Budget and Deficit

The New York Times thinks Social Security doesn’t affect the federal deficit, but it clearly does.

A new report suggests maybe all the uproar on Capitol Hill about the sequester was nothing but hype. IPI's Tom Giovanetti says any move Washington makes to actually slow down its wild spending is a good move.

Medicaid expansion comes with “free” money that always seems to cost a lot.

If the sequester cuts are hurting the economy, the stock market hasn’t noticed.

IPI President Tom Giovanetti's Address at the 25th Anniversary Celebration: A New Frontier for Liberty.

Conservatives should not assume bureaucrats will think or act like private sector business when implementing the sequester cuts.

The Obama administration proposes selling the TVA. The only question we have is why stop there?

Seniors strongly supported Mitt Romney in the 2012 election over President Barack Obama, and now Obama attempts to get his revenge in his most recent budget proposal with cuts to Social Security and Medicare, as well as tax hikes for estates and 401(k)s.

The U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has been ratcheting up its use of some questionable methods for determining hiring or pay discrimination, amounting to a perpetual witch hunt of manufactured culprits to harass in order to justify their own existence—and budget.

While some conservatives admire Obama's $100 billion initiative to map the human brain, IPI's Merrill Matthews warns: "We also have to remember that doing so requires the government to allocate the research funds. And as we saw with Solyndra and several other now-defunct companies, this administration hasn’t always made good choices.”