by Jane Richey | Sep 16, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The federal government raked in a record of approximately $2,472,542,000,000 in tax revenues through the first eleven months of fiscal 2013, which ran from Oct. 1, 2012 through the end of August, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement for August. That is up about...
by Jane Richey | Mar 18, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Federal spending was up $30.5 billion in the first five months of fiscal 2013 compared to the first five months of fiscal 2012, according to newly released data from the U.S. Treasury. The federal fiscal year begins on Oct. 1 and runs through Sept. 30. In the first...
by Jane Richey | Feb 26, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Inflation-adjusted per capita federal spending went up $822.90 from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2012, according to official data from the U.S. Treasury and the Census Bureau. Real federal spending also increased $2437.64 per household between 2008 and 2012. In constant 2012...
by Jane Richey | Aug 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
President Barack Obama has such ill-advised contempt for the intelligence of American taxpayers that he has become an habitual liar when talking about his plans to deal with a national debt that will imminently top $16 trillion. For example, on Aug. 14, he told a...
by Jane Richey | May 25, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
President Barack Obama on Wednesday staked his claim to being the most effective fiscal conservative to serve in the White House in more than half a century. “Since I’ve been president, federal spending has risen at the lowest pace in nearly 60 years,” Obama said at a...
