By: Daniel J. Pilla – nationalreview.com – January 27, 2023 In what is certainly the shortest bill regarding federal revenue that I’ve ever seen come out of the House of Representatives, the House voted to rescind much of the $80 billion funding granted to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. The bill, H.R. 9092, known...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – Feburary 15, 2023 The nearby table shows how far the Biden revenue and outlay numbers exceed the U.S. historical norm. Revenues last year hit 19.6% of GDP, far above the 17.4% average over the last 50 years, and a share of the economy reached only in 1944, 1945 and 2000. The overall federal...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – February 9, 2023 President Biden boasted during his State of the Union address about cutting the deficit by a record $1.7 trillion. His putative conversion into a born-again deficit cutter is belied by this week’s Congressional Budget Office federal budget report for January, which shows the deficit has doubled in the first four...

One of the best things about living in Texas is that we have a somewhat larger-than-average state sales tax but no state income tax.

Now if they can remember the lessons from 2011 and 2013 they should be in a good position to repeat that victory.

Progressives and most Democrats want the $31.4 trillion federal debt ceiling raised without any Republican preconditions. Better yet, in their view, it should be completely eliminated.

What you need is people, and freedom. If you let human beings be free, they will create more value for everyone.”

We recently looked at a new Federal Reserve Bank analysis that found that virtually all of the current labor shortage could be explained by a pandemic-induced increase in baby boomer retirements.

For years, the only supermarket serving the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwest South Dakota was run-down and a threat to public health. Inspectors from the Indian Health Service repeatedly cited its distant corporate owners for food safety violations, such as mixing rotten hamburger with fresh meat and repackaging it for sale. So leaders of […]

The Wall Street Journal quotes Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), “We’re not negotiating, we’re giving them [i.e., Republicans] nothing.