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Reince Priebus Responds Forcefully to the CNBC Debate Debacle
Reince Priebus had a swift and forceful response to the mockery that was the CNBC debate hosted on Wednesday night. Though I am not particularly a fan of the RNC, in this instance, Priebus was correct to call out the behavior of the moderators and the breech of...
IRS Is Gearing Up To Take On 501c4s Again
During Congressional testimony on Tuesday, John Koskinen defended his tenure as Commissioner of the IRS against stirrings of impeachment among some elected officials. Koskinen maintained that there has been an ample turnover of personnel, as well as disciplinary...
Budget Deal: SSDI Gets A Bailout from Social Security Trust Fund
The latest reports on the budget deal show some entitlement changes coming to Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and the Social Security Trust Fund. The text of the bill is here. According to analysis of the deal, spending would be increased "by $80 billion...
WSJ: Obamacare Decline Will Force a Rewrite in 2017
No DOJ Charges for IRS Officials in Scandal
The cynic in me was wholly unsurprised when the Associated Press reported the Department of Justice (DoJ) concluded that no formal charges would be filed against any of the IRS officials embroiled in the IRS scandal of 2013. In a letter to Congress, the DoJ announced...
Obama Pitches a Bailout-type Plan for Puerto Rico
I have written numerous times in the past few months of the fiscal distress in Puerto Rico. I have discussed how Puerto Rico's debt crisis is the result of years of government mismanagement, and a major key to getting Puerto Rico back on track is to reduce the size...