Elections have consequences and in Virginia those consequences will cut deeply into your pocket book. There are at least 16 bills approved by the 2020 General Assembly which create new taxes or raise existing taxes. If anybody would or could…
Leading Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has officially unveiled her “Medicare for All” plan. This program is based on fantasy financing. According to Warren, it will cost $52 trillion over ten years, but a middle-class tax increase…
.. all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.— Thomas Jefferson, “Declaration of Independence” What has to happen before the…
Depending on who you happen to listen to, some two-thirds, or three-fourths, or nine-tenths of the United States government is illegal — meaning that what it is and what it does it falls outside the limits prescribed by Article I,…
On Monday night, the GOP tax bill took another step toward President Trump’s desk when Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), named nine members to the conference committee, including Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas). The Senate is…
The federal government has become an elite island of job-for-life protections and highly paid employment, standing far above the average American who must compete in this economy. There are currently 2.1 million federal employees in hundreds of agencies across the…
The left has been pushing for several years for Obama to use an executive order to institute “economic patriotism.” Sounds innocent enough, right? The economy sucks and patriotism is good! But then again, maybe it isn’t good, at least not when it…
Income Tax Increase – $350 Billion: Clinton has proposed a $350 billion income tax hike in the form of a 28 percent cap on itemized deductions. Business Tax Increase — $275 Billion: Clinton has called for a tax hike of at…
“The Progressive Income Tax” is one of those economic terms that gets bandied about, but few actually know what it means or how it works. This tale of three similar brothers with three different incomes (but one shared expense) helps…
We currently pay an average gas tax of around .50 cents per gallon. Of this, 18.4 cents is sent to D.C. to be deposited in a trust fund. Funny, every time someone in the government uses the term trust fund…
In the 2015 State of the Union, Obama came across as the newest member of Occupy Wall Street but his record shows him to be a corporate liberal, and a closer look at his latest proposals proves it. In exchange…
Governments and their defenders insist that taking taxes from citizens in perfectly okay. As Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes alleged, it is “the price we pay for civilization.” Like saying handing over your money to a hood amounts to paying for…
A great scientist named Roger Revelle had Al Gore in his class at Harvard and the Global Warming campaign was born. Revelle tried to calm things down years later, but Gore said Revelle was Senile and refused to debate. John…
This president and his comrades long ago forfeited the right to govern because they have frequently violated the trust of the American people–and the law. If polling data is accurate, the clear majority of people have no confidence in this…
