How to Limit Government in the Age of Obama
By Joseph Postell, Ph.D., Robert E. Moffit, Ph.D. and Todd F. Gaziano
Read MoreEcon/Tax/Spend/Big Govt
While the Rest of Us Toil, Government Workers Get ‘Official Time”
From Real Clear Markets: With a backlog of almost 1 million unprocessed benefit claims at the Department of Veterans Affairs, it is shocking that over 250 of the Department’s employees are on “official time,”…
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A Rare Glimpse at How a Free Market Could Work
From Dan Mitchell: I’ve complained ad nauseam about how government has screwed up the health sector, both because of spending programs such as Medicare and Medicaid and because of tax and regulatory distortions that…
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Tax Reform Is the IRS Fix
From Larry Kudlow: Apart from criminal prosecution, the best way to strip the power of politics and corruption from the IRS is to initiate broad-based, pro-growth tax reform and simplification. It’s the complexity of…
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The 20 Greatest Quotations From Rush Limbaugh
Another good list from John Hawkins — here are just five of his Rush quotes: 20) “I guess politicians can be excused for thinking the electorate is stupid because they keep winning reelection. If…
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The Return of Limited Government, ObamaCare is the Empire Striking Back
An excerpt from a recent post by Tim Phillips: The federal government’s spending has more than doubled since 2000. Federal debt has increased $6 trillion since President Obama was elected. With spending racing forward…
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Easy Fix to IRS Corruption
By Matt Barber: Sir John Dalberg-Acton famously observed, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” No federal agency enjoys more power than the “absolute power” wielded by the Internal Revenue Service. It’s little wonder, then, that under this power-drunk Obama regime, the IRS has become “corrupted absolutely.” It’s become the hammer to this president’s favorite nail: political dissent. […]
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Who Really Gets Farm Bill Money (INFOGRAPHIC)
From the Heritage Foundation: Whenever Congress throws too much into one bill, special interests profit. The massive farm bill—which is already 80 percent food stamps—is no exception. So what about the rest of the…
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The One Number You Need to Know in O’s Budget
From National Review: Here’s the number to keep in mind: $763 billion. If enacted, Barack Obama’s latest budget would mean that in just ten years, interest payments alone on the national debt would begin…
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Public sector unions = higher debt
It’s pretty simple, actually. From PublicSectorInc.com: States with more heavily unionized public-sector workforces are more likely to have higher total debt, according to this new study from the Beacon Hill Institute in Boston. Specifically,…
Read MoreVIDEO: What Conservatives Are For
Here is a recent speech by U.S. Senator Mike Lee at the Heritage Foundation and a few excerpts below… Freedom doesn’t divide us. Big government does. It’s big government that turns citizens into supplicants,…
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The New Barbarians
An excellent article by Gary Horne at American Thinker: Recent abuses of power are a reminder that the barbarians are still with us, using the power of progressive government to punish anyone who dares…
Read MoreDefined benefit pension plans can’t work
From Ted Dabrowski at the Illinois Policy Institute: The blame for Illinois’ pension crisis is often laid at the feet of state politicians who supposedly “skipped” payments and caused the state’s five pension systems…
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The Swedish Welfare State Is on Fire
In case anyone still thinks Sweden is the model…from Gary North at LewRockwell.com: Stockholm’s rioting goes on, night after night. The police seem powerless to stop this. Immigrant youths are in the streets, burning…
Read MoreA Diabolical Tool: Ready to get rid of the income tax?
From Lawrence Reed at The Freeman: Polls have shown for years that Americans think the current federal income tax system is “unfair.” And that was before the disgusting IRS targeting of conservatives, libertarians, tea…
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