by Jane Richey | Mar 20, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
House Republicans will slash personal income taxes to a 25 percent top rate and a 10 percent lower rate as part of their fiscal 2013 budget proposal to be released Tuesday. The proposal would also lower the top corporate tax rate to 25 percent, and scrap the...
by Jane Richey | Mar 20, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
If the Obama administration persuades the Supreme Court to uphold its health care overhaul law, it will be in large part thanks to a 70-year-old precedent involving an Ohio farmer named Roscoe C. Filburn. Mr. Filburn sued to overturn a 1938 federal law that told him...
by Jane Richey | Mar 20, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment
House Republicans are planning new legislation to thwart Environmental Protection Agency rules that they argue could worsen rising gasoline prices. While details remain scarce, the new bill could provide Republicans a rallying point for continued attacks on the White...
by Jane Richey | Mar 20, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment
Did you know that the federal government claims that it can take away your constitutional rights any time that it wants to? Over the past several decades, there have been an endless parade of laws and executive orders that have been slowly and methodically carving up...
by Jane Richey | Mar 19, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) was first created in 1943, this obscure government agency backs the purchase of American-made goods oversees with loans backed by the full faith and credit of the United States. The bank’s renewable charter first expired in September of...
by Jane Richey | Mar 19, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Death, taxes and now health insurance? Having a medical plan or else paying a fine is about to become another certainty of American life, unless the Supreme Court says no. People are split over the wisdom of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, but...
