The Fake News tell lies. The numbers tell the truth. Trump is NOT cutting spending on Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. He's increasing spending. In fact, he's increasing it almost twice as much as was increased under Obama. --- Medicare spending under Obama FY2010: $453 billion FY2017: $593 billion 30.91% increase in eight years Medicare … Continue reading The Fake News lied again. Trump radically increasing Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security spending
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Health care costs continue to rise under Obamacare. A report released Tuesday by the Department of Health and Human Services shows a significant hike in the average cost of individual plans since 2013 in 39 states. In 2013, the average annual cost of a premium for an individual health care plan was $2,784. By 2017, the average … Continue reading In 3 Charts, the Biggest Revelations From New Obamacare Study
It’s clear that many big government policies are creating winners and losers in America. The story has been the same for decades. Government makes friends with a company or an industry, blocks out the competition with regulation, and in some cases gives the company subsidies. Such cronyism is bad for innovators and for consumers. But … Continue reading 8 Big-Government Policies That Hurt the Poor
The Fake News have been caught lying again. If Trump is "cutting" Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, as they hysterically claim, where were they when Obama "cut" it even more. Here are the actual numbers. Trump is not cutting entitlement spending. He's nearly doubling it. Trump budget, Social Security FY2017: $0.946 trillion FY2025: $1.728 trillion … Continue reading Fake News lies again: Trump increasing Social Security spending, more than Obama
If you were to believe the mainstream media, you may think President Trump just proposed slashing federal spending and decreasing the size of government. Bless your heart. Here are the actual numbers: Trump's proposed budget plan: FY2018 outlays: $4.094 trillion FY2027 outlays: $5.708 trillion That's a 39.4 percent increase in federal spending over the next … Continue reading ‘Trump cuts spending’ is Fake News. He’s increasing it worse than Obama.
President Donald Trump has arrived in Italy for the G-7 summit, where foreign leaders will press him to abandon core elements of his “America First” agenda in favor of a more globalist agenda. As National Public Radio reported last week, “President Trump is expected to face pressure from European Union leaders … to keep the … Continue reading Trump Must Resist Pressure From Foreign Leaders to Cave in on Global Warming
When the American colonists complained that the British subjected them to taxation without representation, the British responded that the colonists’ interests were represented in Parliament. The colonists rejected that argument on the grounds that they didn’t consent to that representation. The principle of no taxation without representation doesn’t constrain government if government can impose unwanted … Continue reading No Representation without Consent – Not Even from Unions
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki R. Haley, told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week” yesterday that “the president is the CEO of the country,” and thus “he can hire and fire whoever he wants. That’s his right.” Leaving aside the question of whether the president can fire everyone in the federal government, … Continue reading The President Is Not the Commander in Chief of the United States, Nor Its CEO
In the case Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, the Supreme Court announced a 4-4 vote on March 29, 2016. The tie was due to the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. For teachers unions around the country it was a great victory that would have likely not happened. Here is how The New York Times describes … Continue reading Why FDR was against Public Employee Unions
.. Over the past eight decades, Congress has gradually relinquished its lawmaking role and left it to the administrative state, said a conservative senator at a Capitol Hill event on Wednesday. “Many Americans now feel that they are not in control of their own government,” Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, said during an event hosted at the … Continue reading These three bills would permanently Drain The Swamp
