Tag: Editorials

According to a Cato Institute study, welfare pays more than a minimum-wage job in 35 states. (AP File)

Examiner Editorial: Cato study points to overly generous welfare system

Washington Examiner · August 19, 2013 4:00 am

Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., left, and Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, R-Utah, right, recently assured their senatorial colleagues that nobody will know for 50 years who proposed what concerning which tax credits and deductions should be kept and which should be killed. (AP File)

Examiner Editorial: Tax reform debate should be open for all to see

Washington Examiner · August 18, 2013 4:00 am

John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers Union, discusses the coal industry's current economic plight in a speech before governors of coal-producing states in 1956. (AP/Byron Rollins)

Examiner Editorial: Labor hero John L. Lewis must be spinning in his grave

Washington Examiner · August 17, 2013 4:00 am

Americans know that a college education is essential for obtaining a high-paying career, so demand keeps increasing. (Thinkstock)

Examiner Editorial: College costs too much because there’s no competition

Washington Examiner · August 15, 2013 4:00 am

The Department of Housing and Urban Development issued new data reporting regulations in July. (Thinkstock)

Examiner Editorial: New HUD rules open floodgates for lawsuits

Washington Examiner · August 13, 2013 4:00 am

President Barack Obama reaches for a pen to sign the health care bill, Tuesday, March 23, 2010, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obamacare ‘navigators’ program invites massive fraud

Washington Examiner · August 13, 2013 4:00 am

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin once declared that "in this war on poverty, poverty is winning." (Examiner/Graeme Jennings)

Examiner Editorial: New tactics are needed to win the war on poverty

Washington Examiner · August 11, 2013 4:00 am

Examiner Editorial: Why Obamanomics doesn’t work

Washington Examiner · August 11, 2013 4:00 am

Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Examiner Editorial: It’s time for Harry Reid to go home

Washington Examiner · August 9, 2013 4:00 am

Despite tax credits and a host of other programs designed to promote electric vehicles, consumers remain uninterested. (AP File)

Energy and Environment

Examiner Editorial: Consumers still not charged up about electric vehicles

Washington Examiner · August 8, 2013 4:00 am

At its most basic, the IRS scandal was precipitated by the coincidence of will and opportunity to use the tax agency to silence Tea Party groups, other conservatives and evangelical advocates during the 2010 and 2012 campaigns, or to put them at a disadvantage using the campaign finance regulatory section of the tax code. (AP File)

Examiner Editorial: End the IRS’ role in regulating political speech

Washington Examiner · August 7, 2013 4:00 am

Obama speaks about the economy during a visit to Phoenix, Ariz., on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Examiner Editorial: Has Obama learned nothing from his past housing failures?

Washington Examiner · August 6, 2013 4:00 am