In USA Today, Steve Deace has a satiric column thanking the people most responsible for cutting his paycheck 5% in 2013. He writes: “After all, who’s more qualified to talk about shared sacrifice than those who can vote themselves pay raises whenever they want, pass laws they don’t have to subject themselves to and take… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Government
Fox News poll: 83 percent think government spending is out of control
More than eight in ten American voters (83 percent) think government spending is out of control, according to a Fox News poll released Friday. Source: FOXNews.com
Transparency in Government: Finding Out How Much the Government’s Mistakes Are Costing Us
One of the little known costs that taxpayers unwittingly pay is the Judgment Fund administered by the Treasury Department. This fund is used to pay “judicially and administratively ordered monetary awards against the United States” when it loses lawsuits, as well as settlements by the government of threatened or actual lawsuits. It is a permanent,… Read more »
After ‘the end of big government liberalism’
For all the bitterness in Washington these days, it’s easy to miss the broad consensus that undergirds our contentious politics. Republicans swear to protect Medicare and Social Security, and most recognize they can no longer hope to repeal Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. Democrats voted to make the George W. Bush tax rates permanent for… Read more »