by Jane Richey | Mar 15, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
America’s fiscal condition is dauntingly dismal. The national debt is well on its way to $17 trillion, 13 million Americans are out of work, and the country is stuck in the slowest recovery in the post-war era. Despite Washington bleeding taxpayers dry with reckless...
by Jane Richey | Mar 15, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The CBO has extended its cost estimates for President Obama’s health care law out to 2022, taking in more years of full implementation, and showing that the bill is substantially more expensive — twice as much as the original $900 billion price tag. The...
by Jane Richey | Mar 15, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
As many as 20 million Americans could lose their employer-provided coverage because of President Obama’s healthcare reform law, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said in a new report. The figure represents the worst-case scenario, CBO says, and the law...
by Jane Richey | Mar 15, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
After years of deliberation on the issue, Pennsylvania legislators passed a bill overhauling the state’s natural gas drilling laws on February 8, 2012. The legislation places an impact fee on every well drilling for gas in the Marcellus Shale...
by Jane Richey | Mar 14, 2012 | Free Markets
The White House says China’s restrictions create an unfair advantage for Chinese producers, which could harm domestic industrial production of green technology and force some factories to move overseas. China mines 97 percent of the world’s supply of...
by Jane Richey | Mar 14, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) grilled Energy Secretary Steven Chu Tuesday about the political nature of the administration making loans to alternative energy companies such as Solyndra. Paul cited billionaire and Obama supporter George Kaiser’s involvement with the failed...
