by Jane Richey | Jan 2, 2013 | Politics
From Michelle Malkin: President Obama will kick off the new year the same way that he kicked off the old year: by demanding that the wealthy pay their “fair share” in taxes. But while millions of small-business owners, struggling entrepreneurs, inventors, and...
by Jane Richey | Jan 2, 2013 | Agenda 21, Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
Beginning on New Years Day the 75 watt incandescent light bulb was banned from production and importation into the United States. Under current federal law, 60 watt and 40 watt bulbs will be gone by 2014. We’ll instead have to buy Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs...
by Jane Richey | Jan 2, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Every Republican and Democrat who represents Pennsylvania in the U.S. House or Senate this week voted in favor of a deal to avert the so-called ‘fiscal cliff.’ The package allows Bush-era tax cuts to expire for individuals making more than $400,000 and families making...
by Jane Richey | Jan 2, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) called it “a happy start to a new year.” That probably tells you all you need to know about the fiscal cliff deal that passed the House last night. The bill—which President Obama has promised to sign, though he took off for Hawaii...
by Jane Richey | Jan 2, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Never mind the “fiscal cliff.” America went bankrupt, technically, at midnight on December 31, 2012. We hit the debt ceiling of $16.394 trillion. Yet the U.S. government needs to borrow more money than is legally allowed. So Treasury Secretary Timothy...
by Jane Richey | Jan 1, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The House voted late Tuesday evening, in a rare holiday session, to pass a fiscal cliff bill brokered without the involvement of the GOP majority and with far less than half of their votes. The bill (HR 8) was amended by the Senate in the early morning hours on an...
