Spending Archives - Page 8 of 29

Waste-to-energy is the solution to the trash problem

December 6, 2019December 6, 2019 Doug

Regarding the recycling center in Gilford, this whole project has been a boondoggle of the highest degree. As the entire recycling industry crashes and burns, Gilford dives in headfirst … to an EMPTY pool. Once again, government is a day late and a dollar short in providing a “solution” to a “problem” that doesn’t exist, … Read more

Hear Ye, Hear Ye! – NH City Wants to add $125.5 Million in New Public Debt

December 6, 2019 Steve MacDonald

We’re not confident the local media is going to alert taxpayers of this public hearing, so we’re going to do it for them. Monday, Dec. 16th at 7 PM, the city of Nashua will hold a hearing to authorize bond sales to the tune of 125.5 million dollars.

Property Taxes – We must live within our means, and that means making hard choices.

December 5, 2019 Norm Silber

If you are a Gilford property owner, you have just received your property tax bill. Happy? Sad? Angry? Did you notice that, while the total tax rate dropped by less than 7%, the portion of the total tax rate represented by the school tax rate increased (as it usually does) from the prior year?

National Debt Will Choke Economic Growth

November 28, 2019

We knew or should have known this. About two months ago the Federal Reserve had to step into the markets. It bailed out the banking system yet again. The Fed was acting to bail out the nation’s money markets. The money markets were experiencing a liquidity crisis.

22.1 Million Illegal Immigrants

November 20, 2019November 19, 2019

An MIT-Yale study of government data finds the current population in the country to be 22.1 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. That means we currently have an illegal alien population of about 6.7%. That’s more than one in every 20 people in the country is here illegally. The number of illegal immigrants in the … Read more

South Dakota Taxpayers shell out $450k to Declare “We’re on Meth”

November 19, 2019 Jim Kofalt

File this under #GovernmentFail… a shining example of just how badly people can screw something up when they are spending other people’s money, for the purported benefit of someone else. (See Milton Friedman’s Four Ways to Spend Money.)

Lieawatha Fauxcahontas is 1/1024th Right in Her Campaign Claims

November 4, 2019November 4, 2019

Leisure suit Lizzie Warren is second in the national polls. She is ahead in New Hampshire. Many in the media consider Fauxcahontas the current Democrat favorite.

We are in Silly Season

November 1, 2019

The Democratic presidential candidates just keep selling new government programs. Sure it is lying season on the campaign trail. But at some point, somebody has to ask: How are you going to pay for that?

Manchester Alderman Worries About Teachers Pay – BOSC Says Show Me the Money!

September 20, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Special Committee on Negotiations Chairman Richard H. Girard took issue with an email sent by at-Large Alderman Daniel P. O’Neil, Chairman of the Board of Aldermen, about the status of negotiations with the city’s teachers.

Exposing Compromised Elected Officials Who Defend NH Public School Monopolies

September 5, 2019September 4, 2019 Steve MacDonald

The Sununu administration, led by its able and innovative Commissioner of Education, Frank Edelblut, has made great strides. By enacting legislation that promises to allow parents to choose educational options that best meet the needs of their children (despite bitter opposition from public school administrators and their teacher union fellow travelers.) SB 8 (2017), “the … Read more

Government Spending Reform

August 22, 2019

The issue Higher taxes are not the solution to our out-of-control spending. Taxes are over $3 trillion this year. Our deficit will be over $1 trillion. Raising all taxes by one third only allows us to balance the budget. How ugly is that? It would not allow us to put a dent in our debt. … Read more

Congress kicks the can again, but is about to run out of road

August 21, 2019 Op-Ed

By Ross Connolly Congress was set to face a moment of reckoning in September. After years of reckless spending, the government would once again come up against the debt ceiling, meaning the country could no longer borrow to pay for out-of-control expenditures. This could have been a moment to begin getting serious about our mushrooming … Read more

Democrats want to take stuff away from you – Case #1: #VolinskyAgenda

August 13, 2019 Skip

Yep, Andru Volinsky. The guy that removed local control of Education via the Claremont decision. School boards and citizens rail that the State puts too many mandates on them (like HB142 – I’m still hoping some lawyer will make me a plaintiff in a lawsuit against it) – blame current Exec. Councilor Volinsky who is … Read more

He’s Lost CNN Again – Fact Checker Tosses Bernie Under the Health Care Bus

August 12, 2019 Steve MacDonald

It’s fun to watch the left take sides between lefties. They are all on the left of course. Mostly far left. But still, in the end, there can be only one. And it looks like CNN is not picking Bernie Sanders. Again?

Administration Orders Freeze of Undesignated Foreign Aid

August 8, 2019

The Trump administration has ordered two federal agencies to freeze foreign aid spending. The freeze in spending is “pending the agencies’ review.” There are between $2 billion to $4 billion dollars’ worth of congressionally approved funding involved. Who, What, When… The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) ordered the State Department and the U.S. Agency … Read more

Do It For The Kids

July 28, 2019

The recently announced spending and lift the debt ceiling deal is bad deal for Americans’ future. Congress continues to abdicate its responsibility manage the nations purse responsibly. It’s failing to protect the future of the nation. Congress refuses to discharge its constitutional duty. It is not keeping America safe from the economic and national security … Read more

Spend Early, Spend Often, Give Up Your Freedom

July 25, 2019

The spending deal agreed to by congressional leaders and the President is appalling. We simply have to stop spending money we do not have. The operating debt currently stands at $22.5 trillion or $68,500 for every person in the country. This deal if implemented will accelerate the growth of the debt. The pocket full of … Read more

Just Say No to The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2019

July 24, 2019

The President and congressional leaders have announced a recent spending deal. If acted upon we will see trillion dollar deficits until further notice. Can you say brain dead? This agreement has nothing to do with budgeting. Call it what it is. It is a spending authorization agreement. The deal… The deal called the Bipartisan Budget … Read more

Servitude Is Alive and Well in America

July 23, 2019 Op-Ed

by Kevin Scully |

The Democrats have successfully reintroduced indentured servitude to American society by creating three classes of government serfs. The vote-slave, the wage-slave, and the debt-slave.

We Got More Checks… Just There’s No Money In the Account

July 22, 2019

Authorizing spending is not the same thing as making a budget. If you don’t recognize a responsibility to not spend more than you take in, it is not a budget. The United States has not had a budget in more than a decade. The federal government is behaving like a teenager with a checkbook. It … Read more