Morning Bell: Top 3 Small Business Struggles
Small businesses are getting a lot of focus from politicians, because they are a key engine of job creation—which has stalled in the U.S. economy…. Read More
CBO Warns: President Obama and Congress Risk Triggering Another Recession
About 1.6 million American jobs hang in the balance. That is the clear implication of analysis contained in the annual budget update by the Congressional… Read More
Obamacare’s 18 New Tax Hikes
Not only did the President and his partners in Congress take $716 billion out of Medicare to pay for Obamacare, but they also raise taxes… Read More
Government Will Take Almost Half Your Paycheck in 2013
How high is the marginal tax rate on each additional dollar the average American earns? In other words, if you got a raise of one… Read More
Morning Bell: Has Any Administration Policy NOT Killed Jobs Lately?
Congress has headed off for its long vacation-and-campaign season, fleeing Washington as the unemployment rate rises. According to the Labor Department’s July jobs report, the… Read More
Another Temporary Budget Deal: Don’t Blame a “Broken” Process
The stopgap spending agreement reached by House and Senate leaders may be the only way Congress will escape a post-election “lame duck” showdown over funding… Read More
Taxmageddon and Obamacare: What Would Milton Friedman Say?
“I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible,” economist Milton Friedman once said…. Read More
How Much Will Taxmageddon Cost Your Family?
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Sluggish Economic Growth: More Reason to Renounce Tax Hikes
On the afternoon of another discouraging assessment of the nation’s economic growth, the Obama Administration late Friday quietly released its mid-year update of the budget…. Read More
Budget Battle Made Simple
Understanding what Washington is up to is as simple as one-two-three: 1. Unacceptable Choices Under President Obama’s leadership, Americans have been presented two unacceptable choices…. Read More
Morning Bell: Senate Votes to Raise Taxes on Small Businesses
Yesterday, the Senate narrowly voted (51-48) to raise taxes on 1.2 million small businesses, which will likely kill more than 700,000 jobs at a time… Read More
Who Wants Washington to Prevent Taxmageddon?
Taxmageddon, a one-year $494 billion tax increase, is coming on January 1, 2013. Reports of the economic destruction Taxmageddon would create are growing by the… Read More
VIDEO: House Conservatives Answer Your Questions
House conservatives gather this morning to take your questions about taxes, sequestration and a range of other issues facing Congress in the coming weeks and… Read More
Latinos Favor Tax Cuts for All, Including the Wealthy
Are Hispanics—the fastest growing demographic in the country— on their way to becoming a reliably voting liberal bloc? Not so fast, especially considering a recent… Read More
Reagan 32 Years Ago Today: Tax Cuts, Defense and Energy Policy (VIDEO)
Many campaign slogans and speeches read more like museum pieces than modern calls to action. But Ronald Reagan’s 1980 acceptance speech to the Republican National… Read More
New Poll: Majority of Americans Want to Stop Tax Hikes for All Incomes
A new poll shows the majority of Americans—including those on the low end of the income spectrum—are against hiking taxes for those making more than… Read More
Morning Bell: Obama Tells Entrepreneurs “You Didn’t Build” Your Business
That sound you hear is silence—as millions of small business owners and entrepreneurs were left speechless this weekend from President Obama’s latest insult. The slap… Read More
Obama’s Small-Business Tax Could Average $25,000
President Obama has made raising taxes on “the rich” a central plank of his re-election campaign. Yet even many Democrats are questioning the wisdom of… Read More
Online Chat on the Obama Tax Hikes – LIVE NOW
Commonly known as “Taxmageddon,” taxes are set to go up on January 1 for everyone if Congress fails to act. Click here to join us… Read More
Fitch Ratings Warns: Congress Must Address the Fiscal Crisis
Proof of President Reagan’s wisdom keeps cropping up. A fresh example: The U.S. has retained its AAA credit status with Fitch Ratings, mainly due to… Read More
What About the Payroll Tax, Mr. President?
Finally, President Obama has awakened to at least a part of Taxmageddon as it barrels down on American taxpayers next year and drags down job… Read More
Morning Bell: Obama’s Tax Hike on Job Creators
“The last thing you want to do is to raise taxes in the middle of a recession, because that would just suck up—take more demand… Read More
Obama Finally Enters the Taxmageddon Debate—With a Tax Increase
With more than half the year gone, President Obama today finally broke his silence on Taxmageddon and thus brought a smoldering debate front and center…. Read More
Forecast: Taxmageddon Would Cause Another Recession
Speaking this week at the Western Economic Association International, economic forecaster Allen Sinai talked about the damage the “fiscal cliff” of 2013 will cause the… Read More
Taxmageddon Will Decimate the Finances of Low-Income Americans
“Taxmageddon,” also called a “massive fiscal cliff” by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, refers to the assortment of expiring tax relief combined with new Obamacare… Read More
To Stop Taxmageddon, Repeal Obamacare
Unless President Obama and Congress take action soon, Taxmageddon will hit on January 1, 2013. Taxmageddon is a $494 billion tax increase for 2013 alone…. Read More
Taxmageddon to Hit These States and Congressional Districts Especially Hard
Taxmageddon is getting ready to suffocate the U.S. economy under crushing tax increases on January 1, 2013. These tax hikes include the expiration of the… Read More
Morning Bell: The Grecian Formula for Economic Decline
The President and his team have been blaming “European headwinds” for some of the U.S. economy’s woes. But the truth is that the policies pursued… Read More
Taxmageddon Veto? Obama’s Recent History Suggests Otherwise
Former President Clinton caused quite the commotion earlier this week when he said on CNBC: What I think we need to do it find some… Read More
Morning Bell: Dysfunctional Washington
Within one year of being elected, Governor Scott Walker (R) reformed the state’s public sector pension system, eliminated a $3.6 billion budget deficit without raising… Read More
