by Jane Richey | Jan 7, 2014 | Fiscal Responsibility
Expanding Medicaid coverage to an estimated nine million more Americans—as mandated by the Affordable Care Act—reinforces the idea that Medicaid only serves the poor. That perception is not accurate. And it distracts from a looming budgetary threat to the program:...
by Jane Richey | Jan 6, 2014 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment
In order to expedite the investigations, the IRS has enlisted a team of 150 full-time employees, many of whom are lawyers, working to produce more than 500,000 pages of documents requested by congressional oversight committees. John Koskinen — who was sworn in Monday...
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...
