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More Legal Shenanigans from the Biden Administration’s Department of Education

Among the foremost threats to individual freedom in America is the abusive and oftentimes lawless behavior of federal administrative agencies, whose vast armies of overpaid bureaucrats remain unaccountable for their excesses.

Among the most familiar examples of that bureaucratic abuse is the Department of Education (DOE).  Recall, for instance, the United States Supreme Court’s humiliating rebuke last year of the Biden DOE’s effort to shift hundreds of billions of dollars of student debt from the people who actually owed them onto the backs of American taxpayers.

Even now, despite that rebuke, the Biden DOE launched an alternative scheme last month in an end-around effort to achieve that same result.

Well, the Biden DOE is now attempting to shift tens of millions of dollars of…[more]

March 19, 2024 • 08:35 AM

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91 Dems Want Another Chunk of Your Paycheck

Democrats see your paycheck as fair game for their endless social improvement projects. Every Democrat vying for the White House backs federal legislation that would guarantee workers nearly three months of paid family medical leave every year to care for newborns and the sick. Sounds wonderful. Who doesn't want to work nine months a year and get paid…

92 Trump Economy Leaving Obama’s in the Dust

Try to reconcile this contradiction.  On the one hand, Barack Obama and his apologists claim that he deserves credit for halting an economic recession that actually bottomed out in the fall of 2008 before he was elected, and officially terminated less than five months into his tenure – long before any of his policies had taken effect, or…

93 Liberals Were Very Wrong About Tax Cuts. Again.

For those of you who survived the Great GOP Tax Cut Massacre, things are finally looking up. The unemployment rate fell to 3.6 percent last month, the lowest level since 1969. We've now experienced over a full year of unemployment at 4 percent or lower. The economy beat projections, adding another 263,000 jobs in April. Wages are rising. It was Larry…

94 Democrats' Plan to Destroy the Jobs Boom

If you're looking for work, this is the best job market in 50 years. The economy is soaring. But Democrats running for president are pitching plans that will destroy millions of jobs, doubling the number of people out of work. Consider "Medicare for All." It could wipe out a staggering 2.5 million health insurance and health care jobs nationwide…

95 Trump Economy Accelerates, Leftists Hardest Hit

Remember how Barack Obama repeatedly rationalized the economic malaise that defined his presidency by scapegoating everything from the 2011 Japanese tsunami to ATMs?  This was Obama in 2011, when it was already clear that his economic policies were failing:  There are some structural issues with our economy, where a lot of businesses have…

96 Amid Good News, Can Democrats Talk Down the Economy?

"The recession talk in late 2018 got way, way out of hand," New York Times economic reporter Neil Irwin tweeted a few days ago. Indeed it did. Irwin's tweet came shortly after the government released figures showing the economy grew at a 3.2% annual rate in the first three months of this year. The number was good by anyone's measure, significantly…

97 Dems' Tax Hypocrisy

House Democrats are demanding the Internal Revenue Service hand over President Donald Trump's tax returns. Not that Speaker Nancy Pelosi or other Dems making the demand are willing to disclose their tax filings. Fat chance. Not in the House of Hypocrites. White House staff and the president's lawyers are making it crystal clear that Trump's returns…

98 Economy: Trump Achieves What Obama Apologists Said Was Impossible

If Trump thinks he can get more than 3% economic growth, he’s dreaming.   —Los Angeles Times economic columnist Michael Hiltzik, May 19, 2017  Expect a lot of boasting, but 3% growth is still nonsense.  —New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, January 28, 2018  Apparently, the budget forecasts that U.S. economic…

99 High-Tax Governors Scapegoat Tax Reform for the “Diabolical” Consequences of Their Own Policy Choices

Should low-tax states like Tennessee, Texas or Florida subsidize high-tax states like New York, California or Illinois?  Indeed, do low-tax states even owe a moral duty to support their high-tax brethren states?  New York Governor Andrew Cuomo somehow thinks so.   He considers it “diabolical” and an “injustice…

100 Low Taxes Are the Best Sweetheart Deal

Ever since Amazon's breakup with New York on Valentine's Day, dejected Mayor Bill De Blasio is complaining that corporations shouldn't be able to play off one local government against others for tax breaks. "I don't think it's really fair to pit city against city and state against state," De Blasio whined like a jilted suitor. Grow up, Mr…

101 Dems Deny Economic Boom

Democrats, now the majority in the House of Representatives, are trying to turn that body into the House of Resistance. They vowed to use the State of the Union to voice their claims that the nation is in bad shape, rigged to benefit only the rich. But facts are stubborn things. Fact No. 1: An amazing 304,000 jobs were created in January, according…

102 2019 Index of Economic Freedom: America Finally Regains Its Footing

After a decade of decline, the United States is finally enjoying a renaissance in economic freedom.  So says the just-released 2019 edition of the Heritage Foundation’s annual Index of Economic Freedom, which for twenty-five years has ranked the world’s nations in terms of property rights, rule of law, taxes, government spending,…

103 Dems' Dangerous Ideas on Fighting Inequality

Leftist Democrats eyeing the White House in 2020 are plotting new ways to confiscate Americans' hard-earned money and give it away. Claiming economic inequality is a national crisis, they want to take money from those they say have too much. Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is pushing a wealth tax. Never mind that it's unprecedented and unconstitutional…

104 Lessons from History: Lower Tax Rates Boosted Revenues and Increased Share Paid by Wealthier Americans

Some folks are born silver spoon in hand, Lord, don’t they help themselves, y’all? But when the tax man comes to the door, Lord, the house looks like a rummage sale, yeah… —Creedence Clearwater Revival, “Fortunate Son” Although more ‘60s-vintage hyperbole than economics textbook prose, CCR’s lyric…

105 Dems' 'Tax the Rich' Hoax

The U.S. Department of Labor jobs report, released Friday, shows eye-popping gains, concluding a year that has been great for workers. Hourly wages shot up after 10 years of stagnation and real household income topped its highest level in history. Basically anyone who wants a job can get one. "If we're not right at full employment, we're very…

106 CFIF to HHS: Don't Blow It With Drug Price Controls

A relatively stable and sound economy has become the new normal, something too many of us are starting to take for granted. But just two years ago, things weren't quite so rosy.  As one trip back down Memory Lane, note this Wall Street Journal observation in a September 13, 2016 article entitled "CEOs See Sluggish Growth":  The…

107 Will Blue States Go for Trumponomics?

In a contest too close to call, Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Stefanowski is running to slash Connecticut taxes and bring Trumponomics to the state. The nation is watching to see whether a fiscal reformer can sell President Donald Trump's tax-cutting approach to voters who disdain Trump. Critics call Stefanowski's proposal to phase out the…

108 Greatest Economy Ever? Signs Increasingly Suggest "Yes"

This month, for the first time since 2008, the United States regained its spot atop the World Economic Forum's annual ranking of the world's most competitive economies.  It's about time.  For eight long years during the Obama Administration, the United States endured the most sluggish cyclical economic "recovery" in recorded history…

109 NAFTA Updated: A Win for U.S. Intellectual Property

This month, as expected, Canada agreed to join the trade accord reached earlier between the United States and Mexico, updating the 24-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).  Although the fine print remains to be parsed as Congress moves toward ratification, one important fact is already clear:  the renegotiated accord constitutes…

110 Dems' Socialist Ideas Will Tank Economy

The most striking difference between Democrats and Republicans is not their views on #MeToo, affirmative action or the Supreme Court. It's how they view the economy. Republicans deplore socialism. But more than half of Democrats view socialism favorably, according to a recent Gallup poll. The Democratic Party's left flank is turning the midterm elections…

111 U.S. Economy Leaving Europe and the Rest of the World Behind

It wasn't supposed to happen this way.  The 2016 election of Donald Trump was supposed to usher in an era of economic mismanagement and market decline, while our European exemplars flourished under their more enlightened socialized model.  The late satirist H.L. Mencken once observed, "Democracy is the theory that the common people…

112 U.S. Reclaims Top Economic Competitiveness Ranking Under Trump

"U.S. Has More Jobs Than Jobless." Savor for a moment that astonishing front-page headline this week from The Wall Street Journal.  Well into the second year of the Trump economy, America literally has more jobs than the number of people in the labor force to possibly fill them:    For the first time since such record…

113 Trump's Budget: $984 Billion Deficit Next Year

When you read the budget message President Donald Trump sent Congress earlier this year, you soon come across a concession that Washington insiders have been making for years — just before they vote for bills they know will massively increase the federal debt. "The current fiscal path is unsustainable," Trump said, "and future…

114 Democrats' Universal Job Plan Would Be a Socialist Disaster

Sen. Bernie Sanders is set to announce a plan that guarantees every American "who wants or needs one" a lifetime government job paying at least $15 an hour, with health insurance and other perks. This new progressive workforce will then, according to the Washington Post, build glorious "projects throughout the United States aimed at…

115 Will the Supreme Court OK the States' Latest Tax Grab?

Here we go again. State politicians want to take more of your money. This time, their scheme is to tax everything you buy on the internet. On Tuesday, the money-grabbing states made their case to the United States Supreme Court. If the Justices go along with it, you'll be paying more when you make a purchase on eBay, Etsy, Amazon or another platform…

116 The Rich Don't Pay Their "Fair Share" of Taxes ... They Pay Too Much

Do wealthier Americans pay their fair share in taxes?  The straightforward answer is "no," although for a very different reason than most people probably assume.  The reality is that the rich pay more than their fair share by any reasonable definition of "fair."  And here's a new kicker:  Following comprehensive…

117 Larry Kudlow Is a Big Upgrade for the White House

President Donald Trump will reportedly name Larry Kudlow head of the White House National Economic Council. For fans of pro-growth policies — deregulation, low taxation and open trade — it's great news for obvious reasons. Kudlow has been a decadeslong champion of these ideas, and those with coherent philosophies tend to offer…

118 Economic Freedom Index: U.S. Stabilizes In Trump's First Year

For eight long years, the United States suffered continual decline in economic freedom under Barack Obama.  Anyone seeking causation for the unprecedented economic malaise under his watch need look no further than that measure.  At the beginning of 2009, when Obama entered the White House, the U.S. ranked sixth in the Heritage Foundation…

119 Taxaholic Governors Try to Dodge Federal Tax Law

The governors of New York, Connecticut and New Jersey joined forces last week to announce they're suing Uncle Sam. They're trying to torpedo the new $10,000 ceiling on how much state and local taxes their residents can deduct when paying federal income taxes. The three governors sounded like buffoons, making far-fetched claims that the $10,000 cap…

120 Shock: New York Times Begins 2018 Admitting Trump Economic Bump

We experienced eight years of leftist economic policies under Barack Obama, and now a full year of deregulatory, low-tax economics under Donald Trump.  So based upon the accumulated evidence, which one works?  When even The New York Times can no longer deny the inescapable Trump Bump, you know that debate is over.  On January 1, the…

 
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