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National Financial Capability Month: Is President Obama Setting a Good Example?
Newscom Last week, the President declared April 2013 National Financial Capability Month in an effort to encourage Americans to budget responsibly. This is a commendable goal. However, with the...
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Damaging Policies Add Up to $1 Trillion Tax Increase in Obama Budget (UPDATED)
Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom UPDATE: The official total tax increase in President Obama’s budget is now available in the Treasury Department’s “Green Book.” Treasury scores the total net...
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Morning Bell: 5 Things to Know About the Obama Budget
President Obama finally released his budget yesterday—more than two months late. Heritage experts immediately went to work analyzing the mounds of new spending on education, manufacturing, “clean...
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The IRS, Obamacare, and You: The Taxes
With the IRS under fire for its improper targeting of tea party groups, many Americans have also raised concerns about the agency’s activities relating to Obamacare. This week, we’ll be taking a look...
View Article3 “Kitchen Table” Topics for Obama’s Speech Today
President Obama says he’s ready to get back to the “kitchen table” issues we’re all talking about. After months of focusing on gun control, amnesty for illegal immigrants, and other tangents that do...
View ArticleVIDEO: Rubio Gives 5 Reasons to Defund Obamacare
“There are people in Washington that love to say, ‘We’re against Obamacare.’ How can you be against Obamacare but vote for a budget that funds its implementation when you know the harm that it’s going...
View ArticleANALYSIS | Obama’s Economic Speech: Another Summer Rerun
President Obama traveled to Illinois today to give the same tired, worn-out economic speech he’s been giving for almost five years now. Rather than offering new solutions that could revive the dormant...
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Morning Bell: 3 Whoppers from Obama’s Big Economic Speech
Zbigniew Bzdak/MCT/Newscom President Obama sure was excited about his speech yesterday. He talked for more than an hour in sweeping, grandiose terms about everything that’s happened since he became...
View ArticleReal People Respond: What Does Obamacare Mean for You?
Obamacare opens today. What does that mean to you? Since Heritage launched our billboard in Times Square promoting the message to defund Obamacare, the response has been overwhelming. We’ve received...
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Top 1 Percent Pays Effective Tax Rate Nearly Three Times That of Middle Class
Newscom New data from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) show that President Obama’s much-discussed Buffett Rule, which would require families earning more than $1 million a year to pay an effective...
View ArticleTop 10 Broken Obamacare Promises
Since the passage of Obamacare in 2010, many of the President’s famous promises have been routinely broken. As he so ironically threatened in 2009, “If you misrepresent what’s in this plan, we will...
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Your Money in Pictures: The Top 5 Charts of 2013
As part of our countdown to the new year, here are Heritage’s top five must-see charts of 2013. 5. What If a Typical Family Spent Money Like the Federal Government? While middle-class families are...
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Meet the Billionaire Obama and Reid Listen To
Tom Steyer, co-founder of Advanced Energy Economy, speaks to the delegates on the second night of the 2012 Democratic National Convention. (Photo: Harry E. Walker/MCT/Newscom) You’ve got to hand it to...
View ArticleU.S. Should Borrow Pages from Canada’s Recovery Playbook
The New York Times has announced that the American middle class is no longer the wealthiest in the world. That distinction, the Times claims, now goes to our northern neighbors in Canada. However, the...
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