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It’s time for Congress and the president to recognize they have a spending addiction. It is time also for our government to recognize it is incapable of managing the nation’s finances. In Fiscal Year 2022, the United States collected $4.8 trillion in revenue and spent $6.32 trillion. Our federal government spent $1.47 trillion more in…
Congress talks and talks and huffs and puffs about over-regulation and reform of the Administrative State but never takes on the challenge. The courts, however, are again stepping into a legislative role to place limits on agency lawmaking as Congress continues down the path of irrelevancy. For decades, there have been concerns about the federal…
With the drama of electing Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House and approving new rules for the operation of the House, it is time to make Congress work. Thanks to the courage of twenty members of the Freedom Caucus (#Freedom 20), the overall effect of the new rules is the restoration of the most…
The Christmas season is a time of giving. Young children sit on Santa’s knee and provide him with a list of presents for under the tree. While it’s rewarding to see children happy with gifts, there is a dark downside to their expectations. Children grow up to be businessmen and women or social activists and…
Dear Republicans, the talking heads and the pollsters were very wrong about the definite red wave. Fortunately, you won control of the House of Representatives by a few seats. It will be a trying time since the loudest voices will seek retribution against Democrats through much-needed investigations. Undertake a few very well-structured investigations to expose…
As governments, businesses, financial institutions, environmental groups, and the radical left are consumed with anxiety over climate change, they seem to ignore every other issue confronting humanity. Or—is their use of climate change a false narrative to hide their real intent? The recent baffling actions by governments in Sri Lanka and the Netherlands point to…
The original IRS Form 1040 was only four pages long, including instructions, and contained few exemptions. The original intent of Congress was for anyone making money to pay some portion of it to the government. Tax rates were very low but anyone making a certain amount of money had to pay taxes. Beginning, however, in…
On November 29, 2021, I published an article on School Choice in the online publication Medium. Its focus was how the United States (local, state, and federal governments) spends more money on K-12 public school education than it would cost to give a full scholarship to every K-12 student in the nation—public and private. The…
It’s difficult to characterize the decision-making process of the Biden administration. Nothing makes sense— not Biden fumbling his words reading a teleprompter, the opening of our southern border for all to enter without proof of identity or health status, there is no inflation, the wacky surrender of Afghanistan, constantly changing mask mandates, propaganda telling us…
Part II of this series “Can the U.S Unite? If Not, How Does It Divide?” makes the analogy that States joining the United States check in under the rules of the Hotel California: They can check out anytime they like, but they can never leave. No matter how bad it gets! No matter how much…