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• More to Be Thankful For

  
  Cato @ Liberty — 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 ...
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• ObamaCare Cost-Estimate Watch: Day #158

  
  Cato @ Liberty — 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 ...
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• Newsweek: Exposes how AARP Screws Youth

  
  Future Majority - - blogging progressive youth politics — 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 ...
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• More Right Wing Money for Youth Groups

  
  Future Majority - - blogging progressive youth politics — 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 ...
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• Politicians As Prognosticators

  
  Constitutionally Right — 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, ...
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• Should the Government Pay for Christian Science?

  
  Cato @ Liberty — 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 ...
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• Would ObamaCare Kill Medical Innovation?

  
  Cato @ Liberty — 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 ...
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• ObamaCare Cost-Estimate Watch: Day #157

  
  Cato @ Liberty — 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 ...
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• At Least 100 Reasons to Worry That Congress Won’t Follow Through on the Hard Choices in Health Care Reform

  
  EconomistMom.com — 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 ...
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• Cash-For-Cloture

  
  Conservative Compendium — 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.
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• Headed For Disaster

  
  All Da King's Men — 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 ...
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• The Case Against College Entitlements : Why We Don’t Need More Public Funding For Higher Education

  
  Prepare For College — 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 ...
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• Congress Considers Steep Death Tax Increase

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

  
  Prepare For College — 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 Foundry — 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, ...
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• What Will the Reid Bill Cost?

  
  Cato @ Liberty — 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 ...
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• Reid Health Bill Perpetuates the $1.5 Trillion Fraud

  
  Cato @ Liberty — 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 ...
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• Higher Medicare Tax Latest Proposal to Fund Health Care Takeover

  
  The Foundry — 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 ...
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• Labor Boss: We have Lambourghini (not Cadillac) Health Plans

  
  LaborPains.org — 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: ...
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• Congress and Big Labor Conspire to Raise Taxes on Non-Union Retirement Plans

  
  The Foundry — 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 ...
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