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2009 Newsletter Archive
- How will cap-and-tax affect your state?
August 21, 2009
A new study released by The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis reveals the tremendous costs and energy price spikes that each state will incur should Congress enact the Waxman-Markey climate change legislation.
- Fact-checking the White House on health care
August 19, 2009
The Obama administration recently launched a taxpayer-funded Web site to “reality check” credible criticisms and arguments against big-government health care. So The Heritage Foundation is fact-checking the White House.
- The Left fights back on Obamacare
August 13, 2009
Across the nation, Americans have turned out at town-hall meetings with their Congressmen to question the wisdom of the Left’s health care plan. In response, some liberals are vocally attacking Obamacare’s critics.
- More taxes for everyone
August 6, 2009
The national deficit stands at an unprecedented $1.845 trillion. President Barack Obama’s proposed budget would increase spending by an additional $1 trillion over the next 10 years. And that doesn’t take into account Congress’ proposed $1 trillion takeover of the health care system.
- The Left’s ‘public option’ is no option
July 31, 2009
“Americans just aren’t buying President Obama’s all gain, no pain, health care claims,” Heritage Foundation expert Conn Carroll reports. That’s because more and more Americans are finding that President Obama’s “public option” would be, as Heritage President Ed Feulner writes in Townhall.com, the “only ‘option.’”
- Spending spiraling out of control
July 29, 2009
“All parts of government are growing,” especially the federal budget, argues Heritage Foundation economist Brian Reidl in a new Heritage report on runaway government spending (link in PDF).
- Obamacare slowed, not stopped
July 24, 2009
Speaking on national television Wednesday night to bolster support for government-run health care, President Obama again called on Congress to pass health care legislation before lawmakers leave town in August. This press conference was part of the administration’s multi-faceted strategy to counter declining public support for this sort of “reform.”
- America ‘at the edge of catastrophe’
July 21, 2009
“We are living at the edge of catastrophe,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told a Heritage Foundation audience Monday, and we can only recover with a sound national security strategy.
