In an op-ed for Investor’s Business Daily, Grover along with Rep. Wally Herger (R-Calif.) called for the VAT to be taken off the table ASAP. Many in Washington believe the solution to this problem is to raise taxes. Certainly, we must confront the national debt with urgency, but a cycle of higher spending and higher taxes would be a double assault on our future economic prosperity.
John McKinnon of The Wall Street Journal wrote an article about how Congress is contemplating a pension bailout, and how the Alliance for Worker Freedom is trying to stop it. “Using taxpayer funds to pay for private pensions would be a first” for the federal government.”