When it comes to promoting their re-elections and rewarding special interests, lawmakers love few things more than raiding the treasury. Year after year, the watchdog group Citizens […]
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America’s tax cut era has outlasted its welcome
by Kathryn Anne Edwards For more than two decades, America has pursued a policy as costly as the New Deal of the 1930s or the Great Society […]
With apologies to drunken sailors
The Biden budget deficit this fiscal year probably will exceed $1.6 trillion. This from a president who has repeatedly tried to pass himself off as a fiscal […]
A taxing time: Outrageous government spending
Was it as bad for you as it was for me? Sending Washington money we earn, but Washington doesn’t, I mean? It’s not just being part of […]
Take seriously the threat of a fiscal breakdown
The latest projections from the Congressional Budget Office repeat a warning made many times before: The trajectory of U.S. government borrowing is unsustainable. Washington, fixated on this […]
The president and Congress need an intervention
When some people appear beyond help because of addiction or other circumstances they can’t control, family members have been known to stage an intervention. Congress and President […]
U.S. government revenues hit record highs
In his New York Times newsletter, business reporter Peter Coy in September argued that the only real solution for the nation’s rising debt crisis is “more tax […]
Rep. Mooney talks with The Dominion Post about impeachment, spending, dysfunction and more
MORGANTOWN – Rep. Alex Mooney talked with The Dominion Post in White Hall Monday during a visit to sites in Marion, Monongalia and Harrison counties. We talked […]
Congress didn’t solve the big issues
by Carl P. Leubsdorf The new House speaker, Mike Johnson, gave federal workers, U.S. troops and the American people a Thanksgiving and Christmas present: no government shutdown […]
Biden is failing as a steward of public money
When it comes to spending other people’s money, the Biden administration has only one setting: more, more, more. Lost amid recent world events and the $100 billion […]
