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Fearing Fed, Stocks Tumble And Major Investor Slashes Expectations
/in Budget and Finance, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller All three major U.S. stock indices fell Friday morning as investors worried that the Federal Reserve’s ongoing campaign of aggressive interest rate hikes would weaken the economy. With Friday poised to be the fourth day in a row of slumping stocks, the Dow Jones Industrial average fell by 1.36%, the S&P […]
New Poll Delivers Some Alarming News For Democrats
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Featured, Government Transparency, Politics, Regulation, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Voters overwhelmingly trust Republicans to manage the economy, a new poll ahead of this year’s midterm elections suggests, while Roughly 52% of voters said that they trust Republicans to manage the economy, compared to 38% for Democrats, while only 1% of respondents said they agreed with the proposals of both parties to manage […]
NOT IN MY BACKYARD: ‘Sanctuary Cities’ Martha’s Vineyard, Chicago, D.C. Total Hypocrites
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, Immigration, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Royal A. Brown III What total HYPOCRITES and liars the socialist lefty NIMBYies with their Sanctuary Cities are – take a look at this sign by the Martha’s Vineyard community which is now saying the 50 illegals flown to them by Gov DeSantis is a “humanitarian crises”; they don’t have shower and other facilities […]
Biden Immigration Polices Impose Crushing Burden on Already-Strained Schools
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Healthcare, Immigration, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Federation for American Immigration Reform $78 Billion Annual Cost for Limited-English Proficient Students Revealed in New Report by FAIR Washington, D.C. — A new report by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) finds that one in ten students in our nation’s public schools are considered Limited English Proficient (LEP), requiring an annual expenditure of […]
Biden Regime Tells Underpaid U.S. Troops Struggling To Feed Their Families To Apply for Welfare While Giving Ukraine’s Military Billions
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, National Security, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report By their fruits you shall know them, and so we know the Democrats are the enemy of the people. By Casey Harper, Western Journal, September 9, 2022: The U.S. army is recommending soldiers apply for SNAP benefits, also known as food stamps, to help cover their rising costs from inflation. The […]
Key Inflation Indicator Remains Sky-High In Another Worrying Sign For Businesses
/in Budget and Finance, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Regulation, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The prices faced by producers rose by 8.7% year-on-year in August as inflation continues to challenge businesses, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). While down from the near-record highs of 11.3% in June, the current price increases were over 4 times the typical rates — between 1 and 3% […]
Unsealed Depositions of Former Obama IRS Officials Lerner and Paz Detail Knowledge of Tea Party Targeting
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Judicial Watch Washington, D.C. – Judicial Watch announced today that it received previously sealed court documents, including depositions of IRS officials Lois Lerner, the former director of the Exempt Organizations Unit of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and Holly Paz, her top aide and former IRS director of Office of Rulings and Agreements, which show that they knew […]
Public Schools Are Spending Money Like Crazy, Despite Sharp Enrollment Declines
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) This pattern of spending is unsustainable. These schools are bleeding money. The public education system has been failing students for years. From misappropriating funds to providing inadequate lessons and passing illiterate students; public schools are losing support. Despite this they continue receiving extensive budgets which do not properly represent enrollment rates, […]
Americans Spent More on Taxes in 2021 Than on Food, Clothing and Health Care Combined
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Featured, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Obscene and wrong. It’s why there was an American revolution and why we were founded as a nation. Worse still, this legal plunder is funding our ruin and the destruction of our most basic freedoms. Americans Spent More on Taxes in 2021 Than on Food, Clothing and Health Care Combined By […]
U.S. Funded Study: Physics is Racist
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics, Science, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report “A $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation funded a 22-page “study” that used Critical Race Theory to argue that physics was racist, in part because it rewards students for getting the right answer and uses whiteboards.” — Luke Rosiak, Daily Wire US Funded Study Claims Physics is Racist Because Students […]
Van Jones: Biden Wants Election to Be about Trump, Not Inflation
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Discover The Networks Monday on CNN’s Situation Room, CNN Political Commentator Van Jones stated that President Biden wants the election “to be a choice between Trump and himself” but that he needs to tell people, “I’m not just going to write you off” if you don’t vote Democrat. Jones said, “I think he’s trying to do something […]
Here’s How Much The Federal Government Has Spent Studying Impact Of Sex Change Meds We’re Already Giving Kids
/in DrRichSwier.com, Healthcare, Politics, Science, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The National Institutes of Health (NIH) spent at least $17,576,200 since 2008 researching the impact of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, NIH records show, drugs that are already widely administered to children who identity as transgender. Researchers used NIH funds to study the impact these medications have on bone density and […]
Hawaii is No. 1 In the World – In Tourist Taxes
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Hawaii Free Press Last month, the website money.co.uk published an article giving our Honolulu a claim to international fame (or infamy). It listed the city as having the highest tourist tax of any city in the world. It noted our 10.25% transient accommodations tax, to which is added 3% county TAT. “That’s already a hefty […]
PODCAST: Help Wanted, IRS, Candidate Must Be Willing to Use Deadly Force
/in Commentary, Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Karen Schoen “The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed […]
FDR Campaigned on Fiscal Restraint in 1932. He Delivered Just the Opposite
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) The 1932 election is perhaps the best example of the rule that prevails all too often in the political world: You get what you voted against. With Labor Day upon us, the summer of 2022 is ebbing as the campaign season kicks into high gear. On November 8, American […]
Biden is Paying Osama bin Laden’s Old Airline to Fly Out Afghans
/in DrRichSwier.com, Featured, Immigration, National Security, Politics, Religion, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Jihad Watch The Taliban are getting rich from the immigration business. And we’re paying for it. Ariana Afghan Airlines used to fly Al Qaeda terrorists from Afghanistan to the Middle East. As a sideline, it also flew guns and drugs on behalf of the Islamic terrorist organization. While Ariana was controlled by Osama bin Laden, it […]
REPORT: Biden’s IRS Handed Prison Inmates Over $1 Billion In COVID Relief
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller President Joe Biden’s Internal Revenue Service (IRS) gave a huge number of prison inmates at least $1.3 billion in COVID-19 stimulus checks, the Washington Free Beacon reported. There are more than 1.1 million incarcerated individuals who took in the stimulus money, according to IRS data provided to the Free Beacon, as part of […]
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Calls for IRS Audits on Lawmakers Who Voted for the Inflation Reduction Act
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report DeSantis! Our voice! He’s a giant. Why shouldn’t these scoundrels suffer the pain they’ve inflicted upon us. DeSantis calls for IRS audits on lawmakers who voted for Inflation Reduction Act By Heather Hamilton, The Washington Examiner, August 31, 2022: Gov. Ron DeSantis suggested every lawmaker who voted to pass the Inflation Reduction Act should face […]
Afghan Refugees in U.S. Are Sending Our Tax Dollars Back to Afghanistan
/in DrRichSwier.com, Featured, Immigration, National Security, Politics, Religion, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Jihad Watch Not actually a surprise. Some countries run their entire economies around remittances, promoting mass migration to America, and then profiting from the money sent back to their families. Once we enabled money to enter Taliban territory, this was inevitable. But this little detail emerges from what is supposed to be a sympathetic […]
What Is Really Behind The Climate Agenda?
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow Authors Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. Bonner R. Cohen, Ph. D., is a senior policy analyst with CFACT, where he focuses on natural resources, energy, property rights, and geopolitical developments. Articles by Dr. Cohen have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Investor’s Business Daily, The New York Post, The […]
Biden Admin Handed California The Power To Mandate EVs Nationwide
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller California instituted a new regulation on Thursday that will ban the sale of gas-powered vehicles by 2035; the rule, which was permitted by the Biden administration, could accelerate the nationwide transition to electric cars. “I don’t think Congress gave that authority to California, specifically to set their own standards for greenhouse […]
U.S. Commits $7,000,000,000 More to the Taliban Despite Severe Human Rights Abuses
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Jihad Watch It isn’t enough that Joe Biden left behind $7 billion (at least) worth of sophisticated military equipment that the Taliban quickly seized. It wasn’t enough, either, that he left Americans to die violent deaths in Afghanistan. Now the Biden administration is discussing giving the Taliban $7 billion more. Biden claims that any money donated to Afghanistan for […]
Biden’s Student Loan Bailout Is a Textbook Example of ‘Legal Plunder’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) The president is attempting to pervert the law and use it for naked clientelism. There’s an apocryphal quote often misattributed to Ben Franklin that goes something like this: “When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.” While we’re not […]
Biden’s Student Loan Dilemma and the Political Business Cycle
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Education, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) Political incentives shape policy decisions, which is why the freeze on student loan payments is unlikely to be rescinded without some forgiveness this close to midterms. The White House recently announced that President Biden’s decision on whether to continue the freeze on student loan payments would come sometime in the […]
LAND OF THE FREE STUFF: New York City Gives Away Cell Phones and Healthcare To Illegals
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Immigration, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Nothing is free, we, the taxpayer are paying for this treason. We are suffering record inflation, skyrocketing food and fuel prices and brutal violent crimes but illegals who break federal laws are being put first in NYC. Hundreds of migrants line up at NYC hospital for healthcare, food, free phones https://t.co/sD2wP7mC9L […]
AUSTIN, TEXAS: School District Pushes Teachers to Take ‘LGBTQIA+ Training’ for Children as Young as FIVE — At Taxpayer Expense
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics, Regulation, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report The fruit of the poisonous tree of leftist indoctrination. It’s a form of murder. What you won’t hear about is the suicide rates for these mostly confused, brainwashed and depressed children over the next twenty years. When is enough madness enough? How long will America sit idly by while this evil […]
VODEO: Drain the Swamp? Repeal The Inflation Reduction Act!
/in DrRichSwier.com, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Graham Ledger Joe Biden is lying about the so-called “Inflation Reduction Act” – an oxymoron if there ever was one. All it does is grow an already bloated federal leviathan. Graham Ledger has a simple, but effective solution to end reckless spending and an out of control fourth branch of government. The “Transformational” Inflation […]
Democrats Passed $7,500 Electric Vehicle Tax Credit, Then EV Prices Were Immediately Raised $7,500
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Politics, Regulation, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Their contempt for you knows no bounds. By: Sara Carter Staff, August 17, 2022: A recent scenario at the Ford Motor Company is the perfect way to explain what Democrats are doing to this country when they pass bills for our “benefit.” On August 9, Senate Democrats passed a bill they praised, […]
Economic Justice Agenda Created with La Raza Group’s Help Gets $113 Mil from HUD
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Judicial Watch An Economic Justice Agenda designed with the help of a leftist La Raza group is getting $113 million from the Biden administration to bridge the racial wealth gap by helping low-income renters achieve homeownership. The taxpayer dollars will flow through the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which is committed to […]
Increasing Inflation to Fight Inflation?
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Jerry Newcombe My wife just came back from a routine grocery store run. She said, “These people are destroying the country.” She wasn’t talking about the store—she was talking about our elite political class that are spending our country into high inflation. And now they are poised to spend even more. They have just […]