by Jane Richey | Oct 22, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility
The Internal Revenue Service paid out more than $110 billion in tax credits over the past decade to people who didn’t qualify for them, according to a Treasury report released Tuesday. The Earned Income Tax Credits were intended for poor working families. In his...
by Jane Richey | Oct 22, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Congressional Democrats want Republicans to sign off on $50 billion worth of tax increases to eliminate the sequester’s automatic spending cuts. The next phase of these cuts will take effect Jan. 15, when government funding will drop from $986 billion to $967 billion....
by Jane Richey | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Health Care, Politics
Heritage Foundation: To hear Senators Harry Reid (D-NV) and Mitch McConnell (R-KY) tell it, America’s long national nightmare is over. Except…it’s not. Our national nightmare isn’t the government shutdown; it’s Obamacare. Congressional leaders have been...
by Jane Richey | Oct 16, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Still no resolution on continually raising debt ceiling in this Democrat-approved arrangement. US government needs to spend LESS money: The proposal would fund the government through Jan. 15, 2014, and put off the debt ceiling until Feb. 7, 2014, with the Treasury...
by Jane Richey | Oct 16, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The Senate approved a bill to reopen the government and avert default Wednesday night, 16 days into a government shutdown and a day before the Treasury Department’s debt limit deadline. The legislation, crafted by negotiations between the Senate’s two leaders,...