Biden asks for more government spending
Because the federal government just can’t seem to get by on the trillions it spent in the FY 2022 budget, the Biden administration is asking Congress for billions more: President…
Earmarks roar back to life in spending bill
Congress recently approved a catch-all, $1.5 trillion spending bill that, for the first time in years, includes earmarks. And not just a few. According to reporting in The Hill, there…
GAO: Uncle Sam’s financial statements are a mess
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released its annual audit of the federal government’s financial statements. The verdict? Pretty much as you would expect: …much work remains to improve federal…
Paying more for public education to get less
A standard talking point of both teachers’ unions and public school bureaucrats is that education is woefully underfunded, and so more money is needed right away to avoid losing a…
Biden wants even more stimulus spending
Despite the trillions of dollars in relief and stimulus official Washington has injected into the economy, the Biden administration want even more: The Biden administration is preparing to ask Congress…
Biden’s “free” COVID tests are no such thing
When it’s not busy chasing the phantoms it believes are responsible for inflation, the Biden administration is still wrestling with the coronavirus pandemic. For the last few weeks, the big…
California could double its taxes
California voters may have the opportunity to vote on a tax hike that backers say will help fund health care coverage for state residents – in other words, a first…
Paul’s report on government waste in 2021
It’s an open secret that official Washington wastes billions of tax dollars every year…and yet still has the gall to say that such waste is largely fiction. Kentucky Sen. Rand…
Paycheck Protection Program was a costly dud
Among the many federal efforts to prop-up the economy in the wake of government-mandated business closures was the Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP. Roughly $800 billion was shoveled into PPP,…
The progressive bluff on a resurrected BBB
House Democrats, or at those progressives form the safest of House districts, are intent on reanimating the corpse of Build Back Better. While these would-be Dr. Frankenstein’s know they don’t…
