by Jane Richey | Jul 13, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
This year, Americans have to work until July 15 to pay for the burden of government, more than six months. In a new report, Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) has calculated that Americans will spend a total of 197 days toiling to pay for the cost of government....
by Jane Richey | Jul 13, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The national debt has now increased by more than $64,000 per federal taxpayer since Barack Obama was inaugurated president. At the close of business on Jan. 20, 2009, according to the U.S. Treasury, the total debt of the federal government was $10,626,877,048,913.08....
by Jane Richey | Jul 13, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
A New York-based law firm predicts that Obamacare will increase the number of medical malpractice claims, as physicians are flooded with millions of previously uninsured patients. James A. Morris, Jr., a plaintiffs’ attorney with a mass-tort and personal-injury...
by Jane Richey | Jul 12, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) led a successful effort on Wednesday to defeat a conservative attempt to double the food stamp cuts in the House farm bill, an effort that could have sunk the legislation. Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.) offered a...
by Jane Richey | Jul 12, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
There is a lot of talk about economic “safety nets” these days, but according to Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.), what liberals really mean by that is “hammock.” “Conservatives believe that every person who comes to America or is born here, they have a ladder that they are...
by Jane Richey | Jul 12, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
From Senator Bob Casey, Jr.: As chairman of the Joint Economic Committee during the 112th Congress, I have worked with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle and with private sector leaders to spur additional job creation, strengthen the manufacturing sector,...
