03.18.2021

Biden’s One-Two Punch on Taxes Will Destroy Free Markets and Any Hope of Economic Recovery

If Democrats are successful in hiking taxes on the “wealthy,” and the courts allow them to set state and international corporate tax rates, Biden and Congressional Democrats will have delivered a one-two-punch to our economy that we may never recover from. By Catherine Mortensen Democrats snuck a […]

03.17.2021

Will Biden’s FCC continue the U.S. race to 5G to compete with China?

By Robert Romano During the Trump administration, the deployment of 5G, or fifth generation broadband cellular technology, was rapidly expanded and modernized amid technological leaps that promise in the coming years to bring smart cities, driverless cars and trucks, factories run by robots and other wonders online […]

03.15.2021

Blue states with the worst lockdowns lost the most jobs per capita to Covid as Congress rewards restrictions

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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 […]

03.15.2021

Small business owner fears Biden’s Covid bailout could slow recovery

“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 […]

03.12.2021

Microsoft cyberattackers rewarded with big Microsoft investment

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 […]

03.10.2021

Democrats sneak in $88 billion multiemployer pension bailout into $1.9 trillion Covid spending bill

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 […]

03.08.2021

California Doesn’t Need a Federal Covid Bailout, Tax Revenues are Booming

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 […]

03.08.2021

It will take years to recover the 8 million jobs still lost to Covid and state lockdowns

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 […]

03.08.2021

The rest of the story – why the economy gained 379,000 jobs in February

By Rick Manning The U. S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics reported fantastic job gain numbers across the country of 379,000 jobs created in their February 2021 Establishment Survey. While the economy remains over 9.5 million jobs shy of pre-pandemic levels according to the establishment survey — and 8.5 million shy in the separate household survey — this growth is a positive […]

03.03.2021

A Universal Basic Income for Kids?

“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 […]

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