By Bill Wilson – As America celebrates its 235th birthday this July, citizens are increasingly becoming aware of a new danger to the nation’s independence and sovereignty. It was identified as the number one threat to our national security by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen . It is the skyrocketing $14.3 trillion national debt. It is why in poll after poll a majority of Americans oppose raising the […]

By Rebekah Rast – “We’re not doing it because we want to do it, we’re doing it because if we don’t do it, then, again, I have to go out and borrow a trillion dollars over the next 10 years to finance those tax benefits […]

By Bill Wilson – On July 22, the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) issued its latest long-term projections on the growth of the national debt .  Astonishingly, as bad as the numbers issued by the CBO were, the debt crisis the nation faces is even worse than we are being told. The CBO analysis does not take into account the full $14.344 trillion national debt , nor does it reflect the $430 billion in gross interest payments we are paying every year . […]

By Bill Wilson – It is time for congressional Republican leaders, including House Speaker John Boehner, to play hardball on the debt ceiling. The only way House Republicans’ leverage on the debt ceiling will work is if they’re willing to not increase the debt ceiling. Because, if […]

By Robert Romano – The Obama Administration must be laboring under the delusion that the $14.3 trillion debt can somehow be paid for with tax increases. It cannot. And it would a foolish gambit to try. That is why House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Senate Minority […]

By Kevin Mooney – Have you or your business been on the receiving end of mistreatment from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)? If so, you could have a job in a new Herman Cain Administration . The presidential candidate said in an interview that he would like to […]

Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today urged the Senate to roll back a $100 billion expansion of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that was enacted in 2009. “It is simply outrageous that the world’s largest debtor, the United States, is bailing out creditors in Europe […]

By Kevin Mooney — Without additional transparency and tighter enforcement of proxy-voting requirements, publicly-held companies could be pressured into accommodating political agendas that are detached from the economic interests of retirement funds, according to a U.S. Department of Labor Inspector General audit released in March. […]

U.S. Senators Jim DeMint (R-SC), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), David Vitter (R-LA) and John Cornyn (R-TX) have offered an amendment to the Economic Development Revitalization Act end the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) ability to use $108 billion taxpayer dollars to bailout foreign countries. It’s about time […]

By Bill Wilson – What is the price of a bailout? Nominally, it’s how much a central bank or legislature has to print or spend, respectively, to save a failed institution from its own stupidity. For example, the Treasury has dedicated more than $150 billion to bailing […]