By Joe Wolverton, II The domestic damage done by President Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs on Chinese goods will now be exacerbated by the president’s proclamation of his intent to blunt the blow by giving a multi-billion dollar bailout to farmers affected by the fallout. You read that right. Not only are American consumers going…
If a hiker gets lost in the wilderness, should she bear the costs of her own rescue? The recent ordeal of a woman lost in a Maui forest for seventeen days brings this issue once again to public attention. State-funded rescue operations were called off after three days of effort because of the expense, but fortunately, this…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield Seattle City Council members have given the OK for $1 million of tax payer dollars so illegals can hire attorneys and tap into legal services that will — get this — help them fight their deportations, reports the Seattle Times (ST). The city and county will distribute the…
of The Libertarian Republic or its sponsors. LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Thomas Phippen The bomb U.S. forced dropped Thursday on an ISIS training camp in Afghanistan cost U.S. taxpayers an estimated $170,000 per unit in 2003, but the Pentagon does not have an exact cost, according to an Air Force statement. Multiple news outlets reported Thursday that…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ethan Barton Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officials seized an estimated $17.1 million from people wrongly thought to be involved in “criminal enterprises,” a government watchdog reported Tuesday. The IRS seized the money “to disrupt and dismantle criminal enterprises,” but funds involved in 91 percent of the 278 investigations by…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ethan Barton Taxpayers funded eight nonprofits that serve, protect or advocate for illegal immigrants with more than $291 million between 2012 to 2016, according to an analysis of federal spending data and tax documents by the Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group. The eight groups — including at least…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Sarah Hurtubise An Oregon insurer got a leg up in a court ruling in an ongoing battle over whether the federal government owes billions to insurers who volunteered to participate in Obamacare exchanges and lost money. A U.S. Court of Federal Claims ruled Thursday evening that the federal government…
By Luke Rosiak Federal employees spend more than $1 billion a year boosting the government’s image, including the salaries of an estimated 5,000 official “spokesmen” who often ignore questions from reporters about agency operations and try to distract public attention away from embarrassing scandals. “A good product sells itself. So what does it say when…
By Kathryn Watson U.S. taxpayers spent $95 million so 434 devices across the country could secretly transform their cell phones into real-time tracking devices, according to a new House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (HOGR) report. The Department of Justice (DOJ) spent more than $71 million on 310 cell-site simulators, also known as Stingrays,…
By Thomas Phippen Taxpayers may be paying half a billion dollars a year in fraudulent cell phone subsidies, according to a letter sent Wednesday by a senior Federal Communications Commission official. Ajit Pai, the senior Republican commissioner at the FCC, says there may be as many as 4.2 million duplicate recipients of Lifeline Assistance subsidies, also…