by Jane Richey | Feb 13, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
President Barack Obama’s proposal to raise the minimum wage to $9 an hour from the current $7.25 would harm the economy, some Republicans said Tuesday after the State of the Union address. “If you raise the minimum wage, the inevitable effect will be, number one,...
by Jane Richey | Feb 13, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf said that unless Congress gets the federal budget under control, stimulus spending policies will be a “drag” on the economy in the future as the government struggles to pay the increased debt. “If cuts in taxes or...
by Jane Richey | Feb 13, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
In President Obama’s most expensive and widest ranging State of the Union Address yet, his proposals weighed in at $83.4 billion worth of quantifiable agenda items, according to National Taxpayers Union Foundation’s (NTUF’s) annual line-by-line analysis of the...
by Jane Richey | Feb 11, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The White House on Sunday stepped up pressure on Republicans to adopt a short-term budget patch that would cancel the $85 billion in spending “sequesters” due on March 1, saying that government spending is still needed to prop up a stubbornly sluggish economy. Late...
by Jane Richey | Feb 11, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), 35 percent of major federal regulations – those with at least $100 billion in annual economic impact – were issued without a public notice from 2003 to 2010. The GAO also said that 44 percent of non-major...
by Jane Richey | Feb 10, 2013 | Agenda 21, Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
Coal miners and coal executives alike are upset at the recent push for environmental regulations that will cripple, if not put an end, to the entire coal mining industry. All this in the name of clean energy, which has yet to be proven to be sustainable and a viable...
