High Speed Rail or High Speed Ripoff?
Dec 4, 2013 Comments Off adminTax-and-spend politicians just love playing with their trains. Unfortunately, the one they want in California won’t fit on a table in your basement — and it’s going to cost you a whole heck of a lot more. They’re now in the process of building a 220 mile-per-hour rail line, eventually stretching over 800 miles, from …
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High Taxes and Prosperity Don’t Mix
Nov 27, 2013 Comments Off adminAs our federal debt continues to run higher, Harry Reid and Barack Obama are always looking for some new way to raise taxes and fund virtually endless government programs. But we don’t have a taxing problem. We have a spending problem. The fact is, despite what tax-and-spend politicians claim, private investors can spend their money …
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Watch Out for Utility Bills
Nov 27, 2013 Comments Off adminBarack Obama admitted as a candidate in 2008 pitching his so-called “green energy” plan, “Under my plan…electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.” And for him and his Hollywood elite supporters, a rise in electricity rates are just a drop in the bucket. But for millions of Americans a ten, twenty, or thirty percent increase in electricity …
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Head Start— A Giant Boondoggle?
Nov 27, 2013 Comments Off adminBarack Obama’s presidency began by promising to: “Use only one test when deciding what ideas to support with your precious tax dollars: It’s not whether an idea is liberal or conservative, but whether it works.” Yet even programs that have been proven to be useless continue to be funded. Just look at the so-called Head …
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I’m Usually a Glass Half Full Kinda Guy
Nov 27, 2013 Comments Off adminPresident Obama and his big-spending pals in Washington have been piling on to our national debt with every passing day. And they’re sparing no expense when it comes to the massive federal-government boondoggle known as ObamaCare. Obama’s signature healthcare law is already costing the American Taxpayer BILLIONS of dollars. Businesses across the country have been …
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Can Anyone Count to Six?
Nov 20, 2013 Comments Off adminOne — two — three — four — five — six. That’s the number of people who signed up for ObamaCare the first day. But Liar-in-Chief Barack Obama claimed they could not get an “accurate count” of the number of people who signed up. Are we to believe that no one in the White House …
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Liar in Chief
Nov 13, 2013 Comments Off admin“If you like your health care plan, you can keep it.” But fast forward three years to when ObamaCare is actually being implemented. More than 500,000 people have already gotten cancellation notices in just three states: California, Florida, and Pennsylvania. CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield is cancelling another 76,000 in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, DC …
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The Waste Marches On
Nov 13, 2013 Comments Off adminIf anyone has any doubt that big-government spending can and must be cut, one only has to look at the billions stolen in outright fraud. That’s why your support for the National League of Taxpayers’ efforts to fight against high taxes and out-of-control spending is so important. Recent investigations by the Government Accountability Office, the …
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Bailout Fever
Nov 6, 2013 Comments Off adminAs I write this post, at least 61 major cities have promised their public-sector retirees a total of at least $126.2 billion in benefits. Only two of those cities, Denver and Los Angeles, have the cash to even cover half of their benefit obligations. And thanks to the $18 billion hole Detroit’s politicians have …
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Trillion Dollar Interest Payments?
Oct 30, 2013 Comments Off adminSixteen trillion. It’s a ticking time bomb. As I write you today, that’s how much taxpayers are on the line for to feed the tax-and-spend addiction of lawmakers in Washington. But how would you feel if I told you that all we’re doing is whittling away at the interest that our national debt is accruing? …
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