by Jane Richey | May 5, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The average cost to operate a vehicle in the United States is now $8,946 annually, according to the 2012 edition of AAA’s Your Driving Costs study. That’s an increase of 1.9 percent over 2011 and encompasses the full cost of ownership, including fuel, maintenance and...
by Jane Richey | May 5, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Ford Motor Company is going greener still. Stepping up its efforts to decrease its use of petroleum-based products, the company announced last month that it’s attempting to use old U.S. cash to make trays and bins for its vehicles. Ford (F: 10.67, -0.25, -2.29%)...
by Jane Richey | May 4, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
The State House voted Wednesday to approve a constitutional amendment that would give municipalities the power to exclude homesteads from property taxes. Current rules allow for only 50 percent of the median assessment of a farmstead or homestead to be excluded. A...
by Jane Richey | May 3, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Paul Ryan shocked the gentle souls at Georgetown University when he traveled up to their campus last Thursday and said: “We believe that Social Security legislation, now billed as a great victory for the poor and for the worker, is a great defeat for...
by Jane Richey | May 3, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Lawmakers will not have to re-fight their epic battle over raising the debt ceiling until after the November elections, according to the Treasury Department. April tax receipts have not moved Treasury’s debt-ceiling target date, and Secretary Timothy Geithner...
by Jane Richey | May 3, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
If you ran a business with $25 billion in losses over the last five years, $20 billion in annual losses projected in the coming years, and 80 percent of its locations losing money, do you think that your company would stay afloat? Should it be rescued with a bailout...
