by Jane Richey | Jan 7, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
During fiscal year 2012, the U.S. government spent a record $80.4 billion on food stamps, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), a $2.7 billion increase from FY 2011. (Fiscal year 2012 ran from Oct. 1, 2011 through Sept. 30, 2012.) According to the...
by Jane Richey | Jan 5, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Fifty-four House Republicans on Thursday reintroduced legislation that would terminate the IRS and replace the system of income taxes on people and corporations with a consumption tax. The FairTax Act, from Rep. Rob Woodall (R-Ga.), would abolish the 16th Amendment,...
by Jane Richey | Jan 5, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
More expense added to our already high grocery bills. This is one of the last bills that was passed during the lame duck session in December 2010 by a Democratic majority who had just lost in the November election: The two rules proposed by the FDA would require food...
by Jane Richey | Jan 4, 2013 | Agenda 21, Constitutionally Limited Goverment
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency exceeded its authority in trying to regulate storm water as it would a pollutant, a federal judge in Alexandria ruled Thursday. The decision, a victory for Fairfax County and Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II (R),...
by Jane Richey | Jan 3, 2013 | Agenda 21, Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
A recently renewed wind power credit could face more scrutiny next Congress, as House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said Wednesday that the credit is of “serious interest” to his committee. Issa criticized a...
by Jane Richey | Jan 2, 2013 | Agenda 21, Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
Beginning on New Years Day the 75 watt incandescent light bulb was banned from production and importation into the United States. Under current federal law, 60 watt and 40 watt bulbs will be gone by 2014. We’ll instead have to buy Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs...
