Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Politics
Congress Must Wake Up Soon to Out-of-Control Spending
Is it too much to ask that Congress wakes up to a new day, and soon?
Tagged: federal spending
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Politics
Barack Obama’s Presidency Is A Complete Failure By His Own, Self-Imposed Standards
At the end of 2013, after serving five years, Barack Obama is a complete failure as President, by his own standards, as reflected in his own words.
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Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Podcast
Heartland Daily Podcast: Steve Stanek- Federal Budget Deal is Meaningless
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.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Politics
Republicans Go to ‘War’ Over Cutting 1/1,825th of Federal Spending
The latest federal budget deal amounts to saving two days of spending over the next decade. A sliver of a sliver of savings.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Politics
A Bad Budget Deal Compared to What?
Paul Ryan gives GOP a short-term win. But has the “Stupid Party” snatched defeat from the jaws of victory … again?
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Politics
Taxes Out of Control and Out of Bounds
All of Illinois’ neighboring states were in the top half of Chief Executive Magazine’s 2012 list of best states for business. Illinois was rated third worst.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Politics
Entitlement Reform, Tea Party Style
This is a true Tea Party agenda that should be the Republican agenda, and the true American Kennedy Democrat agenda.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Media · Politics · Taxes
Heartland’s Domenech on Hannity: Quotes Coolidge on Wasteful Spending
“Every dollar that we carelessly waste makes the life of an American that much more meager,” said Calvin Coolidge. As Heartland’s Ben Domenech pointed out on “Hannity,” liberals could care less.
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Legal Affairs · Liberty
NSA, Net Neutrality, It’s All About Controlling the Internet – and You
Net Neutrality mandates that the government regulate the entire Web. Which means the government lords over every single website on the planet. No First Amendment problem there, right?
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Liberty · Politics
With Tens of Millions of Phone Records Grabbed – It’s the Government, Stupid
Because Congress in many areas hasn’t yet addressed the gaping hole of protecting our data from Big Government, we are left exposed and subject to huge, illegal power grabs.
The Left – Feeble Arguments, Weak Shots, Conspiracy Theories and Zero Debate
Last Monday at Red State, I wrote: How Ridiculous is Net Neutrality? Let the Left’s ‘Consumer’ Groups Demonstrate In which I referenced a bit of good news on the Internet[...]
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Regulation · Taxes
Dear New FCC Chairman Wheeler, Please Stop the Attacks on the Internet
FCC Chairman-to-be Wheeler could do immense good if he ended his predecessor’s existing and prospective power grabs and kept the FCC within its legal authority limits.
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Regulation
Sorry Left, U.S. Actually Does the Internet Better Than Europe
The Left wants the Internet and cellular market much more heavily regulated – like they do in Europe. Again, the Barack Obama Administration is (in unilateral, Congress-free fashion) delivering.
Economics · Featured · Internet/Telecom · Politics · Regulation · Taxes
‘Fair’: Government Taxing Businesses to Fund Competitors to Their Businesses
President Barack Obama and the Left have declared the government is now even more extensively in the economic “fairness” business.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Internet/Telecom
Only Government Complains About Having More Customers
Every private sector company spends every waking second (and many sleeping ones) trying to get new customers. It’s a relentless pursuit of improvement. Of their goods and services, customer service,[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Internet/Telecom
Federal Government Looking to Tax Internet – And Let States Do It Too
The Big Government, Never-Enough-of-Your-Coin-Coalition – Internet Division – is at it yet again. The Barack Obama Administration has since it’s inception been very active in over-regulating the Web – for[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Politics
The Progressive Income Tax Turns 100
My enduring question for progressives is one they typically avoid answering, especially those holding elected office: In your perfect world, where, exactly, would you position the top rate?
Obama Again Picking Private Sector Losers at the Expense of Winners
The Barack Obama Administration is fabulously successful at choosing terribly in the private sector. Solyndra. Fisker. The Chevy Volt. Ener1. A123 Systems. Beacon Power. Abound Solar. Evergreen Solar. And on,[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Internet/Telecom · Politics
You Can Have a Big Economy, or a Big Government – Not Both
President Barack Obama has for five-plus years said and done two contradictory things regarding the United States’ economy. 1) He has repeatedly said that he wants the private sector to recover –[...]
Paul Ryan’s House Republican Budget vs. Patty Murray’s Senate Democrat Budget
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[...]
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- Charles Krauthammer: Thought police on patrol - The Washington Post
- Thoughtcrime at Mozilla — Jonathan Last Online
- A Conversation Between Milton Friedman and Gary Becker
- Organic activists need GMOs now more than ever
- Bullies drove Eich from public square: Column
- Jonah Goldberg: Climate activists uncaged
