by Jane Richey | Jan 10, 2014 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
President Barack Obama announced on Thursday that he has selected the first set of “Promise Zones,” economically challenged communities that will receive tax incentives and grants to combat poverty through education, increased access to housing and crime reduction....
by Jane Richey | Jan 10, 2014 | Fiscal Responsibility
Any day now, Congress is likely to release the trillion-dollar Trojan horse that is the spending bill for 2014. It’s going to be big, and it’s going to be rushed. And few members of Congress (if any) are going to read it all. Government budgeting isn’t supposed to be...
by Jane Richey | Jan 9, 2014 | Free Markets
It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression. It’s taken socialism half that time to come back from the collapse of the Soviet Union. In New York City, avowed socialist Mayor Bill de Blasio has declared that his goal is to take...
by Jane Richey | Jan 8, 2014 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment
Federal regulators worked hard to create more busywork for Americans this past year. In 2013, regulators added an estimated 157.9 million hours of paperwork to comply with the 80,224 new pages of regulations in the Federal Register, according to a report released by...
by Jane Richey | Jan 8, 2014 | Health Care
In 2014, 25 to 30 million Americans with employer-provided health insurance are likely to lose it, thanks to Obamacare’s requirement that all plans cover what Washington deems “essential benefits.” Some employers will consider this unaffordable, so after their current...
