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There’s evidence, and then there’s supposition and rhetoric based on emotion without any data. The latter screams that anyone who calls for entitlement reform hates poor people and wants grandma to eat cat food. The former knows that when entitlement states collapse, the poor suffer the most.
Absent reform, ours will eventually collapse. So who hates the poor—those who want t prevent that, or those who simply demagogue the subject to increase their own power?
Hamel: Future Insolvency Of Social Security, Medicare Requires Urgent Action
Arlington, Va. – The Social Security and Medicare trustees today released their 2013 annual report, detailing the fiscal condition of two of the most important federal programs for seniors. Medicare added only two years of solvency, with the hospital insurance trust fund due to be exhausted by 2026, and Social Security is still projected to be i...
“IRS May Have Targeted Conservatives More Broadly”
McClatchy reports, “A group of anti-abortion activists in Iowa had to promise the Internal Revenue Service it wouldn’t picket in front of Planned Parenthood. Catherine Engelbrecht’s family and business in Texas were audited by the government after her voting-rights group sought tax-exempt status from the IRS. Retired military veteran Mark Drabik of Nebraska became active in and donated to conservative cau...
Obama and His Economic Policies Are Retarding Job Creation
As Congress moves toward the highly charged issues of raising the debt ceiling and passing a budget for the next fiscal year, the air will be filled with reminders of the headlong rush towards national bankruptcy.
The leading indicators are the nearly $17 trillion national debt and another $1 trillion deficit. There will be justifiable handwringing over the need to trim spending and the failure to tackle entitlement reform.
The Washington Guardian reports, “The Internal Revenue Service can improve its handling of tax examinations and audits, allowing it to recoup more of the estimated $450 billion annually in unpaid taxes, investigators said. Although not directly tied to the embattled tax-exempt office that has come under fire from lawmakers this week, the report by the Government Accountability Office shows there’s still room for improve...
ICYMI, on Tax Day, Heritage provided a useful chart showing federal spending, by percent, laid out on an image of a dollar bill. As it happens, we at Western Free Press did the same thing last year. Below are the two charts. Notice how entitlement spending is going up (this time, Social Security)? Note that eventually, entitlement spending will crowd out all other spending, consuming all revenue.
