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By Rick Manning If Congress is seriously interested in finding people to cut perhaps they just need to look at those responsible for producing automobile company sales projections for the year 2025. That’s right, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation spent your tax dollars […]

By Paul Driessen In a repeat of Copenhagen, on the eve of the Durban climate change gabfest, someone released another horde of emails from alarmist climate researchers , including Dr. Michael Mann, whose infamous “hockey stick” was headlined in the 2001 IPCC report to justify the Kyoto agreement and […]

By Rebecca DiFede Gingrich, Bachmann, Romney and Santorum survived round one of Americans for Limited Government’s presidential brackets, and now you can vote for your favorite today! It’s down to Gingrich, Bachmann, Romney and Santorum. In the epic battle to win the title of GOP Presidential nominee, these four […]

By Robert Romano — “This is nothing more than Obama’s economic humbug, just in time for the holidays,” remarked Americans for Limited Government (ALG) President Bill Wilson in response to the Bureau of Economic Analysis’ downward revision of economic growth in the third quarter. “First at 2.5 percent, then 2 percent, and now revised downward to an anemic 1.8 […]

By Robert Romano — It’s very clear now that the current payroll tax holiday is going to expire come New Year’s Day, and taxes of 140.5 million Americans who work for a living are going to increase.  The only question outstanding is who to blame. For that, one need look no further than the U.S. Senate, which […]

By Robert Romano — One can fault House Republicans for many things, but opposing an extension of the payroll tax cut and another extension of unemployment benefits is not one of them. Whether one agrees with the issue or not, the fact is, the House has already passed extensions of both of these items .  At a cost […]

By Robert Romano –One claim made by supporters of extending the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits is that 160 million Americans will have their taxes increased if the legislation does not pass. For example by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi: “The payroll tax cut that the […]

By Robert Romano — A year ago, when Congress was considering cutting the payroll tax in return for extending current income tax rates, Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson thought it was a bad deal. At the time, without offsetting spending cuts, he opposed the $120 billion hole caused by underfunding the Social Security program, along with extending unemployment benefits by $56 billion , calling them “budget-busters”. Now, a year later, the lowered […]

By Robert Romano — Since being introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, the so-called “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA) has drawn strong opposition from Internet companies large and small, as well as civil libertarians and grassroots organizations.  One of the major criticisms is that the legislation would give the government […]