Government Spending

Overall, any substantial benefits to the taxpayers in the form of property tax reductions would be overshadowed by long-term tax increases. As a good rule of thumb, if any liberal politician is pushing for “tax reform” it would inevitably take money out of taxpayers’ wallets. Proposition HH is, in fact, a wolf in sheep’s clothing for the rights the Colorado taxpayers have exercised since the implementation of TABOR.

Congress, and the Republican-led House of Representatives in particular, controls the nation’s purse strings. With this being the case, it is imperative that the GOP play hardball concerning the looming budget showdown.

In 2000, our national debt stood at $5.6 trillion compared to our GDP, which clocked in at roughly $10 trillion. Today, those figures have almost reversed. Now, our national debt has ballooned to approximately $33 trillion, while our GDP has increased to $25 trillion.

If citizens can vote on debt at the state and local level, why shouldn’t they have the power to vote on debt at the federal level as well?

We need a leader in the White House who is willing to come clean with the American people about our out-of-control spending and debt accumulation. Sadly, President Biden does not appear to be up for that task.

If Bush and her fellow misguided socialists really want to address the wealth gap, they would be clamoring for two things: universal school choice and maintaining the black nuclear family.

Unlike his recent predecessors, Biden is taking a “my way or the highway” approach when it comes to hiking the debt ceiling and negotiating with Congress.

Once again, the federal government’s malignant effect on the economy is our top story. Now it’s a debate over whether to raise the debt ceiling.

Just about nothing US infrastructure has anything to do with DC.

Politicians love to spend other people’s money, especially when it enables them to use it to get campaign contributions and election-day votes from those who can keep them in office

The U.S. government will, again, face an official debt limit starting on August 1, 2021, unless Congress once more raises the limit on what Uncle Sam can borrow.

The Congressional Budget Office has recently issued a federal “Budget Outlook Update”

You don’t want government anywhere near any insurance policies you purchase.

There has been much back-and-forthing over who should and shouldn’t get money from the CARES Act.

In its 2021 fiscal budget, the Trump administration has proposed an increase over its request for the Department of Interior in 2020.

As the philosopher Rahm Emanuel once said, "Never let a good crisis go to waste."

At the end of April, Illinois utility regulators issued a call to repeal a pro-consumer federal order, called the Minimum Price Order Rule. Here's what this means.

For decades, the state that has been dominated by one-party that has been laying the foundation for a budget catastrophe.

Policymakers should look at how Australia decentralized its infrastructure management to create a similar system in the United States.

Taxing the rich has seemed to be one of the Band-Aid solutions for California’s budget, but that’s dangerous as seventy percent of the General Fund is already provided by personal taxes on just five percent of the population.

During my last visit to the grocery store, the clerk directed me to the hermetically sealed conveyor belt and, grinning proudly, said, “Welcome to the new normal.”

In Uncle Sam’s 2020 fiscal year that began on October 1, 2019, it is estimated that the federal government will spend around $4.4 trillion, of which about $1 trillion will be with borrowed money to cover the budget deficit of that amount.

In these trying times coping with the Coronavirus, and its huge impact on businesses and employment, the younger generations have been set up to pick up some the costs of the defined benefits that their parents and grandparents voted in for themselves.

The CARES Act is one of the few government bailouts that doesn't set a bad precedent.