by Jane Richey | Jun 4, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
From the Oil City Derrick: Proposed Shell tax break worth $67 million a year PETER JACKSON Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Gov. Tom Corbett, who has been criticized for cutting state spending for schools and social services, is advocating future tax...
by Jane Richey | Jun 4, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
From the Oil City Derrick: DCNR To Collect Money From Drillers Who Harvest Gas Under Public Streams By Laura Legere (Staff Writer) Natural gas drillers have to sign leases and compensate the state if they plan to collect gas trapped deep beneath publicly owned streams...
by Jane Richey | May 29, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Barack Obama claims he has presided over trillions of dollars in spending cuts. If he’s a fiscal conservative, then I’m a forward “enforcer” for an NBA playoff team. The president, who has increased the national debt by $5 trillion – more than all previous...
by Jane Richey | May 29, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Americans who describe themselves as conservative on economic issues outnumber those who describe themselves as liberal on economic issues by 46 percent to 20 percent, according to a Gallup poll released today. The same poll says that Americans who describe themselves...
by Jane Richey | May 26, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Lobbyists are girding for a slew of battles on the farm bill, which will hit the Senate floor in early June. There are many hurdles to getting a farm bill to President Obama’s desk this election year. As a bipartisan group of senators work to pass the measure through...
by Jane Richey | May 26, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
The House will keep voting on piecemeal bills to repeal parts of President Obama’s healthcare law before the Supreme Court decides whether the law is unconstitutional. Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said in a planning memo that the House will vote on two...
