“It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.” – Samuel Johnson - Greg Mankiw has this from Peter Orzag on the inequality of healthcare in America: Americans are living longer than ever — but, as documented in a recent National [...]
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“One of the consequences of such notions as “entitlements” is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.” – Thomas Sowell – It should come as no surprise that Canadians feel entitled to have their team win [...]
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Shirl Kennedy of Docuticker reports that the IRS has issued Notice 2010-44 Tax Credit for Employee Health Insurance Expenses of Small Employers: The Internal Revenue Service today issued new guidance to make it easier for small businesses to determine whether they are eligible for the new health care tax credit under the Affordable Care Act and how large [...]
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Moms Mabley had more teeth than the health insurance mandate. But Timothy Noah of Slate says IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman has a plan to enforce the health insurance mandate included in the recently passed healthcare bill: Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Doug Shulman seemed to indicate that if you didn’t purchase health insurance and then refused to pay [...]
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Paul Caron posts an excerpt from an article written by Harvard Economist Greg Mankiw that suggests the pro-tax intelligentsia is wrong when it says that Americans are undertaxed: Some pundits, reflecting on the looming U.S. budget deficits, claim that Americans are vastly undertaxed compared with other major nations. I was wondering, to what extent is that true? The most common metric for answering this question [...]
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“You can’t always get what you want.” - The Rolling Stones – Mick Jagger might have been thinking about democracy when he wrote that line. I don’t like the new healthcare bill. I think it’s too expensive and I think it’s bad for the economy. Still, I accept it as the law of the land because it was passed by a majority [...]
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One difference between House Majority Whip James Clyburn and the virtuouso American pianist of the late 50′s and early 60′s, Van Cliburn, is that the former plays only the black keys. We have written before about the archaic antics of the always reliable, utterly predictable and wholly unoriginal Mr. Clyburn. Well, never one to let an opportunity pass to foment racial division, the congressman [...]
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