CLAIM: President Joe Biden claimed during Tuesday’s State of the Union that the Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act put a monthly cap srcf $35 on insulin costs for Medicare enrollees. VERDICT: Misleading. During Biden’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, he claimed,”Big Pharma has been unfairly charging people hundreds of dollars, four to five hundred dollars a month,”
U.S. Labor Productivity Suffers Biggest Crash Ever Recorded, Labor Costs Soar Most Since 1982
September 22, 2022 by
Productivity crashed over the past year as the economy added workers at a rapid clip even as economic output grew slowly, data from the Department of Labor showed on Tuesday. The productivity of the business sector fell 2.5 percent compared with a year ago, the largest decline ever recorded in data going back to the…
Exclusive: NJ Mayor Pressures Democrat Tom Malinowski to Drop Support for Pelosi-Backed ‘Lower Drug Costs’ Bill
June 20, 2021 by
A New Jersey mayor is urging Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-NJ) to withdraw his support for Democrats’ prescription drug costs bill because of the impact it may have on New Jersey’s biopharmaceutical industry, Breitbart News has learned. Bridgewater Township Mayor Matthew Moench (R) wrote a letter to Malinowski, dated June 9, warning H.R. 3, also known as the…
Housing Starts Crash as Rising Costs Crimp Construction
May 19, 2021 by
Construction of new homes in the U.S. slowed by much more than expected in April as homebuilders held back on projects because prices of materials and labor have been rising rapidly. Private homes were started at a seasonally adjusted, annualized rate of 1.569, a 9.5 percent decline from March, Commerce Department showed Tuesday. Economists had…
Study: Each Resettled Refugee Costs Taxpayers $15,900 a Year.
February 6, 2018 by
The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), a pro-American immigration think tank, issued a study Monday showing a strikingly high price tag for resettling refugees in the United States. When they combined resettlement costs with Medicaid, Food Stamps, public education, public housing, and a bevy of other government programs and benefits, the study’s authors, Matthew […]
Gun Control Fail: ‘Gun Violence’ Costs New York over $5.6 Billion Each Year.
January 23, 2018 by
New York has an “assault weapons” ban, a “high capacity” magazine ban, universal background checks, and “gun violence” costs of over $5.6 billion a year. In other words, gun control is not working in New York, just as it has not worked in Chicago or Baltimore. The annual cost of “gun violence” was put forth […]
French City Cancels Christmas Market, Can’t Afford € 20,000 in Security Costs After ISIS Attacks
December 4, 2017 by
Christmas Tree German Christmas Market Berlin This week, the French city of Lyon announced it would cancel its world-famous Christmas market after seven years, as costs to protect the market against potential terror threats escalated to € 20,000 — a price the city could not afford. Security around Christmas markets in Europe has increased following Tunisian […]
Lockheed Martin CEO Tells Trump Company Plans to Lower F-35 Costs, Add 1,800 US Jobs
January 15, 2017 by
After meeting with President-elect Donald Trump on Friday, Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson said the company is close to a deal to bring down the cost of its F-35 aircraft, and will also be adding 1,800 jobs to its Fort Worth plant. “I certainly share his views that we need to get the best capability […]
Thanks, Obama! Increased Number of Adults Going Without Health Care Due to Costs
November 18, 2016 by
Quick and easy question on this glorious Friday in Donald Trump’s America: What is health insurance if you don’t or can’t use it? Well, basically, health insurance you cannot use is a very expensive monthly payment that is of no benefit to you whatsoever — a punitive tax. Imagine you bought a nice new car, […]
Watch: Hillary Clinton Fails Miserably In Explaining Why A Small Business Owner’s Healthcare Costs Rose $500
May 11, 2016 by
In December of 2015, Hillary Clinton admitted that Obamacare is turning America into a nation of part-time workers. Moreover, she said the law incentivizes people and businesses not to find full-time employment. The statement was spurred by a questioner at a town hall, who was asking why there is discrimination against part-time workers when it […]
GENERAL PAXTON: MORE RISK, GREATER COSTS AND CASUALTIES
March 19, 2016 by
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From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli they’ve been called Leathernecks, earned when Lieutenant Presley O’Bannon and his Marines landed at Derna, Libya to fight the Barbary Pirates. They’ve been called Devil Dogs, earned during World War I during actions in Belleau Woods. They are the few, the proud, our U.S. Marines, […]
Good News: Obama’s GLOBAL WARMING Campaign To Cost $45 Billion A Year In Regulatory Costs
November 1, 2015 by
When the United Nation’s conference on global warming begins in Paris come December, American Action Forum has a friendly reminder: we already regulate greenhouse gases and the Obama administration’s regulatory cost in fighting so-called climate change could cost us $45 billion annually: …[R]egulators have already imposed $26 billion in annual costs to limit GHGs and […]