All posts tagged "government spending"
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Economy and Finance
Protectionism Abroad and Socialism at Home
August 21, 2018One of the most insidious ways politicians expand government is by creating new programs to “solve”...
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Economy and Finance
Trump’s $1 Trillion Deficits Are Just As Harmful As Obama’s
August 20, 2018If you hear leftists tell it, Obama's $1 trillion deficits helped the economy while Trump's are...
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Economy and Finance
Trump’s Tweets End the Myth of Fed Independence
July 31, 2018Significant rate increases could make it impossible for the government to service its existing debt, thus...
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Economy and Finance
Spending Our Way to a Fiscal Crisis
July 24, 2018The excessive debt caused by excessive spending will inevitably cause a major economic crisis. Yet, with...
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Economy and Finance
The Federal Government Will Spend $685 Billion Subsidizing Health Care in 2018
May 23, 2018Over the next ten years, the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion is set to cost the...
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Economy and Finance
Bernie Sanders Has a Jobs Plan. It’s Called ‘Socialism.’
April 24, 2018Can’t get work? Trim hedges for the government!
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Economy and Finance
‘Astronomical’ Cost of War: Average US Taxpayer Sent $3,456 to Pentagon Last Year and Just $39 to the EPA
April 18, 2018As long as we are forced to pay taxes, shouldn't that money be used to benefit...
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Economy and Finance
How the Postal Service Loses So Much Money
April 16, 2018The reason the USPS is in trouble and is struggling to cover its estimated $29 billion...
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Editor's Choice
9 Ridiculous Things About the Omnibus Budget Bill
March 23, 2018Spending. The Pentagon. TIGER grants. Border Wall. NSF. Planned Parenthood. CDC. Head Start. The whole process....
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Economy and Finance
The Military Industrial Complex Strikes Again: War Spending Will Bankrupt America
February 16, 2018The problem we wrestle with is none other than a distorted American empire, complete with mega-corporations,...
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Economy and Finance
FACT CHECK: Does The Federal Government Borrow $1 Million Every Minute?
February 12, 2018Republican Sen. Rand Paul claimed Thursday that the federal government borrows $1 million every minute.
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Economy and Finance
Army Finds $830 Million In “Missing” Helicopters As First Ever Audit Begins
January 12, 2018Considering that today’s already known accounting blunders at the Department of Defense are no small matter,...
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Crime/Police State
Insane Homeland Security Spending Doesn’t Make Us Safer
January 2, 2018What does the US have to show for spending billions on Homeland Security anti-terrorism?
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Editor's Choice
Troops, Toys & Threats: Trump Signs $700 Billion Military Funding Bill
December 13, 2017US President Donald Trump has signed into law $700 billion in funding to the Pentagon, which...
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Editor's Choice
Where in the World is the $21 Trillion?
December 13, 2017This is a great example of why the system has to be totally scrapped and started...
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Economy and Finance
Pentagon To Undergo First Ever Audit After Decades Of Sloppy Accounting And Missing Trillions
December 11, 2017After decades of waste, overpayments, trillions of missing or improperly accounted for dollars, and most recently...
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Editor's Choice
Bezos Cashes in on Lobbying Washington With Amazon’s $53 Billion Deal to Supply Pentagon
November 16, 2017As Amazon continues to entrench itself as the nation’s commissary, huge government supply deals like the...
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Economy and Finance
$250 Million Each Day for 16 Years: The Staggering Cost of ‘War on Terror’
November 2, 2017The ‘War on Terror’ has cost US taxpayers at least $1.46 trillion since September 11, 2001,...
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Economy and Finance
US Spent A Record $4 Trillion In Fiscal 2017, Pushing Deficit To $666 Billion
October 20, 2017Today the Treasury reported that the full year deficit grew to a nice, round and very...
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Economy
The Masses Are Addicted to Government, and its Spending is Out of Control (Video)
October 19, 2017Stunning statistics reveal we are WAY too addicted to government.
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Economy and Finance
It’s Official: US Debt Finally Tops $20 Trillion, Jumps By $318 Billion In One Day
September 11, 2017It's happening....
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Economy and Finance
Congress Exploits Hurricane to Raise Debt Ceiling
September 11, 2017A refusal to raise the debt ceiling would not cause the government to default; it would...
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Economy and Finance
US Postal Service Calls for Price Increases Amid Record Losses
August 11, 2017The US Postal Service has seen record losses as traditional mail is replaced by electronic means....
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Agenda 21
Marko Gasic: The ‘Russian Threat’ Is An Excuse To Increase Military Spending
August 2, 2017International affairs commentator Marko Gasic says that poking the Russian bear until it escalates into aggression...
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Economy and Finance
Total Government And Personal Debt In The U.S. Has Hit 41 Trillion Dollars ($329,961.34 Per Household)
July 28, 2017The truth is that as a nation we are flat broke. The only way that the...
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Economy and Finance
Washington D.C. Is Essentially Just A Gigantic Money Machine
July 21, 2017It has been said that “money makes the world go round”, and that is definitely true...
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Economy and Finance
The Striking Reason Why The US Just Spent A Record $429 Billion In One Month
July 14, 2017The student debt bubble has begun to burst, and the Treasury is "provisioning" for it in...
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Economy and Finance
The Worst Financial Nightmare In Illinois History Erupts As State Comptroller Declares ‘We Are In Massive Crisis Mode’
June 19, 2017When you let government get out of control, what you end up with is a ravenous...
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Editor's Choice
Save Liberty, Shut Down the Government
May 2, 2017Too many have bought into the lie that government can protect us from life’s misfortunes and...
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Editor's Choice
Congress Reaches Deal To Keep Government Open Through September
May 1, 2017Negotiators from both parties reached an agreement on a spending package to fund the government through...