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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
Ken Buck: Saving The Safety Net From Federal Waste
Columnist Ken Buck writes, "For years Americans have been fed a line by politicians in Washington that if you work hard and pay your dues to Uncle Sam, the government will provide a network of health care and retirement programs that will take care of you for life."
Ken BuckMarch 18, 2026
Ken Buck: A Tale Of Two Cities — How The Lie Of Socialism Is Hurting America
Columnist Ken Buck writes, "The left would like to convince the public that the American dream has been replaced by a socialist fervor. It hasn't. But progressives continue to try to foist their radical agenda on everyday families."
Ken BuckMarch 10, 2026
Ken Buck: Rising Gold Prices Underscore Uncle Sam's Spending Problem
Columnist Ken Buck writes, "Every U.S. resident is $115,000 in debt, and that number is rapidly climbing. The national debt is growing by $70,000 per second. Interest costs, which exceed national defense spending, are now the fastest-growing piece of the U.S. budget."
Ken BuckFebruary 10, 2026
Ken Buck: Even Newsom Socialists Can't Support California's 'Billionaire Tax'
Columnist Ken Buck writes, "California already has the highest and most progressive tax rate in the country. What does it have to show for it? The state's own analysis forecasts an $18 billion budget deficit this year, which is estimated to grow to as much as $35 billion annually."
Ken BuckFebruary 03, 2026
Ken Buck: Making Greenland Great Again
Columnist Ken Buck writes, "Trump's actions to reassert the United States' military interests and isolate our enemies is exactly the kind of preemptive policy our country, and the world, needs."
Ken BuckJanuary 28, 2026
Ken Buck: Mamdani's Socialist Rhetoric vs. Reality
Columnist Ken Buck writes, "Venezuelans have been living under the realities of socialism for over a decade -- hyperinflation, food shortages, human rights abuses... The list goes on and it hardly reads like the 'warm collectivism' articulated by Mamdani."
Ken BuckJanuary 13, 2026