Heritage Responds to Obama’s Debt Reduction and Tax Proposal
Heritage’s experts watched President Barack Obama’s debt reduction and tax increase proposal. Here are their immediate reactions: Obama’s Plan Is More Bad News for Defense… Read More
VIDEO: Sen. Mike Lee Says Obama’s Jobs Plan Will Make Problem Worse
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) came to Washington as the a tea-party conservative with the goal of fixing the economy, addressing the debt crisis and curbing… Read More
Federally Funded Boulders for Nevada
Yesterday, I wrote about the House-passed bill H.R. 2887, which would reauthorize expiring aviation and surface transportation programs for a few months. Senator Tom Coburn… Read More
Chart of the Week: How Social Security Is Contributing to the Spending Crisis
Last week’s presidential debate at the Reagan Library elevated Social Security as a national issue that could reshape the 2012 campaign. Candidates spent the week… Read More
More ‘Stimulus’ Spending on Failed Public Safety Grant Programs
President Obama’s plan for turning America around is big on new spending, with insincere promises of budget cuts to come later. In particular, the President… Read More
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Depends on What You Mean by ‘Meeting’: Super Committee Expected to Be Super Secret
The Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (also known as the “super committee”) met for the first time today. This bipartisan, bicameral committee was created… Read More
Morning Bell: Big Government Rising?
How does a trillion dollars in more federal government spending sound to you? For most Americans, the idea of growing government at a time when… Read More
Big Labor Makes Big Spending Demands on President Obama
The Big Labor full-court press is in full swing ahead of President Barack Obama’s speech next week in which he will roll-out a new jobs plan…. Read More
Social Security’s Disability Program Faces an Empty Trust Fund
With continuing unemployment problems driving more and more Americans to seek Social Security disability benefits, that program’s already weakened trust fund faces a bleak future…. Read More
Heritage Radio: Member Questions, U.S. Credit Downgrade, Poverty
This week’s Heritage Libertad Radio program – half in English, half in Spanish – covered the recent S & P downgrade, including a discussion with… Read More
