RSC Update: Where Are the President’s Spending Cuts?
Dec 10, 2012
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From the Chairman Washington, DC is currently absorbed in the question of what to do about taxes and spending next year. House Republicans already approved our plan months ago to stop looming tax hikes and make sensible spending cuts. Then there’s President Obama’s latest proposal. Liberals...
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RSC Update: Obama’s Fiscal Cliff “Offer” Is a Joke
Dec 4, 2012
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From the Chairman The House of Representatives voted months ago to avoid the fiscal cliff by making sensible spending cuts and stopping big tax increases scheduled to take effect in January. This already-passed plan would simultaneously help our economy and serve as a down payment on the big...
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RSC Update: What Black Friday Says About Raising Taxes
Nov 26, 2012
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From the Chairman The annual post-Thanksgiving shopping spree has become an American tradition. It’s also proof that people respond to prices. We like to buy when things go on sale, and we often delay or reduce purchases when prices go up. The price of a day’s work is no exception. Every hour spent...
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RSC Update: Still Thankful
Nov 20, 2012
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From the Chairman The outcome of the presidential race was certainly disappointing, but I remain thankful that I live in a country where we have the right to choose our leaders and to speak our minds. This is still the country founded on the belief that every man and woman has the right to life,...
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RSC Update: Taxes, Debt, and the Parable of the Two Builders
Nov 13, 2012
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From the Chairman You may not have heard, but President Obama was not the only person reelected last Tuesday. House Republicans, running on a conservative message and conservative ideas, received a strong endorsement from the voters. Many great conservatives were also elected to the House and...
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RSC Update: The Smiths Spend WAY Too Much
Nov 1, 2012
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From the Chairman Is it fair to spend so much today that our kids are massively in debt when they grow up? That’s the question facing the Smith family in the video below. Our video may be light-hearted, but the subject is serious. As of this week, it’s been 3.5 years since Senate Democrats passed a...
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RSC Update: Startling Revelations About the Terrorist Attack in Libya
Oct 15, 2012
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From the Chairman Two facts stand out from the hearing the House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform held last week on security failures leading up to the attack on our consulate in Libya last month. 1) The State Department was more interested in portraying the situation in Libya as “normal”...
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RSC Update: Falling Incomes, Rising Prices
Oct 1, 2012
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Data Points If you feel like the last four years have been tough, the data backs you up. While plenty of things have gone up in price (gasoline perhaps most notably), incomes have actually fallen. (Click here for high resolution image) A few points about the chart above, which visualizes these...
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RSC Update: Let’s Apply Welfare Reform to Food Stamps
Sep 24, 2012
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From the Chairman The welfare reforms of 1996 achieved great success thanks to a two-part strategy. Strong work requirements were the first half of the equation. Second, Congress replaced the open-ended entitlement formula for cash welfare with something known as a block grant. In the old system,...
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RSC Update: It’s Not About the Video
Sep 18, 2012
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From the Chairman President Obama and his top aides insist the recent wave of protests and attacks by radical Islamists, which began on the anniversary of 9/11, are spontaneous demonstrations sparked by a YouTube video. While preliminary news reports pointed in that direction, we have since learned...
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