The road to chaos is paved with the Government's good intentions.

Cuba has been going through a summer of discontent. Thousands of protestors have emerged to condemn the dictatorship’s mishandling of the economy and its continuing food shortages, blackouts, and massive COVID outbreaks. The anguished cries for freedom against the severe, miserable living conditions are the greatest in years.

On behalf of FreedomWorks’ activist community, I urge you to contact your representative and senators ask them to co-sponsor the Retirement Freedom Act, H.R. 1166 and S. 275, introduced by Rep. Gary Palmer (R-Ala.) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). The bill would decouple Social Security benefits from Medicare Part A enrollment, allowing individuals if they so choose to opt-out of Medicare Part A without losing access to their Social Security benefits. It also codifies a step taken by the Trump administration, which is now at risk under the Biden Administration.

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An aggressive political battle over the shape of your retirement is beginning in Washington D.C.

Just when it seems we will never have congressional cooperation again, a new bi-partisan proposal has emerged with the laudable goal of encouraging retirement security.

Georgia is in the news these days, as hundreds of millions of dollars pour into the state for two runoff elections on January 5th that will determine control of the U.S. Senate. The fast-growing, friendly Peach State will get even more attention in the weeks and months ahead.

Politics and economic decisions have consequences. It is breathtaking to consider how little focus has been shed on the Biden tax proposals and the impact on our savings.

The race to roll out the fifth generation (5G) of mobile technology has been raging for quite some time. As with just about everything, America is playing and is playing to win. The good news is that we’re doing rather well. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has freed up more spectrum for private use and innovation than ever before. Speeds are up and prices are down.

If you used your free time on Saturday or Sunday to watch football, you may have seen an ad run by Joe Biden’s campaign in which the narrator says that Biden won’t raise taxes on anyone earning less than $400,000 annually. The ad perpetuates the myth that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was a “tax cut for the rich.” As Chris Edwards of the Cato Institute notes, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act “provided the largest percentage tax cuts to the bottom two quintiles—that is, the bottom 40 percent of U.S. households.”