10 Reasons to Oppose Highway/Student Loan/Flood Insurance Omnibus Bill

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  June 28th at 07:40 PM  | 

While everyone is focused on how to deal with the impending government takeover of healthcare, we must continue to battle the forces of big-government in Congress.  Yesterday, in another display of venerable bipartisanship, leaders from both parties agreed to roll the $120 billion Democrat highway bill, subsidies to fuel the Big Education bubble, and a 5-year extension of government-run flood insurance into one omnibus bill, | Read More »

Double Capitulation Alert: Say No to Highway and Student Loan Bills

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  June 27th at 07:00 PM  | 

While everyone is waiting breathlessly to see whether the Supreme Court will strike down Obama’s egregious power grab in the healthcare sector, a bipartisan group of congressmen and senators are working to grow government in several other sectors of the economy.  We must not be complacent. In our battle to shrink the size of the federal government, there have been a number of issues on | Read More »

Keep Term Limits on Committee Chairmen

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  May 16th at 10:40 AM  | 

People often ask me what can be done to move the elected officials within the Republican Party rightward.  Well, for one thing, we need to elect more conservatives.  But more importantly, we need those conservatives to obtain positions of power, such as chairmanships of the committees that set our domestic policy agenda. Not surprisingly, all the relevant committee chairmen are either conduits for leadership or | Read More »

Do Republicans Care About the Deficit or Not?

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  February 16th at 04:00 PM  | 

Republicans who seek our support during an election cycle declare emphatically that they will deal with the deficit upon being elected.  Once elected, however, they far too often evince nothing but apathy towards efforts to solve our budget crisis.  Worse yet, they even work assiduously to create new deficits. Ever since Republicans won control of the House in 2010, instead of looking for spending cuts | Read More »

GOP Plans to Cave on Transportation Spending

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  September 27th at 12:45 PM  | 

We’ve seen this show before.  Republicans propose grand ideas to cut spending and implement free-market reforms; they speak ebulliently about their new ideas, and …they summarily scuttle them and cave to the Democrats. Earlier this year, Republicans proposed a commendable plan to end the bipartisan pork fest of surface transportation spending.  Instead of continuing the inexorable expansion of transportation spending, House Transportation Committee Chairman John | Read More »

Time to End Bipartisan Profligacy of Transportation Spending

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  July 18th at 08:35 AM  | 

One of the preferred methods liberals use to tax and spend is to create special “trust funds” for particular expenditures, with the intent of hiding the funds within the Treasury’s general fund.  The system goes something like this: levy a tax that is supposedly earmarked for a specific expense and impounded in a trust fund (lock box); gradually purloin the fund by using it for | Read More »