Taxes and Spending

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy were tasked by President-elect Donald Trump to lead an effort to find and cut federal spending.

Lawrence McQuillan joins Bob to delve into the regulatory failures and mismanagement behind the wildfire crisis in California. 

Progressives have been calling for heavy taxes and other confiscatory policies to be aimed at wealthy Americans. While they didn‘t win the recent presidential election, their toxic message remains.

Politicians respond to pressure. If we want them to actually carry out the cuts they claim to stand for it’s up to us to provide that pressure.

Created as a sop to the teachers‘ unions, the Department has presided over huge declines in student academic performances and has played a vital role in politicizing formal learning at all levels. 

We're told that tariffs are going to do all sorts of great things. Mark Thornton sets the record straight.

As reality tells us that federal spending needs to be cut drastically, that means that local projects will need to be funded by states and localities, which means deficit spending is not an option. 

Britain‘s new Labour Government is doing what leftist governments always do: raising taxes on everyone, but pretending that only the wealthiest citizens will pay more. Middle-class British farmers are quickly finding out that the taxman is coming for them too.

Like Santa, who gives free gifts to our children, people think of the state as providing services “for free.” However, the state cannot provide anything without first confiscating wealth from others—like the Grinch, who first stole all the presents in Whoville.