fbpx
01.29.2021

Covid recession takes U.S. economy down 3.5 percent in 2020—worse than the Great Recession of 2008-2009

By Robert Romano The U.S. had its first peak at overall Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for 2020, and it’s not pretty, dropping 3.5 percent on an inflation-adjusted basis for the entire year following massive losses from the Covid pandemic-led lockdowns. That is even worse than 2008 and […]

01.29.2021

Justice system that caters to elites is in desperate need of reform

Three changes that could restore justice to the ‘forgotten man’ By Richard McCarty Our legal system has failed; it works well for the elite, but it is difficult or impossible for millions of Americans to obtain justice. The high cost of law school educations prevents many people […]

01.28.2021

Biden housing memorandum eyes renewing federal zoning rule Congress already banned

By Robert Romano On Jan. 26, President Joe Biden continued his flurry of executive orders and other actions with a new memorandum, “Redressing Our Nation’s and the Federal Government’s History of Discriminatory Housing Practices and Policies,” which seeks to undo a series of steps taken by former President Donald Trump and former Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson. The […]

01.26.2021

Bernie’s Big Government taxes crushing the business that made his popular mittens

By Catherine Mortensen Behind the hilarious Bernie Sanders memes from the Biden Inauguration, is the story of a small business taxed to death by Sanders’ socialist tax policies. According to Slate magazine , people on social media are obsessed with the mittens Bernie is wearing and have been wondering where they […]

01.25.2021

Cartoon: Sinking Fast

01.22.2021

Biden’s school ‘reopening’ plan calls for first renovating 130,000 schools with new ventilation, threatening U.S. economic recovery

By Robert Romano One of the many executive orders that has come in President Joe Biden’s first few days in office addresses the Covid pandemic and the thorny issue of reopening schools. Entitled, “Executive Order on Supporting the Reopening and Continuing Operation of Schools and Early Childhood Education Providers,” the order issued Jan. 21 may instead create a number of new regulatory barriers […]

01.12.2021

Will Biden kill the Trump economic recovery?

Working families going to the sidelines to stay indefinitely remains the greatest challenge the country will face economically this coming year — and all the years to come. By Robert Romano The U.S. economy is poised to continue a massive recovery that began after labor markets bottomed […]

01.05.2021

President Trump showed America how to get tough with China

By Robert Romano The House and the Senate will convene in a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6 to hear any and all objections to the Dec. 14 outcome of the Electoral College in favor of Joe Biden, with challenges expected in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, […]

01.05.2021

Why waste could be worse in second Covid relief package

Without reforms new stimulus law could be a massive taxpayer ripoff  By Catherine Mortensen The new $900 billion Covid relief law contains no reforms designed to protect against the massive fraud, waste, and abuse that plagued the first stimulus bill. According to the free market advocates at […]

12.28.2020

New Covid checks could lead to end of work as we know it

The danger of the Covid relief checks is that they will become permanent — a perverse incentive not to work. By Robert Romano The House has voted to expand direct payments to the American people from $600 per adult and $600 per child in the year-end Covid […]

Copyright © 2008-2025 Americans for Limited Government