Congress Is On A Chaotic December Spend-A-Thon With The Nation’s Next 50 Years Of Money
If Congress doesn’t have the willpower to regulate its spending—and year after year, it has proven that it doesn’t—then all of us as citizens must act, and hopefully vote, accordingly.
BRIGHT’s 2020 Holidays Gift Guide
Whether you’re shopping for your significant other, a dog lover, kids or a makeup queen, we’ve got you covered with no shortage of good ideas.
Oregon Plunders The Dead In Desperate Attempt To Pay Lavish Pensions
Oregon lawmakers can’t raise taxes fast enough to keep up with an entitlement pension plan that dominates all other spending needs across the state.
Nancy Pelosi’s ‘Emergency Coronavirus’ Obamacare Bailout Also Funds Abortion Coverage
The House speaker not only wants to use the coronavirus pandemic to entrench Obamacare, she wants to make taxpayers fund abortion in the process.
Why Congress Should Give People Emergency Loans Instead Of Handouts
Instead of bailouts, Congress should create new safety net programs that largely recover the cash relief from the same households and businesses that receive taxpayer support.
Why Congress’s Trillion-Dollar Coronavirus Bailouts Will Shackle The U.S. Economy
Like the New Deal, every additional billion dollars in stimulus and bailout spending will further delay the economic recovery we all want and need.
Slapdash Coronavirus ‘Stimulus’ An Unpaid Boondoggle That Already Needs Fixing
The leaders of both parties made getting Congress out of town a bigger priority than giving lawmakers the time to do their due diligence.
Trump Administration Proposes Removing Tobacco Authority From FDA
President Trump called for the Food and Drug Administration to lose its authority to regulate tobacco products in his budget request unveiled on Monday.
Trump’s 2021 Budget Aims To Increase Federal Spending On People With Disabilities
Today the Trump administration released ‘A Budget for America’s Future,’ better known as Trump’s financial wishlist for fiscal year 2021.
The ‘Cadillac Tax’ Repeal Will Sock Taxpayers With Debt And Increase Health Costs
The current definition of a bipartisan ‘deal’ occurs when both sides get what they want—at the expense of taxpayers, or more specifically future generations.
‘Ponzi Pete’ Buttigieg Proposes Even More Unsustainable Federal Entitlements
Buttigieg recently released an aging and retirement plan that proposed massive amounts of new entitlement spending, when we can’t afford current programs.
Federal Reserve Chair: Our Massive Federal Budget Deficits Are Unsustainable
Jerome Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, issued an ominous warning to lawmakers Wednesday that the federal budget is on ‘an unsustainable path.’
While Trillions In Deficits Loom, Ernst Proposes Trimming Federal Mascots And Other PR
Wasteful items cited by Ernst include more than $600,000 on coloring books, $60,000 on key chains, $33,000 on snuggies, and $17,000 on koozies.
Trillion-Dollar Deficits Are Here To Stay, Thanks To Entitlements
While many will blame Trump, the country’s addiction to entitlements and the passage of the Affordable Care Act are the true culprits for trillion-dollar federal deficits.
3 Reasons To Oppose The Sickeningly Swampy Budget Deal
Republicans agreed to hundreds of billions in additional spending to ‘win’ something they already had. The bill will raise spending by nearly $2 trillion over the coming decade, most of that not paid for.
I’m 19. The Spendthrift Trump-Congress Budget Deal Cripples My Future
Both parties on Capitol Hill finally agree on something: spending more money. The new budget deal reminds us it’s time to call a convention of states.
Americans Need To Stop Sending Money Abroad While We Rack Up Trillions In Debt
The United States, a debtor nation with a fiscal deficit pushing $22 trillion, can no longer be big daddy to the world and has to husband its resources more judiciously.
Trump And The Senate Need To Quickly Restore Financial Oversight To Puerto Rico
Given that Puerto Rico is just recently standing up better fiscal accountability, now is the time taxpayers need the Puerto Rico Oversight Board doing the job Congress gave them to do.
The President’s Spending Cap-Busting Budget Shouldn’t Be The Best We Can Do
The president’s budget proposes we spend vastly more money for 15 years than we take in, and lead us to spending more in interest payments than we do on Social Security or defense.
7 Ideas For Making Congress Solve The National Debt Crisis
Congressional salaries should be reduced every time a budget is passed with spending exceeding revenue, a firm cap on spending should be imposed, and entitlement reform should become an urgent priority.