by Jane Richey | Jun 19, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
The Internal Revenue Service failed to give the House Small Business Committee requested documents on how the agency treats smaller companies by the requested date of June 17, the committee said Tuesday. Danny Werfel, the acting head of the IRS, told Rep. Sam Graves...
by Jane Richey | Jun 19, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
Beginning on July 1, the new rules would slash the hours per week commercial drivers can spend on the road to 70 per week, while adding new requirements for rest periods. Steve Williams of the American Trucking Associations said the rules from the Federal Motor...
by Jane Richey | Jun 17, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
From the Heritage Foundation: Remember the debt? That $17 trillion problem? Some in Washington seem to think it’s gone away. The Washington Post reported that “the national debt is no longer growing out of control.” Lawmakers and liberal inside-the-Beltway...
by Jane Richey | Jun 15, 2013 | Agenda 21, Constitutionally Limited Goverment
Every year, the federal government’s budget is loaded with hundreds of billions of dollars in taxpayer- funded subsidies. A little known piece of that pile of taxpayer cash giveaways is the nearly $20 billion spent each year on “community development” subsidies. While...
by Jane Richey | Jun 12, 2013 | Agenda 21, Constitutionally Limited Goverment
The Energy Department has $9 million more taxpayer dollars to spend on projects that may make a very expensive car less expensive and more acceptable to consumers. The latest round of funding is intended to accelerate the development of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles,...
by Jane Richey | Jun 7, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
In a belated and incomplete response to the House Ways and Means Committee’s request for Internal Revenue Service documents relating to the agency’s targeting of Tea Party and conservative groups for heightened scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status, Acting...
