Budget and Deficit

If we are going to reform the Social Security disability insurance program, let's be bold and privatize it.

President Obama is actively trying to get college students hooked on thousands of dollars in taxpayer-funded loans, only to forgive much of that debt later. That's how you create government dependency, not fiscally responsible citizens.

President Obama believes redistributing money is the way to create jobs and spur economic growth, and thieves are helping him do just that.

As President Obama trolls for ever more spending, it is more important than ever for Republicans to keep the sequester spending caps if they want to control government spending.

President Obama wants to throw more money at the National Institutes of Health, as part of the liberal vision that government is better and cheaper at research. But taxpayers shouldn't give more money to an agency that wastes billions of dollars on questionable, and even ludicrous, research.  

Congressional Republicans should consider an orchestrated, loud guffaw when the president proposes his tax and spending agenda in tomorrow’s State of the Union address.

Even as we honor our soldiers for the job they do, conservatives should bring the same concern about government waste, inefficiency and overreach to the military that we do to every other government agency.

The IRS had its budget cut in the continuing resolution this year and immediately the press and many liberal groups called the reduction outrageous, but the cruelest cut was saved for the taxpayer.

For conservatives, there are a surprising number of policy victories in the "CRomnibus."

Under the terms of TRIA, if a certified terrorist attack exceeds $100 million, the law kicks in, with private insurers repaying taxpayers on the first $27.5 million of damages, Tom Giovanetti, president of the Institute for Policy Innovation, wrote in Forbes.