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04/25/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

Obamacare claims its first major exchange casualty as health insurance giant UnitedHealth bails over unsustainable costs

(BigGovernment.news) President Barack Obama’s signature legislation continues to unravel and has now claimed its first major health insurance victim. Top officials at UnitedHealth, the nation’s largest health insurer, said earlier this week the company would begin pulling out of most of the insurance exchanges crated by Obamacare by 2017 because it can no longer offer sustainable […]

04/22/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

Federal judge makes it official: The IRS is an ‘untrustworthy’ rogue agency that targets political enemies of the administration

(BigGovernment.news) Many Americans already suspected that the Internal Revenue Service, weaponized as a political machine by the Obama White House, was not an agency that could be relied upon to do the right thing, constitutionally and statutorily, when it came to interaction with taxpayers. And now, a federal appeals court judge has officially confirmed our […]

04/21/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

Waste not, want not: Report exposes hundreds of BILLIONS every year in duplicate govt. spending

(BigGovernment.news) There is no better entity on the face of the planet for wasting valuable taxpayer resources than the U.S. government, as a recently released report proves yet again. In fact, the government wastes hundreds of billions a year on duplicate spending, even as Congress and the president rack up trillions in debt and turn tone-deaf ears […]

04/20/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

Goodlatte bill would scrap most of the federal tax code so we could start all over again with a fairer system

(BigGovernment.news) There is nothing quite so confusing and confiscatory – of wealth and liberty – as the U.S. tax code. But there is rising sentiment in Congress and on the presidential campaign trail to dramatically simplify and reform the way the government funds itself – reform that would no doubt devolve power from one of […]

04/19/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

BLEEDING OUT: Insurers warn their Obamacare losses are unsustainable but the prez won’t budge

(BigGovernment.news) Critics of Obamacare have long said that once the law was fully implemented, it wouldn’t take long before the private insurance market began to hemorrhage money at a pace they could not sustain. That time has arrived. As reported by The Hill, health insurance companies are ramping up warnings regarding the financial sustainability of […]

04/18/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

Sens. Cruz, Lee take aim at Justice Department’s anti-business ‘Operation Chokepoint’

(BigGovernment.news) Efforts to block or even eradicate the Justice Department’s controversial “Operation Choke Point,” which targets businesses the administration doesn’t like, have been numerous and frequent in the House of Representatives, but the issue didn’t seem important to the GOP-led Senate. Until now, that is. As first reported by The Daily Signal, GOP Sens. Ted Cruz […]

04/15/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

No, our government did not get leaner and more efficient in 2015

(BigGovernment.news) Just in case you wanted to believe that President Obama kept a 2012 promise to pursue a “leaner and more efficient government” as he ran for reelection, here’s a sad reminder to let you know that he didn’t. Obama had help in his failure, however: Congress didn’t do much to accomplish that goal, either. […]

04/14/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

Spendthrift EPA is now paying contractors to do nothing

(BigGovernment.news) When it comes to waste, fraud and abuse of taxpayer money, the federal government has several superstars. One of them is the Environmental Protection Agency, which now appears to be paying contractors just for the heck of it. As reported by the Washington Free Beacon, the EPA has about $3 million tied up with […]

04/13/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

TIME BOMB: $3.4 trillion pension funding shortfall threatens to bankrupt cities and leave millions shortchanged

(BigGovernment.news) U.S. public pension systems throughout the nation face a mindboggling $3.4 trillion funding deficit that is putting tremendous financial pressure on cities and states to either dramatically cut back on spending and services or raise taxes big time in order to avoid bankruptcies and defaults. As reported by the Financial Times, academic research shared […]

04/12/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

Is the U.S. Supreme Court about to give Americans back their property rights?

(BigGovernment.news) For more than four decades property owners in the U.S. have had little recourse against encroachments against them by various federal agencies who increasingly abused legislation like the Clean Water Act to force various policy priorities on landowners. These encroachments have been on steroids under the Obama administration, as evidenced by the issuance of […]

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