What to look for in our next representatives

With the news that the US Senate voted yesterday to preserve its ability to earmark legislation (both Domenici and Bingaman voted to keep the pork coming), thus providing for often wasteful spending back home, often called “pork,” I thought my recent article from the Las Cruces Sun-News on how those running to represent New Mexico [...]

ABQ Journal’s Insightful Editorial

Today’s Albuquerque Journal contains a very insightful editorial (subscription needed) about the way government operates.
The article discusses the US Conference of Mayors’ request for more federal spending on local police which the Journal points out is a core function of government. The editorial contrasted police, something cities should fund, with projects like Mayor Marty’s [...]

Show me the money!

The federal government has announced the early launch of USASpending.org, an online portal to help you find out how your federal tax dollars are being spent. The website ensures that information about all federal grant and contract spending above $25,000 is published online for ordinary citizens to review.
This is a monumental achievement for transparency in [...]

Mid-session Budget Review: Strong Revenue Growth Continues

The Office of Management and Budget has published its “Mid-Session Budget Review.” To sum the situation up:
- Federal tax revenues continue to be very strong, having risen by 7 percent. This comes on the heels of increases of 15 percent and 12 percent the past two years (clearly tax cuts are helping the economy);
- [...]

Congressional Democrats’ Latest Tax Hike Proposal

Congressional Democrats are hoping to pass a tax hike on cigarettes in order to pay for still bigger government. While billions in tax hikes were removed from the Energy Bill by Senate Republicans, the latest tax hike to increase funding by $50 billion for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program , also called SCHIP.
Of course, [...]

The Struggle to Limit Earmarks Continues

Despite having won electoral victory in part by campaigning against the abusive use of earmarks, Democrats on Capitol Hill seem to lack the will to take substantive action to reform the earmarking process.
Of course, as Novak reports in the article I linked to above, the Republican leadership doesn’t really want earmark reform either. Alas, yet [...]

Where’d the Pork Go?

It looks like there is some good news coming from Congress for a change. No, Nancy Pelosi has not embraced the flat tax…the news is not that good, but for the first time in recent memory, the number of earmarks passed by Congress actually fell according to the newly-released “Pig Book” from Citizens Against Government [...]

Earmarks and Lost Funding

The Journal’s Outlook section contained an interesting article about the fact that New Mexico has lost some earmarks that were supposed to be coming from Washington. The author quoted several recipients of federal largesse who worried about the impact such relative restraint in Washington giving the impression that somehow New Mexico is “losing out.” Of [...]

Will Bush Raise Taxes?

In my humble opinion, one of the few bright spots of President Bush’s Presidency has been the tax cuts that have reduced the burdened the federal government places on hard-working Americans. That is why it is very unnerving to hear that the Administration is now talking with Democrats about forcing more taxpayers and small businesses [...]

The Streetcar Line Is Changing!

Suddenly the councilors and mayor are sounding fiscally responsible:
Mayor Martin Chávez and City Council President Martin Heinrich said Saturday they will seek to repeal tax changes that would have financed a streetcar project.
In separate interviews with the Journal, Chávez and Heinrich said they are backing away from the streetcar project for the time being.
Each called [...]

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