by Jane Richey | Jun 25, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
The Senate passed an Internet sales tax bill, the Marketplace Fairness Act, last month on a bipartisan basis, but it has yet to pass the House. This legislation would allow states to require online sellers to collect sales taxes, which would go to state and local...
by Jane Richey | Jun 21, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
The House is debating its farm bill this week—and now Democrats are saying it doesn’t spend enough on food stamps. The “farm” bill, which isn’t how we picture farms at all, is actually 80 percent food stamps. Don’t forget that the food stamp program has doubled under...
by Jane Richey | Jun 19, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
One senator says the Internal Revenue Service is set to pay $70 million in bonuses for employees, over the objections of a White House mandate for all agencies to cancel discretionary spending — specifically, bonuses — due to looming automatic budget cuts. The news...
by Jane Richey | Jun 19, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
A $509,840 grant by the National Institutes of Health will pay for a study that will send text messages in “gay lingo” to methamphetamine addicts to try to persuade them to use fewer drugs and more condoms. The study began in February. Lead researcher Dr....
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...
