“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
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...
In March of 2018, President Trump signed into law a $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill to avoid shutting down the federal government. After signing the 2,200-page bill, the president proclaimed he would “never sign another bill like this again.” Could...
