Budget and Deficit

Calls for higher taxes on the wealthy are not really about “fairness,” but rather are about who controls and directs capital in our economy—capitalists themselves or government elites?

Congress and the President have failed—utterly—to run a government that operates within a reasonable level that the American economy can afford to fund. When they talk about raising taxes, they are just trying to paper over their failures—with your money.

Virtually lost in the debate is that the more the government cuts spending, the less new revenue needs to be raised. 

The election was an opportunity for the American people to pull back from the abyss formed by all of these “cliffs” we face. But instead of stepping back from the abyss, it appears that the American people have decided take a step closer, lean forward, and gaze into the abyss.

Listen to those who defend President Obama's economic record and then take a look at the graph, which undermines virtually every claim.

It is time to rethink our goals and achievements—or lack thereof—with foreign aid.

As the national debt clock ticks away in Tampa, it forces us to begin to ask, what comes after "trillion."

With the selection of Paul Ryan as Mitt Romney’s companion on the Republican presidential ticket, it’s clear math will play a major role in the fall campaign. But who’s got the right math?

Romney’s bold pick of House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan as Vice President makes it clear the 2012 election is about the country's financial future, and with Ryan on the ticket, President Obama will be dragged kicking and screaming into the Medicare reform debate.

In a normal election year, Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst would have coasted to a Republican senatorial nomination victory.  But this is not a normal election year, and Texans are sending Washington a warning.