It’s a running joke around these parts (Utah) that a successful business plan for a California company starts with leaving California. The cost of living, rising taxes, and increased government regulation are all combining to make California less attractive, the beaches not withstanding. Now comes this: Stockton, California, a city of around 300,000, has declared […]
B is for Bankruptcy of Stockton, California
April 2, 2013 by Daniel Burton
Filed Under: Entitlement Reform, Fiscal Reform Tagged With: A to Z Challenge, Bankruptcy, California, CalPERS, New York Time, Paul Krugman, Stockton, Stockton California
April Fools or About Face?
April 1, 2013 by Daniel Burton
Today is April first, commonly called April Fools day, so like my good friend Shannon warns, “Trust no one.” Given the inclination of the press to play along, occasionally throwing out outlandish headlines that couldn’t possibly be true, there still comes this, that sounds like it should be a joke, but really, is more likely just […]
Filed Under: Fiscal Reform, Laws and Lawmakers Tagged With: April Fools, Barack Obama, budget, Fiscal Discipline, National Financial Capability Month, White House
To filibuster or not to filibuster…
March 28, 2013 by Daniel Burton
When is a filibuster an effective tool to raise public awareness? And when is it the anti-democratic tool of the minority to stop legislation it opposes? A couple weeks ago, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky took to the Senate floor to speak against the nomination of John Brennan as head of the CIA because Paul opposed the […]
Filed Under: National Security/Intelligence, Second Amendment Tagged With: Barack Obama, drones, filibuster, Gallup, John Brennan, Mike Lee, National security, Rand Paul, Senate, Ted Cruz
TANSTAAFL: Obamacare turns three and the costs continue to tally [Infographic]
March 27, 2013 by Daniel Burton
This week in TANSTAAFL news: it’s Obamacare‘s third anniversary, and, as then Speaker Nancy Pelosi famously said, we had to pass it to find out what’s in it. We’re still trying to find out what’s in it. Today, for your pleasure, a small infographic on the costs that have come with the ironically named Affordable Care […]
Filed Under: healthcare reform, Laws and Lawmakers Tagged With: Affordable Care Act, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Obamacare, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, TAANSTAAFL
A Special Counsel to Investigate Swallow?
March 14, 2013 by Daniel Burton
Utah Legislature set to move authority for a special counsel to LG With the last day of the Utah Legislative Session upon us, Utah’s representatives are set to finally take action to directly investigate the allegation against Utah Attorney General John Swallow. In Senate Bill 289, introduced by Senator Pete Knudson, the legislature would grant […]
Obama would rather campaign than govern [KSL]
March 5, 2013 by Daniel Burton
The following is an op-ed that I wrote and KSL published on its site on March 5, 2013. Of all the political crises coming out of Washington, D.C., in recent years, few demonstrate the dismal state of things like the sequester. The crisis we face is not just the dramatic growth of federal spending, […]
Filed Under: Fiscal Reform, Laws and Lawmakers Tagged With: Barack Obama, campaigning, congress, Democrats, leadership, Repubicans, Sequester, Washington D.C.
Senator Hatch’s anti-tax hike sequester proposal [updated]
March 4, 2013 by Daniel Burton
[Update] Since original publication, Senator Hatch’s Press Secretary was kind enough to both read and comment that the Senator’s proposal is only intended to be a short term fix and that the Senator has proposed more long term solutions to Medicare and Medicaid. The proposal dates back to the end of January and can be found […]
Filed Under: Entitlement Reform, Fiscal Reform Tagged With: Barack Obama, entitlement reform, Federal Budget, Medicaid, Medicare, National Science Foundation, Orrin Hatch, Senate Democrats, sequestration, Washington D.C.
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