06.30.2017

Missed it by that much: CBO’s Obamacare enrollee lie

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. […]

06.29.2017

Trump gets the U.S. a better deal on sugar with Mexico

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 […]

06.29.2017

Ad tax would be bad business

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 […]

06.28.2017

Senate GOP dusts off the continuous coverage penalty at behest of insurance companies

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 […]

06.26.2017

Patrick Pizzella is the right man for the job at Department of Labor number two spot

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 […]

06.19.2017

Trump should use the 100-year-old debt ceiling — to fix the debt ceiling

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 […]

06.15.2017

Fed hikes interest rate to as high as 1.25 percent—cites ‘ongoing strength of the economy’

By Natalia Castro The Federal Reserve just raised interest rates, which is fairly common action to stop the economy from overheating, but this is leaving Americans, particularly young Americans, wondering where the fire is? Considering sluggish economic growth has been pervasive through all elements of […]

06.13.2017

The higher education bubble is destroying U.S. labor markets

By Robert Romano In 2014, only 36 percent of jobs available — 54.8 million — required some college, a postsecondary nondegree award, a Bachelor’s degree or more at the entry level according to data compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics . Yet at the same time, today, 61 percent of the civilian population aged 25 and over has some college, a Bachelor’s degree or more , accounting for 131.4 million people. That accounts for […]

06.09.2017

Hardly Walt’s Disney

By Printus LeBlanc What is going on with the Disney company? The iconic wholesome American icon known around the world as a family friendly company is currently involved in three lawsuits that do not scream family. Is the way they are handling business the way […]

06.08.2017

The Senate needs to get back to work on Obamacare

By Natalia Castro The repeal and replace of Obamacare was a pillar of the Republican campaign in 2016, and both President Donald Trump and the House of Representatives have kept this promise alive. With the American Health Care Act (AHCA), House Republicans compromised amongst themselves […]

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