by Jane Richey | Dec 11, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility
Many had high hopes that the first budget conference in four years would make a substantial down payment [1] toward fixing the U.S. spending and debt crisis. The new “Bipartisan Budget Act [2]” thoroughly disappoints. While we dig through the details for a more...
by Jane Richey | Dec 10, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
James Madison was very adamant that the power of the purse be preserved in the body of government that is closest to the people – the House of Representatives – as a way to redress all grievances against harmful government interventions. We have a law that is...
