by Jane Richey | Aug 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
Gas prices have surged in recent weeks and analysts predict they’ll keep rising, creating fresh openings for GOP attacks against President Obama that had waned when prices dropped sharply. The nationwide average for regular gasoline is $3.60-per-gallon, a 24-cent rise...
by Jane Richey | Aug 6, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Sales tax holidays are gimmicks used by the government for political gain and to distract from real tax reform, according to the Tax Foundation. A total of 17 states have held or will be holding sale tax holidays in 2012, which is 2 states fewer than the peak of 19 in...
by Jane Richey | Aug 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
Subsidies to businesses in the federal budget in Fiscal Year 2012 cost taxpayers almost $100 billion, according to a new repor tfrom the Cato Institute. “That includes direct and indirect subsidies to small businesses, large corporations, and industry organizations,”...
by Jane Richey | Aug 6, 2012 | Agenda 21
Extreme summer heat waves and droughts in recent years are the result of climate change, a top federal scientist concludes in a new peer-reviewed study. The study by James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, could provide new political...
by Jane Richey | Aug 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Federal policies promoting ethanol are inefficient at any time, but they are particularly harmful to consumers in the midst of a severe drought. The EPA’s schedule of minimum targets for ethanol in the nation’s fuel mix, has caused some 40 percent of the nation’s corn...
