Heritage Responds to Obama’s Debt Reduction and Tax Proposal
Heritage’s experts watched President Barack Obama’s debt reduction and tax increase proposal. Here are their immediate reactions: Obama’s Plan Is More Bad News for Defense… Read More
VIDEO: Sen. Mike Lee Says Obama’s Jobs Plan Will Make Problem Worse
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) came to Washington as the a tea-party conservative with the goal of fixing the economy, addressing the debt crisis and curbing… Read More
Federally Funded Boulders for Nevada
Yesterday, I wrote about the House-passed bill H.R. 2887, which would reauthorize expiring aviation and surface transportation programs for a few months. Senator Tom Coburn… Read More
Chart of the Week: How Social Security Is Contributing to the Spending Crisis
Last week’s presidential debate at the Reagan Library elevated Social Security as a national issue that could reshape the 2012 campaign. Candidates spent the week… Read More
More ‘Stimulus’ Spending on Failed Public Safety Grant Programs
President Obama’s plan for turning America around is big on new spending, with insincere promises of budget cuts to come later. In particular, the President… Read More
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Depends on What You Mean by ‘Meeting’: Super Committee Expected to Be Super Secret
The Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (also known as the “super committee”) met for the first time today. This bipartisan, bicameral committee was created… Read More
Morning Bell: Big Government Rising?
How does a trillion dollars in more federal government spending sound to you? For most Americans, the idea of growing government at a time when… Read More
Big Labor Makes Big Spending Demands on President Obama
The Big Labor full-court press is in full swing ahead of President Barack Obama’s speech next week in which he will roll-out a new jobs plan…. Read More
Social Security’s Disability Program Faces an Empty Trust Fund
With continuing unemployment problems driving more and more Americans to seek Social Security disability benefits, that program’s already weakened trust fund faces a bleak future…. Read More
Heritage Radio: Member Questions, U.S. Credit Downgrade, Poverty
This week’s Heritage Libertad Radio program – half in English, half in Spanish – covered the recent S & P downgrade, including a discussion with… Read More
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Conservatives to Super-Committee: Think Big, Really Big
Congressional leaders led a national debate in July 2011 about the problems of federal overspending and overborrowing. Unfortunately, at the end of the debate, Congress… Read More
Obama’s Upside Down Press Conference
President Barack Obama made two fundamental mistakes today in his press conference which was intended to calm the markets. First, he did not lead off with… Read More
Education Spending? Sounds Good — Until the Tax Man Cometh
According to a new poll by the education research journal Education Next, 65 percent of the American public wants education spending to increase. That figure,… Read More
Debt Ceiling Defense Cuts Will Happen
There is considerable misunderstanding about what the new debt ceiling law does to the area of defense. Many people are describing the required defense cuts… Read More
Heritage Radio – Sunday, August 7, 2011
Tune in here at noon ET on Sunday to listen to Heritage Radio. Topics will include the new job numbers, the economy, and a discussion with… Read More
Scribecast: Sen. Mike Lee on the Need for a Balanced Budget Amendment
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) is a man on a mission. The freshman senator came to Washington after defeating an incumbent Republican, angering some in the… Read More
Heritage Libertad Radio: Debt Negotiations, La Raza and School Choice
Be sure to tune in to Heritage Libertad Radio this Sunday at Noon ET, here. The first 30 minutes is in Spanish, covering President Obama’s… Read More
Morning Bell: Struggle to Solve Debt Limit Crisis Goes On
Last night, the House of Representatives was set to vote on House Speaker John Boehner’s (R–OH) plan to raise the debt ceiling, as the projected… Read More
The Truth about Obama’s Budget Deficits, in Pictures
Through the fog of the debt limit negotiations, President Obama has attempted to shift the blame for America’s deficit crisis to politicians at large, claiming… Read More
Harry Reid and the Chamber of No
Washington is boiling, and it’s not just the temperature. Dueling debt ceiling proposals, presidential veto threats, and heated rhetoric between and among parties have political… Read More
Top 10 Reads: July 26, 2011
Catching you up on clips, commentary and news of the day. Sign up for the daily email update from Scribe. What really is poverty? – Ed… Read More
Morning Bell: America Needs a Better Solution
Americans tuning in last night to watch President Barack Obama’s primetime address from the East Room of the White House might have thought they stumbled… Read More
Stop Job-Killing Obama Tax Hikes and Cut Government Spending, Now
It’s hard to understand why President Obama took to the airwaves tonight at prime time. He still has no plan for dealing with government overspending… Read More
Conservatives Beware: The Boehner Plan Leads to Tax Increases
Conservatives have a clear objective: Debt limit legislation should drive down federal spending on the way to a balanced budget, while preserving the ability to… Read More
Lessons for Today from Reagan’s 1982 Deficit Reduction Compromise
Want some perspective on the debt ceiling negotiations and calls for tax increases in exchange for spending cuts? You might want to consider a cautionary… Read More
President Obama, Paul Krugman Botch History
Proponents of government spending are fond of citing 1937 as an example of when government implemented sharp austerity, and the economy derailed. This argument is dead wrong. On Thursday,… Read More
Abdication: Senate Votes to Do Nothing Unless It Can Hike Taxes for the President
Now that the Senate has voted to do nothing to address the overspending crisis, conservatives must keep the liberals’ feet to the fire and not… Read More
Another Obamacare ‘Glitch’ Will Add Billions to the Deficit
A new report from Cornell economist Richard Burkhauser and his colleagues has once again called into question the claims of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)… Read More
What’s Wrong with the Gang of Six Plan?
Desperate for a “balanced” approach to resolving the debt ceiling impasse, President Obama glommed on to the Gang of Six’s plan before the ink was… Read More
‘Gang of Six’ Plan Could Gut Defense
This week, Representative Buck McKeon (R–CA), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, released a memorandum to Republicans on the committee. He appropriately criticized the… Read More
