The longer Congress pays states to remain closed, hurting working families, the longer this recession will continue. By Robert Romano Nevada, Hawaii, Maryland, Vermont, Connecticut, California, New Jersey, Virginia, Iowa, Rhode Island, Illinois, New York, Maine and Washington remain the states most impacted in jobs lost as […]
“Why would anyone want to hurry up and come back to work if they’re getting free money sitting around?” By Frank McCaffrey Americans for Limited Government Foundation is revisiting small business people we spoke with in 2020. We want to see what they’ve been up […]
By Rick Manning It is crazy, but the startling March 9 Washington Free Beacon headline screamed out with a dissonance akin to a teacher running her fingernails down a blackboard to get her students attention, “ Microsoft Responds to China Cyber Attack by Expanding Business in China .” What the heck? Chinese Communist Party hackers breached the Microsoft […]
By Robert Romano Among the plethora of spending in the $1.9 trillion Covid spending bill passed by the U.S. House and Senate — which already includes $571 billion of the spending on state government bailouts including schools, Medicaid and transportation funds, $242 billion in expanded unemployment benefits, $415 billion for $1,400 checks […]
It seems the Covid spending bill may be targeted more at a Democrat vote-getting campaign for the 2024 election, than in actually targeting areas of need. By Catherine Mortensen California’s wealthy elite have been doing very well during the coronavirus pandemic, despite economic shutdowns that have devastated […]
The latest unemployment figures from states shows that eleven states engaged in the most draconian economic shutdowns all have significantly higher unemployment rates than the national average. By Rick Manning The last month of President Trump’s economic miracle was February 2020 before Covid struck the U.S. economy.The […]
“If we’ve learned anything from this pandemic it is this, the federal government has been empowered to just send people checks without any recourse. This is the real danger of the helicopter money mentality that the 2020 Covid-19 crisis has produced.” By Catherine Mortensen During the 2020 […]
Is the stimulus starting to see a cycle of diminishing returns? By Robert Romano The U.S. House of Representatives has completed its work on its version of the $1.9 trillion Covid spending bill, passing on a party line 219 to 212 vote on Feb. 27 , and going back to the Senate for consideration. The legislation would provide $1,400 checks to […]
By Robert Romano Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is offering an alternative budget plan that would cut three cents out of every federal dollar spent every year for five years, bringing the budget into balance by 2026, at a time when the U.S. added more than $4.4 trillion to the national debt in 2020 […]
