Good Job by Freshmen on Flood Insurance Bill

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  January 4th at 01:18 PM  | 

In one of the last votes of 2012, the Senate passed Obama’s bloated Sandy “relief” bill (H.R. 1) 62-32.  The $60.4 billion price tag makes this the most expensive disaster aid bill on record.  It’s full of special interest projects that have nothing to do with the emergency, as witnessed by the fact that 64% of the funds will not be spent until FY 2015.  | Read More »

Charting a Path To Reauthorizing Free Markets and Ending Statism

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  May 17th at 12:44 PM  | 

When it comes to free-market fiscal policy, Republicans are always manufacturing excuses to exempt themselves from their own doctrine on numerous issues.  There are always excuses why specific industries must be recipients of government interventions.  They say that exporters cannot function without the Ex-Im Bank; farmers cannot subsist without government welfare despite record high prices; the financial markets cannot survive without bailouts.  The latest exception | Read More »