Lunch With Heritage Online Chat – Cutting the Budget
Spending is out of control. We are under a tremendous debt and it is getting worse. Is there anything that can be cut? We are… Read More
Spending is out of control. We are under a tremendous debt and it is getting worse. Is there anything that can be cut? We are… Read More
You’d think that billions of dollars in government spending would be hard to hide, especially from the Members of Congress who voted for it. Think… Read More
Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) has offered a Sense of the Senate Amendment to the Patent Reform Act of 2011 (S.23) testing the waters on the… Read More
House Republicans are attempting to live up to their pledge to cut $100 billion from the federal government’s current fiscal year 2011 budget. One of… Read More
While it’s being reported that every state (except Florida) had snow on the ground this week, 46 states are digging out of another kind of… Read More
The 111th Congress is officially over, and according to Gallup, it’s also officially the worst Congress in the history of polling. Yet despite its 13%… Read More
Republicans and Democrats can always agree on spending more money. Their default position is usually not to cover costs. But if they must, there’s one… Read More
Four years after Democrats campaigned on the promise of using pay-as-you-go budgeting, their record is dismal. Since gaining control of Congress in 2007, they’ve gamed,… Read More
Funding for public education amid budget cuts and a tight economy is creating a political pressure cooker in New Jersey, as Gov. Chris Christie (R)… Read More
There have been several press accounts lately outlining Democratic plans to hold off on taking difficult votes before November, and then to have a robust… Read More
This week attention has been focused on President Obama’s pick of Jacob Lew to replace outgoing Peter Orszag as Director of the Office of Management and… Read More
Last night the House passed a “budget enforcement resolution” setting discretionary spending levels for fiscal year 2011 at $1.12 trillion. This is approximately $7 billion… Read More
With a looming state budget deficit of nearly $13 million, many Illinois residents are wondering if their state has its priorities in order. Last night,… Read More
On Saturday, June 26, America Speaks will host a national town hall meeting in which any and all Americans will be able to voice their… Read More
Over the past weekend Steny Hoyer (D-MD), the House Majority Leader, gave one of the most expansive and surprising speeches of the year. State-of-the-Unionesque in… Read More
More than two years ago, then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton launched a campaign ad that took direct aim at Senator Barack Obama’s inexperience. It painted the… Read More
Runaway government spending has been a vocal concern of the burgeoning Tea Party movement since its inception. But many average voters don’t know a lot… Read More
Last week, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Tom Price (R-GA) introduced the Republican Study Committee (RSC) FY2011 budget. This is a welcome fiscal blueprint that… Read More
Love him or hate him, you’ve got to admit that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is not afraid to take a stand, speak his mind,… Read More
The president’s debt commission had its first meeting this week, and all of the talk was of getting serious about putting our fiscal house in… Read More
Economic realities are slapping states in the face as they come to terms with the fact that they can’t afford costly government programs amid declining… Read More
The federal budget is on an unsustainable course with red ink as far as the eye can see, so it is especially important for Americans to understand spending, taxes, and debt.
The Heritage Foundation’s Budget Chart Book is a user-friendly way to learn about the federal budget in pictures.
Raising taxes does not mean more overall revenue, recently seen in Montgomery County, Maryland, which has had a particularly bad fiscal year after a recent… Read More
One of the central arguments President Barack Obama has made on behalf of the health care plan he wants Congress to approve in coming weeks… Read More
President Obama says he wants to reduce America’s record trillion-dollar deficits. Too bad he hasn’t even correctly diagnosed their cause. During his State of the… Read More
Suddenly, bipartisanship is all the rage at the Obama White House. The president has announced that he will hold a bipartisan gathering on February 25 at… Read More
$1,100 for Hawaiian party props and luaus? $78,066 to promote quail? $6,500 for a 4,000-gallon live bass fish tank? $10,000 for a Batman party? $353,165 to fund car racing?
Congratulations, Illinoisans, you’re funding all this and more with your hard-earned taxpayer dollars, courtesy of your state government in Springfield.
Health CareNews
It seems the President’s spending habits have finally caught up with him, threatening to kill a government overhaul of health care. Though President Obama and… Read More
Yesterday’s Rasmussen poll reveals what anyone who has been watching the news for the past year already knows — Americans are angry. They are angry… Read More
Increasing spending on the State Department and international affairs while freezing discretionary domestic spending is probably not likely to endear President Obama further to constituencies… Read More
