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This article is just plain disturbing.  Some of our friends in the Homeland Security department “charged taxpayers for a shopping spree after hurricanes ravaged the Gulf Coast, spending tens of thousands of dollars for items such as a beer-brewing kit, dog booties and a 63-inch plasma television set.”
Yet another reason why budget restraints are needed [...]

Mike Kopp, one of 3 candidates running for Senate District 22 in Colorado, quickly signed FreedomWorks Candidate Tax Pledge refusing to support any legislation that increases Colorado’s tax burden or weakens TABOR. 
 
You may recall that Senate District 22 is home to the retired Senator Norma Anderson who was a staunch supporter of the state’s biggest [...]

Justin Everett, one of 3 candidates running for Senate District 22 in Colorado, quickly signed FreedomWorks Candidate Tax Pledge refusing to support any legislation that increases Colorado’s tax burden or weakens TABOR. 
 
You may recall that Senate District 22 is home to the retired Senator Norma Anderson who was a staunch supporter of the state’s biggest [...]

Andrew Coulson has an excellent post at Cato’s blog explaining how a National Center for Education Statistics study that shows little testing advantage of private schools only over public schools to casts no doubt on the value of vouchers, because the value of vouchers lies in creating a competitive education marketplace.  He explains that
A vigorous [...]

The Director General of the Center for Global Economic Growth at FreedomWorks, Dr. Richard Rahn, has a great piece in The Washington Times about U.N. tyranny.
He writes, “Should the U.N. be able to tax you? Over the last several years, officials at the U.N. and other international organizations have been hatching schemes to directly tax the world’s [...]

In a debate yesterday between professor David Farber, called the “grandfather” of the Internet for his pioneering work which provided much of the groundwork for later innovators, and Vinton Cerf, “father” of the Internet and chief Internet Evangelist at Google, Farber expressed a healthy dose of skepticism towards government involvement in the Internet, fearing that [...]

Despite public frustration over high pump prices and flush industry profits, major refining companies are seeking and winning large local tax breaks for their refinery-expansion plans with little political opposition. The author says that refinery tax breaks haven’t emerged as a political lightning rod, in part because the industry argues that its new projects could [...]

These days, it seems as if pork spending goes just about everywhere. Mariachi music in Nevada middle schools, a bridge to nowhere in Alaska, and thousands of other pet projects continue to fatten the federal budget deficit as Members of Congress look appeal to every special interest in their constituencies.  The latest project to be added to the list is the D.C. Metro, [...]

 
Ann McFeatters has a column in today’s Washington Times about the minimum wage and congressional pay raises.
She writes, “The argument against [the minimum wage] is that employers will curtail hiring low-income workers. President Bush argues tax cuts are a better way to raise all boats.”
I happen to agree with the arguments against the minimum wage.
But [...]

The controversial Sarbanes-Oxley regulations have gone global. Beginning Saturday, foreign firms listing on U.S. exchanges must comply with SOX regulations if they have more than $75 million in market capitalization. This is good news for U.S. businesses and bad news for companies such as Toyota, BP, and Sony, as applying the onerous burdens of SOX Section [...]