by Jane Richey | Apr 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
The economy added 120,000 jobs in March, well below what economists had predicted, while the unemployment rate ticked down slightly to 8.2 percent. The number is nearly half the 210,000 expected and ends the streak of three straight months in which the economy added...
by Jane Richey | Apr 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Green groups are suing the Environmental Protection Agency to force completion of long-planned national regulations to govern disposal of so-called coal ash, a waste product from power plants. “In the absence of national standards requiring safe disposal, coal ash has...
by Jane Richey | Apr 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
The Energy Department said Thursday it expects to begin tentatively approving new taxpayer-backed loans for renewable energy projects in the coming months. The announcement comes about seven months after Solyndra, the California solar firm that received a $535 million...
by Jane Richey | Apr 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
“Our fiscal commitments are unsustainable over the long run, but we cannot put our long-run fiscal challenges above all others,” Geithner told the Economic Club of Chicago on Wednesday. “We have to be willing to do things, not just cut things.” Geithner has called the...
by Jane Richey | Apr 5, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Brace yourself. In a mere 271 days, you and your fellow Americans will be hit with a tax hike the likes of which this country has never seen. The Washington Post aptly called the unprecedented $494 billion tax hike “Taxmageddon,” and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben...
by Jane Richey | Apr 5, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Hard-charging conservative lawmakers and greater Republican ranks helped to boost pro-Taxpayer Scores for both the House and Senate, but even they had a hard time overcoming the tax-and-spend crowd in Washington, according to the 362,000-member National Taxpayers...
