by James Fite | Oct 15, 2021 | Articles, Opinion, Politics
Congressman Jim Banks (R-IN) accused Democrats of playing “hide the ball” with the text of the Build Back Better Act in a memo to the Republican Study Committee, which he chairs. The leviathan legislation comes in at a whopping 2,468 pages at the moment (changes...
by James Fite | Apr 22, 2021 | Articles, Climate Change
In 2019, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) introduced her Green New Deal – an infrastructure bill that would save the world by putting a stop to climate change and spending enough tax money to make old FDR green with envy. Alas, ending climate change...
by Andrew Moran | Jun 22, 2020 | Articles, Climate Change, Economic Affairs News, Politics, The Left
The infrastructure zealots and the Green New Deal (GND) acolytes have returned at the tail-end of the Coronavirus pandemic. The Republicans are championing investments in roads and highways, while the Democrats are advancing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s...
by James Fite | Apr 30, 2020 | Articles, Climate Change, Columns, Economic Affairs News, Social Issues, The Left
Make no mistake, the U.S. economy isn’t in the best shape these days. The Coronavirus panic and subsequent shutdowns left millions of Americans jobless. Then there’s the government solution: Double down on the mistake that caused so much trouble to begin with and...
by Andrew Moran | Feb 12, 2020 | Articles, Economic Affairs News, Politics, Social Issues, The Left
In government, it is never the politicians and the bureaucrats who are greedy. It is everybody else who is selfish, uncaring, thoughtless, and avaricious. The left contends that free-market capitalism is consumed by greed while dismissing the daily regulatory...