By Robert Romano – Even if some of the most conservative estimates of participation in ObamaCare prove to be correct in the next 15 years, the legislation will still mean expenditures of about $102.8 billion every year once fully implemented, or about $1 trillion over ten years. […]

By Robert Romano – One of the first orders of business the House of Representatives under Speaker John Boehner’s reign will be to repeal the ObamaCare legislation. The bill included a massive expansion of the Medicaid program with 23.8 million potential new enrollees as well as taxpayer-subsidized […]

By Robert Romano – “Death panels” received renewed interest over the Christmas season in a New York Times piece by Robert Pear, “Obama Returns to End-of-Life Plan That Caused Stir.” The story outlines a new 691-page regulation that to puts into place end-of-life counseling, called “advanced care planning,” via the Medicare […]

By Robert Romano – It is time to stop kicking the can on the $13.8 trillion national debt. Sharp spending cuts, the elimination of corporate welfare and subsidies, and a flattening of the tax code at lower rates are all needed to bring America’s fiscal house into […]

By Robert Romano – At least four Senate Republican are considering voting for the $1.27 trillion omnibus spending bill now under consideration: Senators Kit Bond, George Voinovich, Susan Collins, and Bob Bennett, reports The Hill . “The support of Senators Bond, Voinovich, Collins and Bennett would be enough to push […]

By Robert Romano – “The unchecked expansion of congressional power to the limits suggested by the Minimum Essential Coverage Provision would invite unbridled exercise of federal police powers,” wrote Federal District Judge Henry Hudson in his decision invalidating the individual mandate to purchase health insurance imposed by ObamaCare . Such a declaration should shock regular Americans who respect the boundaries imposed by constitutional, limited government. Even more […]

By Robert Romano We can’t say we weren’t warned. On October 1st, 2008, Senator Jim DeMint hypothesized that one of the principal causes of the federal government’s plan to purchase toxic mortgage-backed securities as part of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) was to bail […]

By Robert Romano – The European Union (EU) is on the brink of failure, and the lesson should be telling here across the pond. The problems seem fairly straightforward. The debts of these EU member states are growing faster than their economies, and they are growing larger […]

By Robert Romano – Did White House Counsel Robert Bauer authorize the use of the presidential seal on the cover of the Center for American Progress November 2010 publication, “ The Power of the President “? That’s what Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson wants to know. On November 24th, he wrote a letter to Mr. Bauer to ask . You see, the use of the seal is restricted under law […]

By Robert Romano – The world is plotting against Paul Krugman’s economic central planning scheme.  At least, that’s what we’re supposed to believe, based on his recent contribution to the national political dialogue, “Axis of Depression.” In this piece, Krugman has a theory about recent Republican criticism […]