by Christopher Ingraham. The Drug Enforcement Administration is not having a great year. The chief of the agency stepped down in April under a cloud of scandal. The acting administrator since then has courted ridicule for saying pot is "probably not" as dangerous as heroin, and more recently he provoked 100,000 petition-signers and seven ... MORE
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Showing posts with label spending. Show all posts
National Debt Spikes $578 Billion In Three Weeks
By Pete Kasperowicz. Spending frenzy after debt ceiling suspension. The national debt has surged more than half a trillion dollars in the last three weeks, as the suspension of the debt ceiling in late October has allowed the government to borrow as much as it wants. Before the debt ceiling was suspended, the national debt stood at $18.15 ... MORE
Feds Collect Record 2015 Tax Haul: $19,346 Per Worker
by Michael Lotfi. Gov't overspent by nearly $530 billion anyway. According to a monthly treasury statement, through the first eleven months of fiscal year 2015 (Oct. 1, 2014 – end of August), the United States federal government has collected a record-breaking haul in tax revenue. In total, the feds have collected over $2.8 trillion so far, which ... MORE
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John W. Whitehead: The Real Issues That You Won't Hear From The 2016 Presidential Candidates This Election Year
Government's stealth tyranny. We now have less than one year until the 2016 presidential election. Despite the dire state of our nation, however, you can rest assured that none of the problems that continue to undermine our freedoms will be addressed in any credible way by the presidential candidates—certainly not if doing so might ... MORE
More Trouble For Jerry Brown's Rail Boondoggle
by Steven Greenhut. Moonbeam's plan no longer resembles original proposal. One of the biggest problems with California Gov. Jerry Brown's efforts to battle climate change is the "do or die" nature of the situation. Based on his rhetoric, there's little room for debate over costs, benefits, details and oversight. When the future of the Earth is at stake, ... MORE
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Marcus E. Howard: The Pentagon Has Squandered Millions Paying Pro Sports Teams To Honor Soldiers At Games
It's like paying a whore to say, "I love you." The Pentagon and National Guard paid professional sports teams to publicly honor soldiers at sporting events, according to a Senate oversight report released Wednesday that labeled the practice “inappropriate and frivolous.” Since the end of 2011, the military has spent $6.8 million on sports ... MORE
John W Whitehead: The Real Issues You Won't Hear From The 2016 Presidential Candidates This Election Year
The tyranny behind the curtain. We now have less than one year until the 2016 presidential election. Despite the dire state of our nation, however, you can rest assured that none of the problems that continue to undermine our freedoms will be addressed in any credible way by the presidential candidates—certainly not if doing so might ... MORE
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education,
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police state,
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surveillance,
SWAT,
war
Bjørn Lomborg: Blowing It On The Wind
The hot air surrounding wind power. When
considering climate change, most people think wind turbines and solar
panels are a big part of the solution. But, over the next 25 years, the
contribution of solar and wind power to resolving the problem will be
trivial – and the cost will be enormous. The International Energy Agency estimates
that ... MORE
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Senator Mike Lee: Let's Be Honest About The Debt Limit
Here we go again. The federal government has predictably maxed out its credit card for the fifth time in the last four years. The Treasury Department now insists there will be “catastrophic economic consequences” unless the debt limit is raised by Nov. 3. If that wasn’t depressing enough, consider that Congress has less than two ... MORE
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Stephen Moore: Winning the Debt-Limit Fight
Putting the brakes on exploding debt. During his eight years in office, Barack Obama is on pace to have increased the national debt by a horrific $8 trillion — and, ironically, the folks on Wall Street and the mavens of the media still portray congressional Republicans as the fiscal bad boys for trying to slow down the blizzard of borrowing. ... MORE
How The Postal Service Continues To Burn Money
by Ken Blackwell. Most people are going to tell you that they can’t stand seeing good
money go to waste. When it comes to the U.S. government, however,
wasteful spending continues to be the name of the game. A repeat culprit
of government waste — the United States Postal Service (USPS),
which recorded a revenue loss of $5.5 billion ... MORE
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America Has Way Too Many Overseas Military Bases
There are 800 bases in foreign countries. With the U.S. military having withdrawn many of its forces from Iraq and Afghanistan, most Americans would be forgiven for being unaware that hundreds of U.S. bases and hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops still encircle the globe. Although few know it, the United States garrisons the planet ... MORE
Lawrence J. McQuillan: The United States Of America Now Has Less Economic Freedom Than Chile, Jordan, Or Taiwan
The verdict on hope and change is in. Today the Fraser Institute in Vancouver, Canada, released the 2015 Economic Freedom of the World Report (pdf) and it’s bad news for the United States, where economic freedom is falling. The U.S. ranks only 16th in economic freedom trailing Chile, Jordan, and Taiwan. The EFW Report measures the level ... MORE
Amber Phillips: Experts Say Government Shutdown Likely
The real thing is too much to ask for. In America, you can't legally bet on political outcomes (at least not yet). But if you could, we'd advise you to put some money on the government shutting down on Oct. 1. As Congress gets back to work this week, it's facing a nearly unprecedented number of deadlines and political dramas. The government needs ... MORE
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