California Governor Jerry Brown delivered his annual “State of the State” address to the legislature on Thursday, against the backdrop of a volatile stock market that could threaten the state budget surplus he achieved, and cause future fiscal uncertainty. Brown told legislators, “…you are not going to hear me talk today about new programs. Rather, I am going to focus on how we pay for the commitments we have already made.”
At the end of a hefty speech at Liberty University in Virginia on Monday, Donald Trump made what has been widely reported as a promise to force Apple to move its manufacturing operations to the United States.
President Obama blamed male lawmakers for sales taxes on tampons and pads for women, suggesting that they were ignorant of the struggles of women in America. Obama hosted a series of interviews with YouTube personalities this afternoon, including one interview
Texas taxpayers are now paying for hormone treatment for inmates who are transgender, have Gender Dysphoria Disorder, or have an Intersex condition.
For those provincials out there, Dubuque, Iowa is usually thought of as, well, a city in Iowa. But in his new effort to nationalize the states, Obama has essentially reassigned the venerable Hawkeye State city to Chicago.
The Left’s strategy for covering Barack Obama’s failures, and sticking us with his disastrous Secretary of State as his successor, requires his friends to somehow smear public opposition as irrational “anger.”
A mob at a Muslim shrine in central Kabul killed an Afghan woman who was falsely accused of burning the Koran, showing that Afghanistan has not changed much despite more than 14 years of U.S.-led engagement.
The Senate easily approved a $1.8 trillion tax and spending package Friday on a vote of 65-33.
With the rise of Uber, Airbnb, and TaskRabbit, there’s a sinking suspicion that the traditional 9-5 job is being replaced by flexible, independent contract work. But, despite the existence of multiple billion-dollar Silicon Valley startups hiring an army of independent contract workers, economists have had difficulty finding any evidence that Americans were more likely to be self-employed.
It’s remarkable how much effort left-wingers put into avoiding the high taxes they advocate for everyone else.
Government-approved immigrant jihadis have attacked and killed another 14 Americans, but GOP politicians are ignoring the obvious fix demanded by the American public—reduce Islamic migration into the United States.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan has now laid forth his agenda for the Republican Congress—and while his advocates have praised him as a forward-thinking, public relations-savvy replacement for predecessor Rep. John Boehner (R-OH), his speech on Thursday didn’t show it.
The U.S. Senate approved a bill Thursday that would strip Obamacare of key tax-raising features and would also eliminate taxpayer-funding of abortion businesses, including Planned Parenthood.
The Senate passed legislation Thursday to repeal key parts of Obamacare.
GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina came out swinging against President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for politicizing the mass shooting in California.
On Wednesday, the White House rejected the Pentagon’s plan for an alternative to the Guantánamo Bay military facility on mainland U.S. soil because it could cost $600 million to implement and was deemed too expensive.
On November 25, President Obama signed the NRA-backed National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) containing provisions to protect lead ammo, expand military-to-civilian gun sales, and give local commanders the ability to allow base personnel to be armed.
As the city of Baltimore continues to deal with the aftermath of the tens of millions in damage caused by this summer’s riots, the city has been hit with a $75 million budget shortfall for the next fiscal year, a report says.
“The reason we have a debt is because George W. Bush led us into war,” Democratic presidential candidate Gov. Martin O’Malley told Rachel Maddow at a candidate forum in South Carolina Friday.
President Barack Obama’s Department of Education has ordered a suburban Chicago school to allow a boy who claims to be a girl into the girls’ locker room, whether or not the girls or parents like it.
In August 2015, the Obama administration announced its Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plan to cut the national average of 32 percent of carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 from power plants’ 2005 levels.
Paul Ryan’s previous criticism of the deal to his Republican colleagues was quite pointed, including a declaration that the process “stinks.” But now he expresses optimism that the deal will include “meaningful reforms to strengthen our safety net programs, including significant changes to bolster Social Security,” and fund the military, as well as providing an opportunity to “return to regular order in our budget process.” His evaluation has been upgraded from stinky to “some good, some bad, and some ugly.”
In what the Hartford Courant refers to as “a stunning rebuke” of Gov. Dannel Malloy (D-WFP), the newly released Quinnipiac University survey finds the Connecticut governor’s approval rating has plummeted to 32%, the “lowest score for any governor in the nine states surveyed” this year.
Tremaine Aldon Neverson, better known by his stage name as Trey “Trigga” Songz, is the latest Obama-supporting hip-hop artist to be targeted by the IRS for neglecting to pay his federal tax bill.
Politico has issued a notice to GOP 2016 contenders: “Common Core has won the war.”
Big tech companies are safeguarding billions of dollars in offshore tax havens, according to a new study. Apple alone, the biggest offender, is stashing $181B in revenue with an estimated tax burden of $59.2B. In other words, Apple’s taxes could pay for nearly the entirety of President Obama’s plan for free two-year community college (an estimated $60B).
Emily Blunt revealed the real reason she became an American citizen this summer – and it’s all about the money.
Over the course of 2015 Breitbart News has confirmed that the Washington Post’s fact check column is a fraud — nothing more than a left-wing opinion column disguised as fact-checking. Our detailed, in-depth study proved that Republicans are targeted by
“This is a hell of a plan,” conservative radio host Mark Levin said Monday night about Donald Trump’s tax proposal, while admitting he disagrees with the GOP candidate in several areas.
During his “60 Minutes” interview Sunday, Republican presidential front-runner appeared to come out in favor of a form of single payer health insurance for the uninsured (although he does says he’s going to “take care of everybody”) and openly called
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump sent the Club for Growth a “cease and desist letter” alleging the organization published false and defamatory information about him through its advertisements that say Trump supports the “highest tax increase in history.”
Donald Trump is currently involved in a vicious argument with the Club for Growth over tax policy. The Club for Growth is running ads against Trump in Iowa accusing him of several offenses against growth-oriented conservatism, including a proposal to raise taxes. They added a bare-knuckle punch proclaiming Trump to be more liberal than Hillary Clinton, or even Bernie Sanders, and called him “the worst kind of politician.”
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said hedge fund managers who are contributing to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican candidate Jeb Bush are “going to be paying up” under his tax plan. He also
The Club for Growth PAC is charging that GOP frontrunner Donald Trump wants more federal control over businesses in the United States.
On Wednesday, California Governor Jerry Brown evaded questions about whether he would raise taxes to pay for new road repairs. Some Democratic leaders have urged raising taxes on gas or cigarettes. But Brown remained mum on any tax hike, saying coyly, “I’m
President Obama is not alone in wielding governmental power to clamp down on carbon-emitting energy. While he weaponizes the Environmental Protection Agency to take on coal-powered energy, potentially shutting down hundreds of coal-fired power plants, Alberta’s new socialist NDP government is pushing ostensibly environmentally-minded policies against oil on shared premises of combating “climate change.”
For years, security-minded politicians have been saying that U.S. spy agencies and the private sector need to have a better working relationship to stop terrorism. But if the arm-in-arm relationship between communications giant AT&T and the National Security Agency is any indication, that relationship is already in full bloom. Worse, the government has been paying AT&T millions to supply the info.
California Democrats wants to create a mileage tax–a new tax on every mile driven in the state–despite already having the highest gas taxes in the nation. State officials say they need the tax increase, because gas tax collections to pay
A judge has ruled that the city of St. Louis does not need the approval of the taxpayers to spend millions of tax dollars on a new riverfront stadium.
The nearly one-year-old U.S. military campaign against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq and Syria has already cost American taxpayers more than $3 billion, according to the Pentagon.
