by Jane Richey | Feb 14, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
During Tuesday’s State of the Union, President Obama called for an increase in preschool education in order to prepare workers in the future: “[N]one of it will matter unless we also equip our citizens with the skills and training to fill those jobs. And that...
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
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...