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MACDONALD: A Little Education FAFO

June 1, 2026 Steve MacDonald

The public school system is a jobs program for progressives. A local “franchise” of the Big Government expansion machine. The one that creates problems so it can grow itself and use your money to pay them to help progressives stay in power. The war on poverty, the war on drugs, every moral call to war … Read more

Roper: How to Fund Your Donors With Tax Dollars

July 8, 2025 Rob Roper

State Sen. wants constituents to pay for her policy failures In a recent VT Digger article with the misleading headline, “Clean Heat Standard is Dead. What comes next?” (It’s not, it’s just temporarily dormant until it can be fully implemented), Senator Anne Watson (D/P -Washington) expressed her hope and desire that the state be sued … Read more

A New Beltway Intrigue: Follow the Biden EPA Money

March 18, 2025 James Varney

When the Biden administration announced $27 billion in environmental grants last April, it set the clock ticking on a predicament: how to get the unprecedented sums for the President’s envisioned NetZero future out the door before the fiscal year ended on Sept. 30? The task was complicated by the fact most of the money – $20 … Read more

Student Loan “Forgiveness” is Just More Taxpayer Money Laundering into Democrat Campaigns

August 30, 2022 Steve MacDonald

If you’re interested in vote-buying forgiving college loans isn’t actually all that clever an idea. A majority of those people are already voting for you. So why do it? Why would Joe say (without authority) that he will forgive student loan debt on paper or as a cash payoff?

[Update] The Transportation Climate Initiative is DEAD [and Buried]

November 21, 2021 Steve MacDonald

[Update] Yesterday, we reported on the death of the Transportation Climate Initiative (below), another taxation without representation scheme that would milk motorists to fund progressive boutique climate interests.

Sununu: “If there’s dollars out there from the federal government, you bet we’ll take them…”

July 20, 2021July 18, 2021 Steve MacDonald

One of my pet peeves is politicians who talk about fiscal responsibility or spending or tax cuts but who happily, if not greedily, accept federal money with open arms. Chris Sununu is petting my peeves, if you catch my drift.