by Jane Richey | Nov 2, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
President Obama has a new booklet—a glossy, 20-page spread called “The New Economic Patriotism: A Plan for Jobs and Middle-Class Security.” The title is completely Orwellian, since the plan—which is nothing new—would actually kill jobs, harming the middle class. As...
by Jane Richey | Aug 23, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Vice President Joe Biden, speaking at a high school in Detroit Wednesday, said “it won’t cost the government a penny” to help more homeowners stay in their homes, “if the Republicans would just get out of the way.” Biden took credit for cutting taxes for the middle...
by Jane Richey | Jul 10, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
“The last thing you want to do is to raise taxes in the middle of a recession, because that would just suck up—take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.” That was President Obama in 2009, trying to reassure Americans that he was going...
by Jane Richey | Jul 10, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The policy that President Obama described Monday as a middle-class tax cut would result in taxpayers paying nearly $1.3 trillion more over an eight-year period than they would have under his previous proposal, according to Congressional Budget Office figures. “I’m...
by Jane Richey | Jul 3, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
It looks like a tax, smells like a tax, and the Supreme Court says it must be a tax. But politicians in both parties are squirming over how to define the Thing in President Barack Obama’s health care law that requires people to pay up if they don’t get...