Federal government waste has been a problem since the Republic's founding. Yet the goverment manages to find new, creative, and in this case potentially dangerous, ways to fritter away your tax money
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House Republicans have unveiled their proposed budget, and it includes a number of spending reductions and reforms that are long overdue.
Presidents of the United States do quite well for themselves once they leave office. So well, especially in recent years, that some in Congress have tried to curb the amount of taxpayer money handed out to ex-presidents. A bill even passed in 2016 that would have applied modest curbs on ex-presidents' expenses.
Many states have jumped on the sales tax holiday bandwagon. For a few days each year, selected items, be they for school supplies, disaster preparedness, or a host of other products and services, states suspend sales tax collections to boost sales, and issue press releases touting their generosity.
One of the less heralded successes of the Trump administration has been rolling back the burdens of federal regulations.
Quietly, the Trump administration appears to be carrying out a key campaign promise: slowing down, and rolling back, the wave of burdensome federal regulations.
The President's forthcoming budget proposes a number of spending cuts that could, if enacted, reduce the size of bureaucrats retirement packages:
Continuing our theme of generous taxpayer -funded perks and pensions, this piece takes a look at the billions spent every year on the federal workforce.
