Dan O’Donnell on why President Biden’s budget proposal would exacerbate the inflation crisis. Read More Biden Doubles Down on Inflationary Policies
Biden Doubles Down on Inflationary Policies
Federal Budget
Report: Pork Spending in Federal Budget More than Doubled Since Last Year
The 2018 federal budget didn’t just shatter spending caps – it also features record-breaking numbers of pork projects and earmarks. Overall, the cost of earmarks skyrocketed to $14.7 billion in 2018 – an unprecedented and ill-advised increase of 116 percent since just last year. Read More Report: Pork Spending in Federal Budget More than Doubled Since Last Year
Speaker Ryan: We Need a Mandate From the American People This Fall to Turn This Country Around
MacIver News Service – Speaking with the MacIver Institute last Friday, Ryan criticized President Obama’s latest budget proposal as a tax-and-spend agenda that grows government and never balances. Republicans must present a clear contrast to liberal, progressive policies by laying out an agenda of conservative reforms early in this year. Read More Speaker Ryan: We Need a Mandate From the American People This Fall to Turn This Country Around
Advice to Taxpayers: Find Out Where Your Transportation Dollars are Going
Summer is here, and that means America is hitting the roads for family road-trips, driving into town for big concerts or just letting the top down for a joy ride. Meanwhile, Congress and state legislatures across the nation can’t figure out how to sustainably fund their transportation budgets to keep those roads serviceable. Read More Advice to Taxpayers: Find Out Where Your Transportation Dollars are Going
How Much the Growing Debt Costs U.S. Households
From the Wall Street Journal – Simply put, 2014 has not been a good year for the debt. While the short-term deficit improved-after growing 800% following the financial crisis-policymakers still added more than $100 billion to the debt. Because billions are hard to conceptualize, it is worth looking at this in terms of debt per household. Read More How Much the Growing Debt Costs U.S. Households