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Ken Buck: The National Debt Is Making Life In America Unaffordable
Columnist Ken Buck writes, "The average American will pay nearly $650,000 in interest fees over the course of their life, according to a recent study. As the national debt goes up, rates go up, and borrowing costs go up."
Ken BuckJune 17, 2026
Ken Buck: It's Time to Stop Shielding College Endowments
Columnist Ken Buck writes, "Colleges these days look more like major corporations rather than not-for-profit places of learning. The top 20 richest colleges -- all but three of which are private -- sit atop over $500 billion of savings."
Ken BuckJune 10, 2026
Ken Buck: Exxon Shareholders Reward Bold Leadership
Columnist Ken Buck writes, "Last week ExxonMobil shareholders voted overwhelmingly to relocate the company’s legal headquarters to Texas. The decision marks an undeniable rebuke of New Jersey’s corporate tax scheme, the highest in the US at 11.5%."
Ken BuckJune 04, 2026
Ken Buck: Mamdani's First 100 Days — When 'Tax the Rich' Meets Reality
Columnist Ken Buck writes, "Socialists need capitalists' money to keep the 'warmth of collectivism' burning. As much as Democrats might hate to admit it, they need successful individuals to fund their radical agenda, even as they demonize them."
Ken BuckMay 28, 2026
Ken Buck: Kentucky's Electoral Lesson — The Price of Fiscal Accountability
Columnist Ken Buck writes, "Tuesday night's results in Kentucky's primary reveal the cost of principled leadership that puts our country's financial health ahead of party dogma. Massie may not be heading back to Washington next year, but he sure put his country ahead of his ego, and he deserves our gratitude for it."
Ken BuckMay 20, 2026
Ken Buck: California's Warning To America — How Much Socialism Is Too Much?
Columnist Ken Buck writes, "The question isn't whether California will learn from its mistakes and correct course. The question is whether voters will wake up and realize this socialist tax-and-spend agenda is knocking on our door -- and whether we will fight to stop it."
Ken BuckMay 13, 2026
Ken Buck: Not For Sale
Columnist Ken Buck writes, "That money shapes politics is a truth as old as the republic. What's new is the scale of it. A small class of ultrawealthy leftist donors now flood Washington with cash, routed through shell companies and opaque nonprofits engineered to obscure its source."
Ken BuckMay 06, 2026
Ken Buck: DOGE 2.0 — Can Congress Finish What Elon Musk Started?
Columnist Ken Buck writes, "DOGE sparked a movement. It invigorated projects that have uncovered flagrant government waste -- from Minnesota's $9 billion of handouts to Somali swindlers, to California fraud that could cost residents $425 billion."
Ken BuckApril 29, 2026
Ken Buck: Bankrupting America's Safety Net — Social Security's 7-Year Warning Light
Columnist Ken Buck writes, "For generations, Americans have dutifully paid into Social Security with the fair expectation the money they pay now will be there for them when they reach retirement. There's just one problem: The program is going broke."
Ken BuckApril 21, 2026
Ken Buck: Tax Day Reminds Us That We Are All Government Employees
Columnist Ken Buck writes, "Americans will collectively spend almost 12 billion hours of uncompensated time preparing their income tax returns this year, on top of the $2.66 trillion they will fork over to the federal government."
Ken BuckApril 14, 2026
Ken Buck: Who's Really Funding The Socialist Movement In America?
Columnist Ken Buck writes, "The ultra-wealthy -- names like George Soros and John Arnold -- have long pumped money into Washington to advance the left's agenda. But these latest efforts take dark money to a new level, and, worse, they do so by cheating the tax system."
Ken BuckApril 08, 2026
Ken Buck: Accountability Is A Patriotic Duty
Columnist Ken Buck writes, "Americans are experiencing the ugly reality of big government, often without even realizing it. Every day, taxpayers lose billions of dollars to fraud."
Ken BuckMarch 25, 2026