Boehner's Budget Truce Averts Shutdown
Boehner's two-week spending bill may have avoided a shutdown for now, but the GOP's budget woes may just be beginning. As Congress dithers on the federal budget, the states have taken the bull by the horns. Sometimes, as in the case of Wisconsin Gov. Scott, maybe too close to the horns. …The Reid Bill's Hidden Pork
ClintonCare sat at 1,342 pages. The Reid bill is 2,070 pages, pre-amendments. Democratic leaders have put together increasingly long bills, packed with regulations and pork. Break time for nursing moms? Hundreds of millions in funding to help teenagers make the transition to adulthood (including …The Elderly Say "No"
People on Medicare are often suspicious of expanded government involvement in healthcare, because they see it as competing with Medicare for scarce dollars. Tom Schaller asks : "Why are senior citizens crying "socialism" at town halls?" As we like to say in academia: I don't know the answer, …