Born from partisan back door deals and closed room meetings, Obamacare is a boondoggle of historic proportions. Candidate Obama pledged unprecedented transparency to the American people when running for President back in 2008. Yet the day he took office, President Obama got to work on one of the most opaque and closed door, big-government takeovers we have seen. Weighing in at over 2,700 pages, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), although deemed constitutional by the Supreme Court, is still a dangerous collaboration of bad legislating, smoke and mirrors mathematical calculations… Read More

That seminal moment in the 2012 Presidential race may seem like years ago, as this political season has really ramped up and thousands of commercials, emails and mail pieces have inundated your TVs and mailboxes since President Obama stood on the stage in Virginia that summer day and stumped: “If you have a business, you didn’t build that. Someone else built that.”

The President’s aides and liberal pundits quickly stammered into damage control mode, claiming that the President’s words had been taken out of context and what he really meant was that all businesses are successful because of collective things provided by the government such as public roads and the internet.

In today’s 24 hour partisan media market, it seems at times the pundits are watching every candidate’s moves, waiting with bated breath for someone to slip up, say something wrong or veer of message, and when one does, it is as if Christmas came early.Any opportunity to take a statement and spin it, exploit it or take out it of context can produce days of political fodder, millions of dollars worth of TV… Read More

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)announcedthat only 69,000 jobs were added in the month of May, far below market expectations and well short of the 150,000 jobs that BLS says are needed every month just to keep pace with population growth. While the announcement of any new jobs is welcomed, May marks the fourth straight month of slowing job growth and demonstrates that Americans continue to suffer through a painfully tepid recovery made even slower by the president’s failed policies.

Remember when President Obama promised that if we passed the “Stimulus,” we could keep unemployment under 8%? The unemployment rate in May increased to 8.2 percent, marking an inauspicious milestone—the 40th consecutive month that unemployment has been at or above 8 percent under President Obama. The “Stimulus”… Read More

Last year, as the federal government approached a limit on how much it could legally borrow, the Obama administration asked Congress to rubber-stamp an increase in the government’s borrowing authority without any spending cuts to match.

When House Republicans made clear that any increase in the debt limit must be accompanied by an even greater amount of spending reduction, the President insisted that he would not accept a debt-limit deal that did not include large tax increases on American families and businesses.

All of this work was made more difficult by the Senate’s failure to pass any budgets at all in 2010 or 2011. Nevertheless, both parties were eventually able to come together and avoid defaulting on the government’s obligations.

We succeeded in protecting hardworking taxpayers by securing a debt-limit increase that contained zero tax hikes.

Instead, we established caps on spending for government agencies, saving roughly $1… Read More

Recently, in between the news stories of continued record unemployment, skyrocketing gas prices and European nations like Greece going up in flames due to their crippling national debt and forced austerity measures (a course we are quickly following), we learned of a lavish conference held in Las Vegas by the GSA.

This conference, complete with all the Vegas luxuries of flashy shows, flowing alcohol, exquisite food and all the other 5 star amenities Sin City affords, rung up to a grand total of $820,000 plus. This nearly million dollar price tag included spending for frills such as a clown, a mind reader and a… Read More

House Democrats have grossly claimed that the Republican plan will “hurt women and children” because H.R. 4682 repeals the so-called Prevention and Public Health Fund, an Obama Care grant program that has become little more than a multi-billion dollar slush fund for the president to spend on his own priorities, and redirects its resources to student loan relief and deficit reduction. Democrats vehemently protest this plan while… Read More

Do you know how much money you owe? What income bracket you are in? What percentage of your income goes to the government each paycheck? Which tax credits and deductions you are eligible to claim? Is your family or business able to manage the overwhelming process of filing without the help of an outside source? 1099, W2, 1040, W4, 3903, 2106—the forms can seem endless.

Each year, families and businesses across the country forge through mountains of forms and receipts, attempting to properly navigate their tax returns. “Tax Day” is the day where we are all made keenly aware of how complicated and broken our tax system is.

At over 72,500 pages, our tax code has become a broken maze of complexity, bureaucracy and political favoritism, and it has to be fixed. We need a tax code that is simple and… Read More