by Jane Richey | Jan 7, 2014 | Agenda 21, Free Markets
States are quickly learning that promoting electric cars is coming with a high price tag. Colorado has joined a growing number of states that are imposing fees on electric and alternative vehicles to recover “lost” gas tax revenues. As of this year, Coloradans driving...
by Jane Richey | Dec 10, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
James Madison was very adamant that the power of the purse be preserved in the body of government that is closest to the people – the House of Representatives – as a way to redress all grievances against harmful government interventions. We have a law that is...
by Jane Richey | Nov 21, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Health Care
Many GOP governors have been criticized for refusing to participate in the wild and ill-conceived expansion of the Medicaid program under Obamacare. There is good reason. While the expansion is underwritten by the Federal government in the near term, in the out years...
by Jane Richey | Nov 1, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
There’s still no end in sight for the Federal Reserve’s stimulus program — known as quantitative easing — after the central bank met this week and decided to continue buying $85 billion in bonds each month. In a statement released after the...
by Jane Richey | Sep 18, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
During the four years that marked President Barack Obama’s first term in office, the real median income of American households dropped by $2,627 and the number of people in poverty increased by approximately 6,667,000, according to data released today by the Census...
by Jane Richey | Sep 17, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
he nation’s poverty rate remained stuck at 15 percent last year despite America’s slowly reviving economy, a discouraging lack of improvement for the record 46.5 million poor and an unwelcome benchmark for President Barack Obama’s recovery plans....
