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Update: Michigan Union Thugs
More informaiton here, here and here.
Glenn Reynolds comments: We need to identify this guy and make an example of him. And his union bosses. I’ve pledged $1000 toward the reward fund.
Sounds like a great cause to me.
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Tax Migration
An Embarrassing Metric Disappears
Since 1991 the Internal Revenue Service has been compiling statistics on filers’ addresses, which the agency’s Statistics of Income division uses to show who is moving into and out of every county and state in the nation. As you’d expect, the IRS also knows the aggregate income levels of those who move. So the movements of the most fundamental productive components of the economy — taxpayers — can be analyzed by journalists and economists, or could until now.
Sticking your head in the sand doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. Which brings me back to the fiscal cliff. Raising taxes on the top 2%, or the rich, or however you wish to define it, is simply NOT going to raise the expected revenue claimed by those who wish to raise it.
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Glenn Reynolds: SAY, MAYBE MAYOR BLOOMBERG AND HIS “PUBLIC HEALTH” FOLKS SHOULD TURN THEIR ATTENTION FROM SODAS TO ACTUAL PUBLIC HEALTH
Study Shows Soaring STD Rates In Many Areas Of New York City
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“This kind of came out of the blue and was a surprisingly large amount…”
Obamacare amateur hour: New insurance fee in health overhaul law likely to hit consumers
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David Harsanyi: Fiscal cliff? We’ve already taken that dive.
Our potential unfunded liabilities, what our government has promised to spend on entitlement programs in the future and won’t have money to pay, are estimated to total anywhere from $87 trillion to $100 trillion. That doesn’t even include Obamacare’s unseen costs.
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Detroit entitlement culture
Apparently alive and well, at least among the incompetent ruling class. Fox 2 News Headlines
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Obamacare Jumps the Shark in its Premiere
Expect health mandate happy Colorado to have some of the highest Obamacare rates in the nation. Of course, who will Progessives turn to to fix the high rates? Well of course the same people who are responsible for them, State (and Federal) government and Dept of Insurance. Of course, if someone else is helping you pay your insurance premiums, what does it matter how much it costs? >
We have that same issue with health care costs. If someone else is paying what concern is it? We need price and cost of mandate discovery.>
You reap what you sow Progressives.
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Glenn Reynolds: Perhaps voters should have chosen differently, then . . . .
Polls: Nation that re-elected Obama wants more spending cuts than tax hikes, still hates Obamacare
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Thank you, kids!
Barron’s letter to the editor via Paul Mirengoff at Powerline blog One generation got old; one generation got sold
A Warm Thank You
To the Editor:This 50-something, white, conservative Republican wishes to thank America’s youth for sacrificing their financial futures and standard of living so that boomers, such as my wife and I, can look forward to a long and comfy retirement, which we could easily have afforded on our own. Now we have the youth as our guarantors and providers of a little something extra.
As reported by the national exit poll conducted by Edison Research, Americans aged 18 to 29 voted 60% to 36% for Barack Obama. Prior to Obama’s re-election, I believed that it was morally wrong for my generation to pass a crushing national debt on to the next one.
The debt will top $20 trillion before Obama moves out of the White House, and it will include spiraling retirement-related costs that the administration has shown zero interest in bringing under control, largely driven by baby boomers piling into the Social Security and Medicare systems.
With the president’s electoral crushing of Mitt Romney, my overriding sense of morality and guilt have vanished. Thank you, kids!
Edwin D. Schindler
Woodbury, N.Y.
Paul adds some comments.
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Paul Mirengoff: Obama to Republicans: my offer is this, nothing
Even Times reporter Jonathan Weisman seemed taken aback by the White House’s position. He described the offer as “loaded with Democratic priorities and short on detailed spending cuts.” As far as I can tell, however, there are no detailed spending cuts. Obama did propose some upfront cuts in programs like farm price supports but, according to Weisman, did not specify an amount or any details.
The decision to present this absurdly one-sided proposal comes straight from the Obama playbook. Recall that the president has presented budgets so ridiculous that they could not garner even one Democratic vote in Congress. Republicans then presented detailed budgets that, unlike the president’s, actually address the debt crisis. Obama responding by demagoguing the Republican cuts.
Republicans shouldn’t play this game again. They should tell the White House to eliminate the stimulus spending and the proposal to end Congressional control over statutory borrowing limits, and to propose detailed and significant spending cuts. If the White House declines to do so, Republicans should walk away.
Krauthammer: Geithner Proposal ‘Insulting’
With this proposal we have a fiscal cliff either way. Progressives will gloat about a tax hike on the “rich” but that good feeling will last about a month or two.
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Medicaid: Denver Post finally receives wake up call on Medicaid expenses
Wow, the editors at the Denve Post finally get the message: Sticker shock on Medicaid costs Interesting how the psuedo intellectual liberals at the Post ignored this issue until there were reports from “Foundations” such as:
- Kaiser Family Foundation
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Earth to the Denver Post editors, this is NOT news. Next thing we know, there going to figure out that funding is being cut significantly for Medicare Advantage. More then likely they won’t figure that out until some “Foundation” writes a report.
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Not good for an entitlement society: U.S. Birth Rate Hits Record Low
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If this is news to you, hate to tell you, but you haven’t been paying attention. Obama’s Tax Increases Fund Government for Eight Days
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Fearing a tripling of dividend tax rates next year, companies have found one-time payouts and early payments of quarterly dividends as a way to beat some of the impact of the “Fiscal Cliff.”
Special Dividends: Companies Shelling Out Billions to Beat the ‘Fiscal Cliff’
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Health Insurance Exchanges
In general, health insurance exchange amateur hour is coming to a state near you.
For Colorado residents, the State has been on a mission to create an exchange from before the word “go” so the actual exchange operation may turn out ok.
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