The Social Securities 2006 Trustees Report was released yesterday and, not suprisingly, they’re still won’t be enough money to pay the benefits we’re promising, we still have no legal ownership of the Social Security benefits we’re being promised, and we still can’t leave those promised checks to anyone but Uncle Sam, even if we die [...]
The Senate is trying hard to spend even more of those tax dollars you just finished filing. The Heritage Foundation has just released “The Senate’s Deadly Sin: Larding Up Emergency Appropriations” which looks at the $24,000,000,000.00 (that’s billions) the Senate is right now trying to add to the President’s $92,000,000,000.00 President Bush requested for [...]
The Tax Foundation has released its annual Tax Freedom Day report for 2006.
Tax Freedom Day is the day that Americans have earned enough since January 1st to pay their taxes if every penny earned were turned over to the government. This year, Tax Freedom Day is April 26th. We will work until April [...]
Thomas M. Keane Jr. writes in the Boston Globe that Boston is considering providing “free” city wide wireless Internet for its taxpayers…with 20 million taxpayers dollars.
But, as Mr. Keane reports, city-wide and even nation-wide wireless Internet is already available. He says: “Well, good news: It’s already here. I know, because for the last year, [...]
Republican Sens. Burns, Chafee, Collins, Domenici, Lugar, Smith, Snowe, and Talent, as well as every Democrat Senator, voted last night to continue the raid on the Social Security tax surplus. Be sure to call them and let them know that was a bad vote!
So the Senate is now officially on the record on Social Security [...]
The Wall Street Journal has an editorial today opposing the Specter-Daschle asbestos trust fund. They hit the nail on the head when they say, “The companies that support the trust fund would receive an immediate benefit, while taxpayers would be assuming a lifetime of political risk.” Full text below.
There’s a crucial vote today on [...]
The White House released it 2007 budget today. The AP coverage is here and you can read it in all it’s official glory here(printed out, it’s about 7 inches thick).
For perspective, take a look at this new report from Brian Riedl at the Heritage Foundation called Federal Spending — By the Numbers. [...]
This afternoon, the House of Representatives elected a new House Majority Leader, the position once held by FreedomWorks Chairman Dick Armey. They chose Rep. John Boehner (R-OH), who issued the following statement:
I am humbled and honored by the confidence my Republican colleagues have expressed in me with today’s vote. This afternoon, House [...]
CongressDaily reports that the budget reconciliation bill has been passed, again, by the House.
The House narrowly approved legislation to trim the federal budget deficit by $39 billion over five years Wednesday, 216-214, finally sending the measure to the president’s desk after a process that began with President Bush’s FY06 budget proposal last February.
This [...]
The most engaging part of President Bush’s speech last night was when he spoke about Social Security reform. As he usually does when he talks about Social Security reform, he lit up and smoothly delivered his linesâ€â€a sign that he believes in what he’s saying.
The Democrats rose in a standing ovation when Bush said, [...]
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Brendan is the Director of Federal and State Campaigns for FreedomWorks. He is the author of The Conservative Revolution: How to Win the Battle for College Campuses.
