by Jane Richey | Apr 11, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) enforced nearly $500,000 in fines and mandatory “environmental projects” on a school bus contractor for “excessive idling,” and as part of its anti-idling campaign to reduce the carbon footprint of school buses waiting to pick...
by Jane Richey | Apr 11, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
A House committee approved legislation last week to prevent businesses from avoiding paying state corporate income taxes and rejected amendments by Democratic lawmakers to broaden the scope of the bill to address other tax fairness issues. The measure approved by the...
by Jane Richey | Apr 11, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
President Obama traveled to Florida yesterday to distract the nation from its real problems by laying out his case for the Buffett Rule, a plan to drastically raise taxes on successful Americans and small businesses. The core of his argument is that the rich aren’t...
by Jane Richey | Apr 11, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The nation’s top housing regulator on Tuesday signaled a willingness to reduce mortgage principal for some borrowers but stopped short of endorsing a plan that would attempt to do that. Edward DeMarco, acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), said...
by Jane Richey | Apr 11, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Proponents of an online sales tax aren’t letting up in their push to move legislation through Congress this year, despite the opposition of conservative heavyweights. Retailers have been lobbying aggressively for legislation that would help states collect sales taxes...
by Jane Richey | Apr 10, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
In his report, Charles Blahous revisits the Republican claim that the administration “double counted” Medicare savings when scoring the budgetary impact of the law. He argues that practice hides the real cost of the measure, even though it conforms with...
