Congress Should Just Say No to IMF Funding
While most Americans were celebrating Christmas and exchanging gifts with family members, Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin spent Christmas Eve at the Federal Reserve Bank of New…
Category: Taxes
No Exit from Bosnia; It Was Planned That Way
President George Bush reneged on the most famous campaign pledge of modern times (“No new taxes; read my lips”) after his adviser Richard Darman told him, “Nobody believed…
Why Are Republicans Now Backing Clintoncare?
Memories are short. Some Republicans don’t seem to remember why they captured control of Congress away from the Democrats in 1994 for the first time in four decades.…
The Primary Republican Mission Is to Cut Taxes
It was a political earthquake in 1994 when the Republicans won a majority in Congress for the first time in four decades. Three years later, there is no…
Can We Sustain the UN’s Sustainable Goals?
It looks as though American taxpayers may be suckered into paying an additional $819 million to the United Nations on the UN’s promise to “reform.” It should be…
Americans Are Suspicious of Government
Ordinarily I don’t pay much attention to public opinion polls, but a recent one deserves comment. A Scripps Howard News Service/Ohio University national survey discovered that the majority…
Beware of Gifted and Talented Invitations
Any parent will puff up with pride when the school says that his child is “gifted and talented” and should be promoted into a special class with other…
Time to Cut the Cost of Big Government
July 3 has been designated as “Cost of Government Day 1997” by a number of Governors and organizations in the hope that this will alert Americans to the…
Congress Must Stop Kowtowing to China
All segments of the conservative movement are united in opposing Most Favored Nation (MFN) status and World Trade Organization (WTO) membership for Communist China. Newt Gingrich has a…
Encryption Is Essential to Freedom
The Clinton Administration sent three of its spokesmen to Capitol Hill last week to plead the case for “key escrow” before the House Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual…