By Printus LeBlanc On June 2, 2014 Seattle’s city council approved a raise in the minimum wage to a highest in the nation $15 an hour. Not one member of the council voted against it. Like most liberal progressives, the Seattle city council believed they could regulate prosperity. The […]

By Natalia Castro Illinois is breaking national records, but perhaps not for the best reasons; Illinois is the only state to have operated without a complete and balanced budget for over 700 days. For nearly two years, Illinois has been in fiscal freefall, and now […]

By Rick Manning As originally published at http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/finance/340869-comcast-tivo-clash-strong-ip-laws-prevent-pauses-in-innovation Comcast is not just a massive cable company; it is much  bigger than that . Comcast owns NBC, CNBC, MSNBC, Telemundo and USA Network. It also owns Universal Pictures, Universal Parks and Resorts as well as the National Hockey League’s Philadelphia Flyers and […]

By Rick Manning As originally published at http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/economy-budget/340230-us-south-korea-trade-issues-are-real-and-theyre-problematic Republic of Korea President Moon Jae-in’s visit to the White House last week was an historic opportunity to reassert old ties and address new challenges facing our two nations. While the North Korean nuclear threat weighs heavily over the entire […]

By Rick Manning As originally published at https://pjmedia.com/blog/missed-it-by-that-much-the-obamacare-enrollee-lie/ Congressional Budget Office estimates are funny things. They are usually taken as gospel when they are put out, and ignored later when they are way off. The latest CBO effort related to the Senate Obamacare replace bill is no exception. […]

By Rick Manning President Donald Trump proved once again when he campaigned in favor of getting better trade deals for America that he was not just telling a story to get votes, but really meant it through the recent sugar deal his Commerce Department just completed in […]

By Peter Hong President Trump and the Republican majority in Congress have pledged to do something that hasn’t been done in over thirty years: comprehensively reform our badly broken tax code.  Having stalled on legislation to overhaul Obamacare, failed to even begin construction on a […]

By Robert Romano In Obamacare replacement legislation offered by the Senate Republicans this week, like the House-passed legislation, the individual and employer mandates were eliminated. However, one problem with the House bill was that it essentially repackaged the individual mandate, renaming it the “continuous coverage” penalty , which would have increased […]

By Natalia Castro President Trump’s nomination of Patrick Pizzella to be Deputy Secretary of Labor demonstrates, once again, the President’s emphasis on streamlining executive agencies ridding them of waste, while cutting the regulatory burdens on the nation’s economic growth. Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning who […]

By Robert Romano White House Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney has said the White House has not decided its plan for an upcoming vote extending the debt ceiling. “We haven’t settled on a final way to address the debt ceiling any more than the […]