Devolve Transportation Spending to States

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  January 19th at 12:53 PM  | 

One of the numerous legislative deadlines that Congress will be forced to confront this session is the expiration of the 8th short-term extension of the 2005 surface transportation authorization law (SAFETEA-LU).  With federal transportation spending growing beyond its revenue source, an imbalance between donor and recipient states, inefficient and superfluous construction projects popping up all over the country, and burdensome mass transit mandates on states, | Read More »

Challenging the Constitutionality of Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion

By: Brad Jackson (Diary)  |  June 23rd at 10:48 AM  | 

Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Mario Loyola to discuss the court challenge of Obamacare’s expansion of Medicaid, how the Tenth Amendment plays a role in that argument and the growing overreach of the federal government. We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment and Stephen Clouse and Associates. | Read More »

AFL-CIO: People who believe in 10th Amendment have “cultish beliefs”

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  October 22nd at 01:00 PM  | 

When the term astro-turf didn’t stick, and tea bagger was thrown into the harbor of bad ideas, union bosses went into overdrive trying to think of new and creative ways to demean Americans who don’t agree with their socio-fascist ideals. Earlier this week, the CWA’s Larry Cohen decided that the Tea Party Movement advocates slavery.  Now, the AFL-CIO is charging that Americans who believe in the | Read More »