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A Second Great Depression Is Not How We Will Defeat COVID-19

By Emma Meshell As the COVID-19 death toll eclipses 34,000 in the U.S., it’s fair to say that the American people have a right to be worried about the public health crisis posed by the novel coronavirus. It’s also fair to say that, as terrible as this outbreak is, this is not the greatest threat…

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Brexit and Trump Mean One Thing: The World Is Sick of Bureaucracy

Recent Election Trends Show Disdain for Big Government By Pia Varma What yesterday’s Presidential election has proven more than anything else,is that people are sick of government corruption and bureaucracy. Whether Donald Trump is the right man for the job or not is irrelevant. For all his plethora of faults, the fact of the matter is…

Americans Have To Fill Out 188 Million Hours Of Paperwork To Comply With EPA Regs
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Americans Have To Fill Out 188 Million Hours Of Paperwork To Comply With EPA Regs

By Michael Bastasch The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is not only costing heavy industries billions of dollars a year, the agency is also forcing companies to spend 188 million hours every year filing paperwork to comply with federal rules. To comply with EPA’s paperwork burden “it would take more than 94,200 employees working full-time (2,000…

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Gov’t Distributed Subsidies Meant For Minorities Are Going To White People

Juliegrace Brufke White loan borrowers are collecting settlement proceeds distributed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) intended for black, Hispanic and Asian people, according to the House Committee of Financial Services’ Wednesday report. The CFPB is responsible for distributing $80 million in settlement proceeds to “more than 235,000 minority consumers” for alleged racial discrimination by auto-lender Ally Financial Inc. and Ally…

2015 Was A Record Year For Federal Regulators

Michael Bastasch Federal agencies have written a record-breaking 81,611 pages of regulations this year to advance President Barack Obama’s massive regulatory agenda which includes tackling issues from global warming to health care. “That’s higher than last year at 77,687 pages and higher than it’s ever been at 81,405 in 2010,” wrote Clyde Wayne Crews, the vice president…