by Jane Richey | Mar 20, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other social insurance programs are bankrupting America. They will produce ever-escalating deficits for as far as the eye can see. So what can we do about it? All we hear out of Washington are “eat-your-spinach” solutions — both...
by Jane Richey | Mar 20, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Paul Ryan (R-WI), Chairman of the House Budget Committee, will release his budget blueprint today in what will surely be one of the most important policy developments in Washington this year. If as expected Senate Democrats fail yet again to advance a budget for the...
by Jane Richey | Mar 20, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
House Republicans will slash personal income taxes to a 25 percent top rate and a 10 percent lower rate as part of their fiscal 2013 budget proposal to be released Tuesday. The proposal would also lower the top corporate tax rate to 25 percent, and scrap the...
by Jane Richey | Mar 20, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
If the Obama administration persuades the Supreme Court to uphold its health care overhaul law, it will be in large part thanks to a 70-year-old precedent involving an Ohio farmer named Roscoe C. Filburn. Mr. Filburn sued to overturn a 1938 federal law that told him...
by Jane Richey | Mar 20, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment
House Republicans are planning new legislation to thwart Environmental Protection Agency rules that they argue could worsen rising gasoline prices. While details remain scarce, the new bill could provide Republicans a rallying point for continued attacks on the White...