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  • More to Be Thankful For


    Cato @ LibertyAuthority Authority: 746
    In a new study , Glen Whitman and Raymond Raad demonstrate that America leads the world in medical innovations that ease and extend our lives. And in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal , Melinda Beck details some of the health care advances that we should give thanks for this Thanksgiving Day: • Fewer Americans ...
    1 day ago
  • ObamaCare Cost-Estimate Watch: Day #158


    Cato @ LibertyAuthority Authority: 746
    House Democrats introduced the first complete draft of President Obama’s health plan on June 19 . Since then, Congress has spent 158 days considering the Obama health plan without ever laying eyes on a complete cost estimate . The House passed its version without one. And the Senate has begun floor consideration ...
    2 days ago
  • Newsweek: Exposes how AARP Screws Youth


    Future Majority - - blogging progressive youth politicsAuthority Authority: 529
    Ive been getting a little bit of pushback from the piece posted yesterday about entitlement spending , right wing orgs funding youth groups, and the weekend conference "Exploring the Millennial Generation’s Return on Investment" hosted in part by Mobilize.org. Mobilize reminded me that AARP was also part of the ...
    2 days ago
  • More Right Wing Money for Youth Groups


    Future Majority - - blogging progressive youth politicsAuthority Authority: 529
    This morning I got an email from myImpact.org announcing that theyd received support from the Peterson Foundation and Mobilize.org for a social media project they intend to do. This was announced at the Mobilize.org event "Exploring the Millennial Generation’s Return on Investment" a conference announced earlier ...
    2 days ago
  • Politicians As Prognosticators


    Constitutionally RightAuthority Authority: 127
    President Obama promises he will not sign a health care bill that is not defecit neutral. Harry Reid assures us that not only is his plan defecit neautral, it will actually reduce defecits over the next 10 years. The Congressional Budget Office has signed of on Reid’s plan as reducing defecits, and as we know, ...
    3 days ago
  • Should the Government Pay for Christian Science?


    Cato @ LibertyAuthority Authority: 746
    Leaders of the Church of Christ, Scientist, are pushing to get a provision into the health care bill that would mandate equal treatment for “spiritual healing,” such as Christian Science prayer treatments. Sens. John Kerry and Orrin Hatch are trying to get it inserted into the Senate bill, according to the ...
    3 days ago
  • Would ObamaCare Kill Medical Innovation?


    Cato @ LibertyAuthority Authority: 746
    Medical innovation — new discoveries that make medical care better and less expensive — is the most important kind of health care reform. In this new Cato study , Glen Whitman and Ray Raad show that the United States leads the world in medical innovation — and that President Obama’s health plan would likely ...
    3 days ago
  • ObamaCare Cost-Estimate Watch: Day #157


    Cato @ LibertyAuthority Authority: 746
    House Democrats introduced the first complete draft of President Obama’s health plan on June 19 . Since then, Congress has spent 157 days considering the Obama health plan without ever laying eyes on a complete cost estimate . The Senate has called up its version for floor consideration without a complete cost ...
    3 days ago
  • At Least 100 Reasons to Worry That Congress Won’t Follow Through on the Hard Choices in Health Care Reform


    EconomistMom.comAuthority Authority: 513
    Hooray! Tonight we’re one step closer to getting a deficit-neutral health care reform bill that has at least some hope of “bending the health cost curve” in the future. Oh wait, maybe not… As David Broder worries about in his Sunday column in the Washington Post (emphasis added): I have been writing ...
    4 days ago
  • Cash-For-Cloture


    Conservative CompendiumAuthority Authority: 431
    Michelle Malkin is collecting a list of bribes for wayward Democrats in need of “convincing” to vote for Harry Reid’s so-called health care reform legislation.  The bribes include $100 million for the vote of Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu. No related posts.
    4 days ago
  • Headed For Disaster


    All Da King's MenAuthority Authority: 419
    A recent report by the Government Accounting Office (GAO) describes Americas long term fiscal outlook: Weaknesses in the economy and financial markets—and the government’s response to them—have contributed to near-term increases in federal deficits, which reached a record level in fiscal year 2009. While a ...
    5 days ago
  • The Case Against College Entitlements : Why We Don’t Need More Public Funding For Higher Education


    Prepare For CollegeAuthority Authority: 158
    President Barack Obama has declared that his administration aims to make college affordable to everyone by greatly expanding government aid to middle class families. The Washington Post says that Obama’s higher education proposals, which include creating a brand new Pell Grant entitlement, “could transform the ...
    5 days ago
  • Congress Considers Steep Death Tax Increase


    The FoundryAuthority Authority: 772
    Leaders in the House of Representatives recently discussed the possibility of extending the death tax at its current rate and exemption levels for one year through 2010 . If this proposal becomes law it would be a massive tax hike. Under current law, the death tax has a top rate of 45 percent and an exemption of $3.5 ...
    5 days ago
  • The Case Against College Entitlements : Why We Don’t Need More Public Funding For Higher Education


    Prepare For CollegeAuthority Authority: 158
    President Barack Obama has declared that his administration aims to make college affordable to everyone by greatly expanding government aid to middle class families. The Washington Post says that Obama’s higher education proposals, which include creating a brand new Pell Grant entitlement, “could transform the ...
    6 days ago
  • The Dirty Job That Congress Won’t Do on Its Own


    The FoundryAuthority Authority: 772
    Congress needs someone like Mike Rowe to do the dirty job that politicians won’t touch. Our $1.4-trillion (and rising!) annual deficit and $12-trillion accumulated debt are not caused by the economy. They’re caused by runaway spending. Unable or unwilling to specify and enforce spending cuts on their own, ...
    6 days ago
  • What Will the Reid Bill Cost?


    Cato @ LibertyAuthority Authority: 746
    Michael Cannon has some astute analysis of the Senate health care bill below . I posted these thoughts at Politico’s Arena : According to the Chamber of Commerce polls , strong majorities in every state they polled believe the health care bills will increase the deficit. In this case the public’s cynical ...
    1 week ago
  • Reid Health Bill Perpetuates the $1.5 Trillion Fraud


    Cato @ LibertyAuthority Authority: 746
    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has finally unveiled his massive 2,074-page health care bill .  The Congressional Budget Office reports that the insurance-expansion provisions would cost the feds $848 billion over 10 years.  To raise those funds, the bill would tax wages, medical devices, prescription ...
    1 week ago
  • Higher Medicare Tax Latest Proposal to Fund Health Care Takeover


    The FoundryAuthority Authority: 772
    The latest proposal to pay for a government takeover of the health care system is to increase the Medicare tax for those that earn more than $250,000 a year . This latest proposed tax hike shows Congress is desperate to find more revenue to pay for its excessively expensive health care plan. The current Medicare tax ...
    1 week ago
  • Labor Boss: We have Lambourghini (not Cadillac) Health Plans


    LaborPains.orgAuthority Authority: 122
    On Saturday in St. Louis, at a union saturated conference on single payer health care systems, Jerry Tucker was a little too honest about the value of a union-negotiated health plan. The following video comes courtesy of some pounding the pavement by Blogger Bob McCartey . Who is Mr. Tucker?  McCartney explains: ...
    1 week ago
  • Congress and Big Labor Conspire to Raise Taxes on Non-Union Retirement Plans


    The FoundryAuthority Authority: 772
    The AFL-CIO, in conjunction with some Congressional leaders, has proposed yet another tax hike. This latest conspiracy between Big Labor and the government would be a 0.25 percent tax on all stock trades . Curiously enough, this new tax would target the pensions of the AFL-CIO’s own members. That is unless they ...
    1 week ago

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