation of college basketball’s March Madness. Sens. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., and Rand Paul, R-Ky., set up the #SourSixteen Tournament of Waste to highlight what they call some of the worst examples of how government spends taxpayers’ dollars. This was actually kind of fun. This is why […]
By: Daniel Horowitz | March 08, 2017 Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. (F, 16%) is famous for declaring health care a right. He is actually correct if we were to tweak his statement to read, “free market health care is a natural right.” Yes, we the people have a right to finally create a free market […]
By Cliff Kincaid On “Fox & Friends,” President Donald Trump declared, in regard to the protests against him, “I think that President Obama’s behind it because his people are certainly behind it.” Once again, Trump has struck gold. It’s “gold” in the form of taxpayer money. In addition to funding from billionaire hedge fund operator […]
(Washington, D.C.) – Today, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) announced the results of its online poll for the 2016 Porker of the Year. There were six worthy candidates who were guilty of bureaucratic mismanagement, financing wasteful boondoggles, and promoting patently flawed policies, but in the end, the “winner” was never in doubt. By a landslide margin, […]
By: Daniel Horowitz | January 04, 2017 It is probably the best kept secret in Washington that has evaded scrutiny even from conservatives in recent weeks: Unless something changes, Republican leaders have no intention of repealing Obamacare. They are merely repealing most (but not necessarily all) of the funding mechanisms of Obamacare. Worse, they plan […]
With outstanding student loan debt now exceeding $1.3 trillion, it is no wonder that the sticker price of college tuition has gotten a lot of attention in 2016. Yet few proposals have gotten to the root of the college cost problem. Despite overwhelming evidence that more federal subsidies for higher education increase tuition prices, policies […]
By DAVID MARTOSKO, US POLITICAL EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM IN ASTON, PENNSYLVANIA PUBLISHED: 18:10 EST, 13 September 2016 | UPDATED: 20:33 EST, 13 September 2016 Donald Trump’s latest policy proposal, a program to pay for childcare expenses through tax deductions, applies equally to same-sex couples raising children. The Trump campaign’s early outreach to reporters – including […]
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Friday released her latest federal income tax return and urging her Republican rival Donald Trump to do the same. The return shows she and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, paid roughly a third of their multi-million dollar income to Uncle Sam, according to CNN. The Clintons pulled in […]
By PETER FERRARA The American historical record is: The worse the recession, the stronger the recovery. Coming out of a recession, the economy has historically grown faster than normal as it catches up to its long-term economic growth trend line. So our economy should have come out of 2009 with a historic, long-term boom. However, […]
