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Do you feel your paycheck isn’t going as far as it used to? That when you go to the grocery store, you’ve noticed your bill is higher, but there are fewer and fewer items in your cart with every trip? (Perhaps you’ve even taken items out while waiting in line at the checkout counter.) And […]
The Business Cycle Balanced Budget Amendment (BCBBA) would limit federal spending to a rolling average of the three prior years’ revenues, adjusted for inflation and population, with a 10-year transition to balance.
The legislation was a boondoggle of wasted spending that Congress must reject in the future. Fox News By Emily Seidel February 14, 2022 Last year, President Joe Biden signed into law the American Rescue Plan (ARP) — a nearly $2 trillion bill sold as a critical boost to a flagging economy, allegedly “focused […]
Congress missing huge opportunity to put USPS on sustainable path. Arlington, VA — Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is raising budgetary alarms about a postal reform bill set for a House vote later this week. The Postal Service Reform Act of 2022 appears to rely on unwise budgetary gimmicks that might shore up the USPS balance […]
COLUMBA, SC — Americans for Prosperity-SC (AFP-SC) unveiled its 2022 Legislative Agenda, which includes priorities to expand access to quality, affordable health care, criminal justice reform, and expand economic opportunity. The 2022 Legislative Agenda is available here. AFP-SC State Director Candace Carroll released the following statement: “Americans for Prosperity is already engaging and seeing our priorities advance […]
The congressional budget process is a mess, and the debate over the “Build Back Better” measure is Exhibit A, writes Americans for Prosperity Senior Fellow for Fiscal Policy Kurt Couchman in a new op-ed. “The taproot of this dysfunction is considering appropriations separately from direct (sometimes called mandatory) spending and revenue,” Couchman writes in The […]
Pennsylvania’s state finances are in serious disarray. Over a period of years, revenues have been on the rise, but spending has risen faster. While our population grew by 10.2 percent between 1970 and 2020, spending per family more than tripled over the same time period. State budgets have increasingly relied on a range of short-term […]
Congress and the White House are struggling to come up with a plan to address the impending breach of the debt limit. But as Kurt Couchman, senior fellow for fiscal policy at Americans for Prosperity, writes in a new op-ed in The Hill, the debt limit is not so much a problem in itself as […]
Dear Senators, On behalf of Americans for Prosperity activists in all 50 states, I urge you to vote “NO” on H.R. 3684, the so-called Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework. Bipartisanship should not be an excuse for bad policy, but that’s what this bill is. H.R. 3684 is not focused on roads and bridges – it’s a wasteful […]
