Opinion Editorials

  • Camp: Health Law Will Hurt Consumers, Business
    May 27, 2010  - The Democratic agenda has been made clear: Tax Americans more so government can spend more. It started with a trillion-dollar stimulus bill that has failed to hold unemployment in check. Then it was a trillion-dollar health care bill that, according to the Congressional Budget Office, will increase ... More
  • What's in the Bill -- Read it and Weep
    Mar 19, 2010  - Three weeks ago, at the White House Health Care Summit, President Barack Obama gave Congress six weeks to consider his proposal and chart a course forward. The Democrats are now using every dirty and undemocratic trick in the book to ram this health care bill through Congress. House Speaker Nancy Pe... More
  • Democrats Should Shelve New Taxes and Work With GOP on Alternatives
    Jan 20, 2010  - While the White House keeps changing their job-calculation methods in a desperate effort to claim their so-called stimulus bill is working, Americans are still asking: Where are the jobs? Facts are facts. Last year, the Obama administration and congressional Democrats spent nearly $1 trillion we don... More
  • TARP shortchanges small business as banks hoard cash and don’t loan
    Jun 25, 2009  - On Oct. 3, 2008, the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) was signed into law. At $700 billion, this bank bailout was unprecedented. Perhaps more striking at the time, however, was the complete lack of meaningful guidelines, measurable benchmarks, and strings attached to the bailout money. In essenc... More
  • Heller: Congress Can't Tax Its Way Out of a Recession
    Mar 25, 2009  - Economic recovery is the one issue that should bring Democrats and Republicans together. Nationwide the unemployment rate is over 8 percent. My home state of Nevada has over 10 percent unemployment and leads the country in home foreclosures. Yet, as American families struggle, the administration a... More
  • Roskam: Dim Prospects for Debt
    Mar 25, 2009  -   By: Peter Roskam In these uncertain economic times, many Americans are asking important questions about the nation's finances. Why were taxpayers asked to finance a $700 billion bailout of Wall Street - with up to $750 billion more on the way, according to the president? Is it appropriate ... More