During an interview this morning on Fox News Channel, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) outlined the troubling unconstitutional aspects of the financial rescue plan. Heritage’s legal scholars yesterday outlined the constitutional infirmities that remain.
By popular demand we are posting the text of the provision in the House bailout bill that requires Treasury to divert 20% of all profits away from taxpayers and to left-wing advocacy groups like the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). SEC. 105. RIGHTS; MANAGEMENT; SALE OF TROUBLED …
After Secretary Paulson released his first bailout draft, we enumerated some threshold constitutional issues that the proposed legislation failed to pass. The latest House bailout draft not only fails to address these concerns, it actually creates brand new ones. The most glaring problem with the original proposal was the lack …
It is only fair for taxpayers to expect to benefit if hundreds of billions of dollars of their money is used to purchase poor quality debt from financial services firms. However, taxpayer profit sharing must be carefully structured to avoid endangering the economy’s recovery by discouraging firm’s to participate in …
In the previous post we enumerated what any financial clean up legislation must have to earn conservative support. But as important as federal action is, there is a strong possibility that further government intervention will only make the situation worse. To make sure this does not happen, and deal must …
According to Rasmussen Reports only 30% of Americans currently support a government clean up of the financial system. The reason why? 50% of Americans “say it’s better for the government to let the companies that made financial mistakes go bankrupt.” As a general rule, we agree with this principle. However, …
Yesterday before the Joint Economic Committee, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke made a clear case as to why federal action is needed: home mortgages and car loans had become harder to get, commercial credit was becoming scarce for many businesses and consumer spending had already declined. Leaders in both parties …
