Posted on March 31st, 2011 by Erica Gordon
Today, the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) applauded Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) for introducing S. J. Res. 10, an amendment to the Constitution requiring that the federal budget be balanced. This amendment has received wide support, including that of Senators Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), John Cornyn (R-Tex.), Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), Pat Toomey [...]
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Posted on March 31st, 2011 by dbourg
Check out our Facebook page and help us select a 2011 April Fool! Our survey will be up through the end of the day today and we will announce the winner tomorrow. Don’t miss your chance to cast your vote!
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Posted on March 30th, 2011 by Tom Schatz
It seems fairly clear that Google engineers thought it would be cute to name buttons on its Google Buzz social network, “Sweet! Check out Buzz,” “Nah, go to my inbox,” and “Turn Off Buzz,” but the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) – and thousands of consumers who joined Buzz – did not think it was very [...]
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Posted on March 30th, 2011 by Leslie Paige
Today’s New York Times has a sharp critique of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) by someone with intimate knowledge of how poorly the program performed; Neil Barofsky, Special Inspector General for TARP. He sharply limns what went wrong, and also hammers the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP), which was created to supposedly help millions of homeowners obtain loan [...]
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Posted on March 30th, 2011 by Luke Gelber
Today, Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) introduced the Free Sugar Act of 2011, which will end domestic sugar producers’ artificial dominance of the American sugar market. As Sen. Lugar explained in a Washington Times editorial yesterday, sugar production in the United States is “a complicated system of marketing allotments, price supports, purchase guarantees, quotas and tariffs [...]
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Posted on March 24th, 2011 by Tom Schatz
You have to love a country that provides the freedom for people to write and wish that you would ”die of cancer” because they have seen CAGW’s “Chinese Professor“ ad, which portrays the potential consequences of failing to get the national debt under control. So being called “shameless,” “unpatriotic,” and ”xenophobic” seems mild by comparison. On the other [...]
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Posted on March 22nd, 2011 by Luke Gelber
It appears there are people in Washington trying to kill the corporate welfare-spewing, food price-boosting, energy-wasting tax credit even Fidel Castro knows is stupid. Hooray! From Sen. Coburn’s office: U.S. Senators Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) and Ben Cardin (D-MD) today introduced a bill to save taxpayers $6 billion by repealing the costly and ineffective Volumetric [...]
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Posted on March 18th, 2011 by Leslie Paige
Love having uber-blogger Mickey Kaus over at The Daily Caller. Today he has a great, link-filled blog post on the rationale for cutting wasteful spending, linking to an earlier post by Michael Kinsley as well. Kinsley makes a nice case for why cutting waste, fraud, and mismanagement in discretionary programs is worth the effort, even though [...]
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Posted on March 15th, 2011 by Leslie Paige
will lead the way as he embarks on his newest passion, the equivalent of his ”climate change initiative for 2011,” the campaign to help Presdient Obama establish a $25 billion Infrastructure Bank…so sayeth today’s Politico Playbook: BREAKING TODAY – Labor, business and senators both parties unite to push an INFRASTRUCTURE BANK (the BUILD Act) championed by Sen. John Kerry. [...]
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Posted on March 10th, 2011 by Luke Gelber
For-profit colleges have been under attack from a variety of angles over the past few months. Most infamous among them is the Department of Education’s “Gainful Employment” rule, which attempts to solve the problem of high dropout and default rates at for-profit schools by making it much more difficult for students who are likely to [...]
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