Former U.S. Comptroller David Walker delivered a somber economic message Friday at UT Dallas but told the audience of business leaders that there was still time for the nation to take its bitter fiscal medicine and keep a growing budget deficit from dimming its future. Warning that “we are standing on a burning platform,” Walker [...]
‘Washington has not learned the first rule of holes’
April 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: · baby boomers, Bob McCarty, ceo netweavers, corporate governance, Dallas, david walker, Economy, fiscal wake-up tour, Medicare, rule of holes, social security, u.s. comptroller, university of texas dallas, ut dallas
Find Out Where Your Tax Dollars Went
April 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments
Have you ever wondered where your federal tax dollars go? If you have, then the information below is for you. The federal government disbursed $2.45 trillion in domestic spending in 2006, according to two reports published by the U.S. Census Bureau. That represented a 7.5 percent increase in federal spending over 2005. The first of [...]
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‘Earmarks, the Gateway Drug for Overspending’ (Updated)
March 26th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Today, this Oklahoma native was fortunate to stumble across the text of a 35-page speech delivered on the floor of the U.S. Senate March 13 by a man for whom I have the greatest respect and admiration, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.). Although that speech received little or no attention in the form of mainstream media [...]
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A Presumption That Taxes Probability
September 14th, 2007 · No Comments
By Randy Alcorn, Guest Blogger Among the repertoire of rationalizations repeatedly presented by supporters of illegal immigrants to convince the American public that illegal immigrants are beneficial to America is the one that asserts illegal immigrants are hard working people who pay their fair share of taxes. While it is empirically true that illegal immigrants [...]
Tags: · Amnesty, Border Security, californias for population stabilization, CAPS, Center for Immigration Studies, Illegal Immigrants, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, Mexico, randy alcorn, social security, taxes
