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• The High Cost of European Union Bureaucracy

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 738
  The clever folks at the Taxpayers Alliance in the United Kingdom have a new video documenting some of the wasteful European Union programs that are imposing a heavy burden on average people.
  9 hours ago

• Federal Assumption of Medicaid Costs

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 738
  From the standpoint of Americans who prefer less government, one of the worst developments of the 20th century was the federal subsidization of state and local spending. The result has been bigger government at all levels . Medicaid represents the largest portion of federal money to the states. The states administer ...
  9 hours ago

• How To Get Multiple VA Loans Simultaneously

  
  All Home Loan Info — Authority: 130
  A majority of loan applicants for VA Loans question if they can get additional loans under the VA Loan Guaranty Program.  The answer is yes, you can use your VA loan as many times as you necessary when you have the entitlement.  Entitlement is available to those who are eligible for VA Home loans. The amount a ...
  1 day ago

• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
  2 days ago

• In Congress, Ignorance is Strength

  
  Count Us Out — Authority: 151
  by Edward Cline, 11/14/09I open this commentary with the introduction to my previous commentary, “The Mainstream Smearing of Ayn Rand.” The disparity in subject is not so irrelevant as one might presume, but I won’t dwell on that matter. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi looked like a deer caught in the ...
  2 days ago

• Its not that we dont love big government...we just dont wanna pay for it

  
  swimming freestyle — Authority: 483
  “The country faces a fundamental disconnect between the services the people expect the government to provide, particularly in the form of benefits for older Americans, and the tax revenues that people are willing to send to the government to finance those services.”  Douglas Elmendorf , Director of the ...
  3 days ago

• Congress Looks to Insert Itself into the Debt "Problem"

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 134
  Ugh oh, a recent article in National Journal (subscription required) quotes several members of Congress, including Senate Budget Chair Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND) and Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA), expressing strong interest in the creation of a bi-partisan debt-reduction commission with binding recommendation powers to ...
  3 days ago

• The JSON Schema Behind the Entitlements Service

  
  DocTeger — Authority: 113
  What better day than Friday the 13th to write about the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) schema used by the Entitlements Service to write the privilege objects returned by Those DarlinOpenSSO REST Policy Evaluation Interfaces . JSON is relatively easy to read and understand. According to Introducing JSON , it is ...
  3 days ago

• The Case Against College Entitlements : Why We Don’t Need More Public Funding For Higher Education

  
  Prepare For College — Authority: 155
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• Souring On Government

  
  Conservative Compendium — Authority: 476
  Now that we’ve forced the debate, Americans are turning against the idea that government should be responsible for guaranteeing insurance for all.  A recent Gallup poll reveals: The primary change has been among Republicans and Republican-leaners. For years a surprising number on the right answered ...
  3 days ago

• Non-Profits Shouldn’t Fight to Save Their Tax Subsidies

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 764
  Congress soon will seal the fate of federal death taxes. If Congress acts by doing nothing, then the federal tax rate on estates will fall to zero for all of 2010 before rising to 55 percent on January 1, 2011. That’s current law. On the other hand, it could pass legislation to set the tax rate above zero for 2010. ...
  4 days ago

• Pelosi: Sure It’s Fair To Send Americans To Jail For Not Having Insurance

  
  Constitutionally Right — Authority: 123
  The absence of a denial to the question, and the subsequent admission of the “fairness” of the policy to jail Americans for not having health insurance means Democrats will not be able to play this off as a right wing scare tactic . Stone: Do you think it’s fair to send people to jail who don’t buy health ...
  4 days ago

• A generation raised to expect breakfast

  
  Collecting My Thoughts — Authority: 445
  The man in front of me at Paneras today (fabulous bakery items, in case youve never been there) was buying a delicious selection of breakfast goodies--dense in calories and nutrition. In jest I said something like "You must be really hungry today." "These are for my employees. I love to see their smiles and they ...
  4 days ago

• Meddling Is What Rewards Congressmen With Campaign Funds

  
  Conservative Compendium — Authority: 476
  Single issue organizations are prone to making an effort to tie major news items to their agenda in order to piggy-back on the big issues of the day and gain publicity.  I can hardly fault them for it, but when they use faulty logic in an effort to restrict freedoms , I must call them out. Members of Congress who ...
  5 days ago

• ObamaCare’s ‘Sweetheart Deal’ for PhRMA

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 738
  The New Republic ’s Jonathan Cohn reports that back in March, IMS Health projected slightly negative revenue growth for the pharmaceutical industry but recently changed that projection to 3.5-percent annual growth from 2008 through 2013. “What changed?” Cohn asks. “A major factor, according to IMS, was the ...
  5 days ago

• At last, an honest Democrat

  
  Collecting My Thoughts — Authority: 445
  "Mr. [John] Cassidy is more honest than the politicians whose dishonesty he supports. "The U.S. government is making a costly and open-ended commitment," he writes [on the New Yorker web site]. "Lets not pretend that it isnt a big deal, or that it will be self-financing, or that it will work out exactly as planned. It ...
  5 days ago

• Obamacare Will Be a Budget Buster

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 738
  Does anyone think that a huge new entitlement program will lead to lower budget deficits? Sounds implausible, yet proponents of government-run healthcare claim this is the case according to the official estimates from the Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation. To use a technical phrase, this is ...
  6 days ago

• Abortion Funding and Health Care

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 738
  President Obama’s approach to health care reform — forcing taxpayers to subsidize health insurance for tens of millions of Americans — cannot not change the status quo on abortion. Either those taxpayer dollars will fund abortions, or the restrictions necessary to prevent taxpayer funding will curtail access ...
  6 days ago

• NetRight Daily: Health Care is Not Over Yet

  
  Press Releases — Authority: 447
  Health Care:  Not Close to Over :  The narrow 220-215 victory in the House on Saturday night was a step forward on the road to a government takeover of the health care system. But as close and dramatic as that vote was, that was the easy part. The Senate must still pass its version of reform--which will not be the ...
  6 days ago

• Repealing the Death Tax Would Create 1.5 Million Jobs

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 764
  Congress will take up debate on the dreaded Death Tax once again in the coming weeks. It will do so because the Death Tax expires for one year starting January 1, 2010. But like the villain in a horror movie, it will rise from the dead with its full power in tact on January 1, 2011. The one-year expiration will likely ...
  1 week ago

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