New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s effort to enact a $15 minimum wage could push the state’s home healthcare agencies to the brink of bankruptcy, according to a new report by Crain’s New York Business. Cuomo’s endless pandering for the big union bosses could end up costing New Yorkers their quality healthcare. The most detrimental impact […]
VIDEO: New Judicial Crisis Network Web Ad Pits Biden Against Democrats On #SCOTUS
In 1992, while still Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, then-Senator Joe Biden laid out a principled case for how the Senate should handle a Supreme Court vacancy in a Presidential election year. The Washington Post said that Biden offered “rebuttals to virtually every point Democrats have brought forth” on the current Supreme Court fight.
Irony Alert: Congressional Democrats Find New Labor Department “Overtime Rule” They Support Totally Unfeasible
While Congressional Democrats have been constant with their support for America’s increasingly irrelevant labor unions, the new overtime rule promulgated out of the Obama Administration’s Department of Labor has proven to be financially unfeasible even for their Congressional staff budgets, according to Bloomberg BNA: That leaves House Democrats in a unique bind. They largely favor […]
SEIU’s Real Goal For Fight For $15 Movement Is Not $15 Minimum Wage
The $15 minimum wage continues to divide Democrats. Despite being endorsed by big labor like the SEIU, which backs the Fight for $15, Clinton refuses to support a $15 minimum wage. Bernie Sanders is the real advocate for the Fight for $15 movement, as he is a vocal supporter of a $15 minimum wage. In […]
New Dept. of Labor Report: Labor Unions Struggling To Remain Relevant To American Workers
Yesterday, the U.S Department Of Labor reported that union bosses are struggling to reverse years of union membership decline: The union membership rate–the percent of wage and salary workers who were members of unions–was 11.1 percent in 2015, unchanged from 2014, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The number of wage and salary […]
Reports On Tax Foundation’s Analysis Of Hillary Clinton Tax Plan Alarming
A study by the Tax Foundation released today found Hillary Clinton’s tax plan would “lower wages and cost the country more than 300,000 jobs.” Several news reports on the analysis highlighted major tax increases and a slowing economy. Politico reported the analysis done by the foundation shows “almost $500 billion in tax increases”: Though Clinton’s […]
Senator Slams Obama Administration’s Co-Op Failure
Sen. Rob Portman called the ObamaCare Co-Ops “failed enterprises” that wasted $1.2 billion during today’s Senate Finance Committee hearing. Sen. Portman was questioning former UnitedHealth executive and current acting head of CMS Andy Slavitt regarding the oversight of the co-ops. At least 740,000 individuals and small businesses were negatively affected by the twelve co-ops that […]
AR2 Statement On Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe’s Embarrassing Economic Development Fiasco
AR2 today issued the following statement on the Roanoke Times investigation published this weekend detailing how Governor Terry McAuliffe’s administration relied on a phony Chinese website and failed to do basic due diligence before sending $1.4 million in Virginia taxpayer dollars to a shady Chinese company in a failed economic development deal in Appomattox County, […]
Policy Analyses Show Sanders’ Health Plan Bad For Anyone Paying Taxes
Bernie Sanders’ announced details of his health care plan over the weekend and they are dismal for anyone paying taxes. The non-partisan Tax Policy Center predicted Sanders’ plan would be the largest tax increase since World War II. And it would slam the middle class: American Action Forum notes the health care plan would require […]
Bernie Sanders Doubles-Down On $15 Minimum Wage Despite It Killing Millions Of American Jobs
In tonight’s Democratic presidential debate in South Carolina, Senator Bernie Sanders repeatedly called for raising the minimum wage to $15 despite economists on both the left and right warning about the potential for massive job losses as a result. In fact, according to a study published this past summer, raising the minimum wage to $15 […]