Cecil County Spending Project

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by Neal McCluskey Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate This testimony was delivered on March 20, 2012. Chairman Durbin, members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to speak with you today. My name is Neal McCluskey and I am the associate director of the Center for Educational Freedom at the Cato Institute, a nonprofit, non-partisan public policy research organization. My…

Posted by Chris Edwards House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) has introduced his annual budget blueprint. The plan will likely pass the House but won’t become law this year. However, the plan signals the direction that House Republicans want to go in budget battles with the Democrats this year, and it also shows the likely thrust of policy under a possible Republican president next year. Here are a few highlights: Total federal…

Recently, the Cecil County Commissioners took a public stance against the shift of teacher pension costs from the state of Maryland to the counties. The first reaction of most would be to agree with this opinion and oppose expensive hand-me-downs from the state of Maryland. However, could this situation actually be a blessing in disguise for fiscal conservatives in this county?

01/03/12 of last month the Cecil County Commissioners voted unanimously to buy a farm for preservation purposes costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars — was this really what we want government to spend money on?  Cecil County Commissioners and County Executive candidates Tari Moore (who made the motion) and Diana Broomell (who seconded the motion) supported this as did Mullin, Dunn, and Hodge.  If our county had a regulatory and tax…