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Who says bipartisanship is dead? We recently had 57 Senators and 152 House members – (obviously) culled from both Parties – sign letters to Barack Obama Administration Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker. In which[…]
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Calling the Ryan-Murray budget deal “A Huge Republican Cave-In” is not accurate.
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Does anyone still believe anything Obama says?
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured
A nation that has not adopted a proper budget in years…still has no meaningful control over ongoing expenses, accumulated debt, or a plan for dealing with either.
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Last time, it was the Platinum Bond. This time, the Premium Bond. What will they think of next?
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Heartland Institute’s Ben Domenech was interviewed by Washington Post’s Nia-Malika Henderson, to discuss the government shut down. As the government gets closer to approaching the debt ceiling, Domenech addresses the Republican and Democratic Parties’[…]
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“Has the ongoing struggle over Obamacare and the debt ceiling devolved into a game of political posturing and optics”
The competing budgets released last week by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-WA) definitively define the growing differences between the two[…]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics · Taxes
President Obama tells the nation that Congress must increase the debt limit because they “should pay the bills that they have already racked up.” Let me translate that into household[…]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Taxes
Broadening the tax base and lowering the rate, the current whiz-bang solution to both the government debt problem and the recession, has the support of Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) from[…]
America’s answer to Soviet central planning — the Federal Reserve — yesterday announced it’s determined to hold interest rates to virtually zero for another two years. This will give savers[…]
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If doing the same thing and expecting different results really does indicate insanity, then President Obama must be insane. I listened to his talk earlier today and heard a lot[…]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics · Taxes
The talking point of the weekend from the Obama administration and Congressional Democrats was that Standard & Poor’s reduction of the U.S. government’s credit rating from sterling AAA to less-shiny[…]
Heartland friend Alan Caruba is quick to react to the news tonight that S&P has downgraded America’s credit rating for the first time in our history. A quick excerpt of[…]
Congressional leaders and the White House on Sunday appeared to come to an agreement to raise the federal debt ceiling. The deal comes with some $2 trillion in promised budget[…]
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(Reactions to recent events by Harrison Schmitt — Heartland Institute Board member, former U.S. Senator (R-N.M.), and the last man (and first scientist) to set foot on the moon. (Cross-posted at America’s Uncommon Sense): The political struggles surrounding[…]
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