by Jane Richey | Apr 11, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Proponents of an online sales tax aren’t letting up in their push to move legislation through Congress this year, despite the opposition of conservative heavyweights. Retailers have been lobbying aggressively for legislation that would help states collect sales taxes...
by Jane Richey | Apr 10, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
In his report, Charles Blahous revisits the Republican claim that the administration “double counted” Medicare savings when scoring the budgetary impact of the law. He argues that practice hides the real cost of the measure, even though it conforms with...
by Jane Richey | Apr 10, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Think fueling up your car at $4 a gallon is rough? How would you feel about paying more than $6.50? Add on top of that massive job losses and a drastic drop in U.S. economic productivity, and you’ll get the picture of what life in America would be like if oil stopped...
by Jane Richey | Apr 10, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Monday formally delayed new billing rules that doctors have criticized as overly complicated. HHS gave doctors an extra year to begin using a new set of codes when billing insurance companies for their services. The...
by Jane Richey | Apr 9, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The U.S. natural gas market is bursting at the seams. So much natural gas is being produced that soon there may be nowhere left to put the country’s swelling surplus. After years of explosive growth, natural gas producers are retrenching. The underground salt...
by Jane Richey | Apr 9, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Last week, “an unelected group of people” over at the Environmental Protection Agency revised our national energy policy, approving a new gasoline blend with up to 15% ethanol, known as E15, which may be available in pumps this summer. Currently, most...
