federal budget

Government spending and its evil twin, taxation, harm people every day, sometimes mocking taxpayers by claiming to help them, even as they inflict serious economic damage. Reducing spending and taxes, and therefore reducing the harm they cause, is the best way government can actually help people.

Trump’s “skinny budget” may not be passed into law verbatim, lawmakers should work with the president to do the right thing and keep intact the intent and spirit behind the budget outline.

“If you like your health plan, you can keep it,” is the Lie of the Year, according to PolitiFact. But Barack Obama has been operating under an even more momentous lie for his entire presidency.

Steve Stanek says the most recent federal budget deal is meaningless! It’s a scam, a sham, a fraud! Congress hasn’t had an actual budget since 2009, and they barely have one now.

The latest federal budget deal amounts to saving two days of spending over the next decade. A sliver of a sliver of savings.

Paul Ryan gives GOP a short-term win. But has the “Stupid Party” snatched defeat from the jaws of victory … again?

This is a true Tea Party agenda that should be the Republican agenda, and the true American Kennedy Democrat agenda.

President Obama is going to hit his perpetual campaign trail to tell Americans that the economy is turning around and that his policies of the first four years have worked. They have not.

I’m scanning headlines on the Internet. I see President Obama has announced he’ll agree to cut Social Security and other benefit programs in exchange for higher taxes. I think, “Take…

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…

Heartland Institute Senior Fellow Ross Kaminsky was a guest last night on the always smart and informative Kudlow Report on CNBC. Kudlow asked him on the program to talk about…

We watch MSNBC (sometimes) so you don’t have to! Our Benjamin Domenech was on MSNBC’s “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell” giving viewers the non-leftist view on the sequester debate.…

For four straight years, the United States of America has not adopted a budget, notwithstanding the requirement of Article I, Section 9, of the Constitution that “a regular statement and…