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Treasury Finalizes Rules For New Retirement Savings Account: The myRA
A new retirement savings vehicle, the myRA (my retirement account), is now one step closer to being available after the Department of the Treasury’s final regulations became effective December 15, 2014. The myRA was first announced earlier in 2014 by…
Are the Democrats allowing Social Security to twist in the wind?
In these waning days of the Democratic Senate, the majority is taking advantage of a muffed procedural maneuver by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to confirm a passel of otherwise stalled executive branch appointees. Carolyn W. Colvin, who President Obama nominated last…
Senate Cancels Vote on Obama Social Security Pick
President Barack Obama’s pick to head the Social Security Administration has run into more trouble after Senate Democrats canceled a procedural vote on her nomination. Obama nominated Carolyn W. Colvin to a six-year term as commissioner in June, and Colvin’s…
House Slashes IRS Budget, Now Up To The Senate
Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen was prepared for the worst and that was pretty much what he got from the House. With just weeks remaining before the new tax season opens, the House walloped the embattled agency with $350…
America Continues to Thrive
Put simply, millions of quiet, determined Americans get up every morning and tune out the incompetence and corruption of their government. They simply ignore destructive fads of popular culture. They have no time for the demagoguery of their politicians and…
Sessions Vows to Fight “Harder Than Ever Before” Against Obama’s Amnesty Funding in Spending Bill
Late Thursday night the House of Representatives passed a $1.1 trillion spending package. Although the legislation takes minor steps to limit funding for Homeland Security through February, the legislation does not take immediate steps to defund President Obama’s recent executive…
How Are Federal Dollars Divided Among States?
Benefits for Americans, chiefly Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, dominate the federal spending that gets transferred to states through grants, contracts and other programs. But among the 50 states and the District of Columbia, there are stark differences in how…
How Obama and Big Spending Republicans Made America the World’s #2 Economy
The news that, for the first time since Ulysses Simpson Grant was President, the United States was not the world’s top economy seemed to barely make a ripple in the establishment media, overshadowed by their obsessive coverage of riots in…
Congress nears vote on $1 trillion spending bill
Congress is quickly approaching a Thursday deadline to keep the government funded, but top lawmakers were prepared to approve a stopgap funding measure if necessary to buy lawmakers more time. “The federal government’s going to run out of money in…
Proposed Legislation Could Boost Benefits for Social Security Beneficiaries
Congressman John B. Larson (D-CT) recently put forward the Social Security 2100 Act, a bill which proposes to strengthen the trust fund and increase benefits for current and future beneficiaries. If passed, the bill would provide a roughly two percent…