by Jane Richey | Jan 8, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The Tax Foundation has debunked an influential report by the Congressional Research Service which claimed that economic growth is not harmed by high tax rates. The September 2012 report, “Taxes and the Economy: An Economic Analysis of the Top Tax Rates Since 1945,”...
by Jane Richey | Jan 7, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Welfare recipients took out cash at bars, liquor stores, X-rated video shops, hookah parlors and even strip clubs — where they presumably spent their taxpayer money on lap dances rather than diapers, a Post investigation found. A database of 200 million Electronic...
by Jane Richey | Jan 7, 2013 | Free Markets
“Promised Land,” the anti-fracking film written and produced by Hollywood stars Matt Damon and John Krasinski, was made in part by a production company owned by the government of Arab oil emirate Abu Dhabi – a state in direct competition with American oil and gas...
by Jane Richey | Jan 7, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
During fiscal year 2012, the U.S. government spent a record $80.4 billion on food stamps, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), a $2.7 billion increase from FY 2011. (Fiscal year 2012 ran from Oct. 1, 2011 through Sept. 30, 2012.) According to the...
by Jane Richey | Jan 7, 2013 | Health Care
Obamacare prevents Luzerne County Council from adopting an ordinance that would require county employees to work at least 40 hours a week to get health benefits, Assistant County Solicitor David Schwager determined. On Nov. 27, council unanimously approved a motion to...
