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...
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”...
Congressional Omnibus is Like a Bad Hollywood Movie Sequel
This weekend’s late-night spending vote in Congress seems like another in an endless series of sequels to a bad suspense movie. Just at the brink of “disaster,” just before the stroke of midnight, Congress pulls off a miracle and passes an omnibus bill to save us from...