Federal Funding
Welfare by Any Other Name Is Still Welfare
In William Shakespeare’s tragic romance “Romeo and Juliet,” about two young Italian lovers from feuding families in Verona, Juliet utters the famous line: “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Juliet, from the House of...
National Debt: The Top 5 Worst Presidents of All Time
James Madison called public debt “a public curse.” The U.S. has been cursed for most of its existence, and the curse continues to grow at a dizzying pace. The only time in U.S. history that the debt was fully paid off was during President Andrew Jackson’s...
Founders’ Foresight: The Perils of Perpetual Debt
“A public debt is a public curse.” That’s how James Madison put it, and he was right. Today, America is absolutely drowning in debt – and teetering on the brink. We’ve just hit a new, previously unthinkable milestone: a national debt of $36 trillion...
The Government Wants Your Money Any Way It Can Get It
The government wants your money. It will beg, steal or borrow if necessary, but it wants your money any way it can get it. This is what comes of those $1.2 trillion spending bills: someone’s got to foot the bill for the government’s fiscal insanity, and that “someone”...