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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“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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The Tax Foundation issued the following News Release this weekend breaking down how the nearly $1 trillion healthcare bill will be financed: The $938 billion health care reform legislation finalized by Congress yesterday is financed primarily through net cuts to Medicare and an increased Medicare tax on high-income taxpayers, according to the Tax Foundation. The [...]
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During the 2008 campaign President Obama promised Americans that he would make foreigners love America again. Only he didn’t say which foreigners. Paul Haven of the Associated Press reports that Fidel Castro, one of the world’s last communist holdouts, has given high praise to President Obama for his healthcare reform bill: “We consider health reform to have been an important battle and [...]
Paul Caron writes that a tanning salon lawyer has questioned the constitutionality of the tax on tanning services included in the recently passed healthcare bill: I [have] a question about the intersection of taxation and civil rights law. It strikes me that the health care bill which requires that indoor tanning salons charge customers a 10% tax beginning [...]
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“I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”¹ - Barack Obama – If you had any doubts about the collectivist designs of this administration, reading the fine print of Obamacare will assuage them. The New York Times reports that the newly enacted healthcare reform law is, in fact, a wealth redistribution bill: For [...]
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