Tag: spending
Coalition Urges Congress to Keep BCA Spending limits in Place – Club for Growth signs on!
September 16, 2015 Dear Member of Congress: On behalf of our organizations and the millions of members we represent, we urge you to ensure that any legislation providing discretionary funding for Fiscal Year 2016 adhere to the discretionary spending levels set forth by the Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA). Congress passed the BCA with […]
Should Taxpayers Pay for Rabbit Massages?
Senator Coburn releases Wastebook 2014: What Washington doesn’t want you to read.
Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), long a champion of limited government and fiscal responsibility, has released his annual “Wastebook” (his last one, unfortunately, as Dr. Coburn is retiring this year) on government waste. Per Senator Coburn’s office, some examples include: Coast guard party patrols – $100,000 Watching grass grow – $10,000 State department tweets @ terrorists […]
More on Ebola…
In a follow-up from the last blog post, here’s this news item about what the private sector is doing about Ebola. Johnson & Johnson will begin safety testing in early January on a vaccine combination that could protect people from a strain of the deadly Ebola virus. The health care products maker said Wednesday that […]
@andyroth tweets
@andyroth In (dis)honor of Dodd-Frank’s 4th birthday, here are the AYES & NAYS from 2010. House: http://goo.gl/dMVebE Senate: http://goo.gl/C06WDw #cfg #doddfrank
New Club for Growth TV Ad Campaign: Thank Marilinda Garcia For Opposing Higher Taxes And Spending
Club for Growth President Chris Chocola: “Concerned citizens should encourage Marilinda to keep standing strong against higher taxes.” Washington, DC – The Club for Growth, the nation’s leading group promoting economic freedom, announced today a six-figure TV ad campaign in the state of New Hampshire. The ads encourage people across New Hampshire to call State […]
Club for Growth: Don’t Bail Out Highway Fund With Phony Offset
Club for Growth President Chris Chocola: “There’s simply no reason to keep kicking the can down the road.” Washington, DC – The Club for Growth released the following statement on plans by House GOP leaders to offset a bailout of the Highway Trust Fund by counting savings from a “not as large bailout” of the United States Postal […]
Senator Mike Lee: The Farm Bill vs. America
Big Government and Income Inequality
Economist David Malpass offers a good rebuttal to Democrats who are trying (yet again) to exploit income inequality this election year: Conservatives need to champion economic growth as Reagan did, but they also need to make a more forceful connection between the government’s centralization of power and income inequality.