by Jane Richey | Jan 6, 2014 | Fiscal Responsibility
One trillion equals one thousand billion. One trillion = 1,000,000,000,000 At about $30.5 million per year, the 2013 highest paid NBA player, Kobe Bryant, would need to work 32, 837 years to reach $1 trillion. Read more....
by Jane Richey | Jan 6, 2014 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment
A change in tax policy implemented Jan. 1 will prevent restaurant workers from collecting automatic gratuities — the added 18 percent fee many restaurants charge to groups of eight or more — as part of their tips. Instead, that added fee will be included in their...
by Jane Richey | Jan 5, 2014 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Health Care
Volunteer firefighters may see their hours or benefits cut, so small fire departments can avoid providing costly insurance or paying fines for failing to insure employees, reports Colorado’s NBC 9. The likelihood that volunteers will work more than 30 hours a week is...
by Jane Richey | Jan 5, 2014 | Education Issues
Neal McCluskey of the Cato Institute highlighted the small-government conservatives and libertarians in one camp, as well as the progressives in another in an exclusive interview with The Daily Caller. Both groups dislike connecting standards to testing and teacher...
by Jane Richey | Jan 5, 2014 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment
The website Regulations.gov lists 141 regulations that have been posted by federal agencies in the first three days of new year alone. Of these regulations, 119 are “rulemaking,” meaning they establish a new rule. Twenty-three are “non-rulemaking,” meaning the...
