In The Tank (ep64) – How Will a Trump Presidency Affect Budget and Tax Policy?
With John out of the office, Donny is joined by Jesse Hathaway, research fellow and managing editor of Budget & Tax News, in episode #64 of the In The Tank Podcast. This weekly podcast features...
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Reclaiming Society and Community
Much of the confusion in current political discourse is attributable to a profound error inherited from Progressive Era thought. For early progressives — and no less Italian Fascists and German...
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Dodd-Frank: All Of It Is Awful – So All Of It Needs To Go
President-elect Donald Trump is President-elect Donald Trump – because he incepted and led much more than a simple political campaign. As he oft said at his massive rallies: “This is not just crowds...
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Repealing and Replacing Obamacare Made Easy
The big insight on repealing and replacing Obamacare that too many Republicans are missing is that they have the opportunity to enact an Obamacare replacement plan that the overwhelming majority of...
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Guest Article: On Spending, Is Rand Paul the Last Man Standing?
By: Barry Poulson Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) was the only legislator to vote against Senate Concurrent Resolution 3, which sets the framework for budget negotiations in the 115th Congress. His vote was...
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Trump’s Budgetary Blueprint Retains America’s Welfare State
President Donald Trump has issued his preliminary federal budget proposal looking to the U.S. government’s next 2018 fiscal year. What it shows very clearly is that there will likely be no attempt to...
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‘Now Arrives the Hour of Action’ for Federal Entitlement Reform
In his inaugural address in January, President Donald Trump promised “the forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer . . . the time for empty talk is over, now arrives the hour...
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Reform Entitlements to Help People, Not Government
By reforming government-run entitlement programs, lawmakers can start reversing a decades-long trend of trapping people in poverty — causing harm in the name of providing help. States are already...
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Harsh Criticism by Loyal Opposition to AHCA Unfounded
The first 100 days of a Presidency are often called the “Honeymoon” period. Some honeymoon! By most accounts, it was 100 days of a contentious divorce proceeding, with the Democrats wanting to keep...
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Homeschool Monthly #12: Homeschoolers to Betsy DeVos: Leave Us Alone
Image courtesy of HSLDA The Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) met with Betsy DeVos, secretary of education, to discuss federal law from the homeschool perspective. HSLDA and DeVos discussed...
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Peter Ferrara on SiriusXM: Reforming Social Security
Peter Ferrara, senior fellow for entitlement and budget policy at The Heartland Institute, joined host Mary Walter on Patriot Tonight to discuss a bill designed to reform Social Security Ferrara...
View ArticleIn The Tank (ep137) – Child Safety Accounts, Terrible Earth Day Predictions,...
John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #137 of the In The Tank Podcast. This weekly podcast features (as always) interviews, debates, and roundtable discussions that explore the work of think...
View ArticleIn The Tank (ep143) – Social Security Insolvency, Free College?, and Vermont...
Donny Kendal and John Nothdurft are joined by Justin Haskins in episode #143 of the In The Tank Podcast. This weekly podcast features (as always) interviews, debates, and roundtable discussions that...
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Welfare Programs, Promises, Pensions and Problems
Everyone knows that Social Security and Medicare are underfunded. They can only provide the benefits they have promised by borrowing from future taxpayers who are obligated to pay for them. And these...
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Can Democrats Save Entitlements And Healthcare?
The Washington Post of October 18 says that the biggest issues in the midterm elections are the threat that Republicans will slash Medicare and Social Security, and maybe get around to repealing...
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Medicare Is $38 Trillion Short – And Other Reasons Government Shouldn’t Run...
America’s Left has certainly evolved. Fifty years ago, it was the Left who didn’t trust Big Brother and wanted to stick it to The Man. Now they LOVE Big Brother, because they now are The Man. The Left...
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Government Spending Gets Even More Out of Control
The federal government continues to spend money like a drunken sailor who just won the Powerball jackpot. According to the Congressional Budget Office, “The federal budget deficit was $358 billion in...
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Some Seniors Are Being Shortchanged by Social Security Because of Government...
Social Security has a quirk that is shortchanging a select group of seniors more than $25,000 in lifetime benefits. While that might sound like a lot of money, the actual price tag paid by those...
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