By YARON BROOK AND DON WATKINSAyn Rand Center for Individual RightsIn the run-up to the Senate's passage of the health care bill,opponents of ObamaCare denounced it as an unprecedentedexpansion of government control over medicine.They warned of the p
Read more…Yesterday at 3:00 p.m. ET, the Treasury Department updated its calculation of the U.S. National Debt to: $12,031,299,186,290.07. That $12 trillion record high comes just eight months after it hit $11 trillion and is only expected to rise faster consi
Read more…Millions face shrinking Social Security paymentsBy: Stephen OhlemacherThe Associated PressAugust 24, 2009Millions of older people face shrinking Social Security checks next year, the first time in a generation that payments would not rise.The trustee
Read more…http://www.heritage.org/Research/SocialSecurity/bg1827.cfmMarch 2, 2005by David C. JohnBackgrounder #1827Social Security is probably the most popular federal program, yet most people know almost nothing about it. In practice, Social Security’s comple
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