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AB32 Having a Negative Effect on Today’s Unemployment Rate
A recent Fox & Hounds Daily opinion piece by David Crane, economic advisor to Governor Schwarzenegger attempted to dismiss the contribution of AB 32 to the state’s high unemployment rate. AB 32 is California’s “Global Warming Solutions Act,” a bill signed into law by the governor in 2006 prior to ...
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The Union that Stole Christmas
The holiday season is upon us, but Californias schoolchildren wont be receiving many gifts this yearat least not from their lawmakers or teachers unions. California is poised to become the nations largest school system that will not qualify to compete for $4.3 billion of federal Race to the Top funds. ...
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Why the Senate Bill Must Be Rejected
The president met with fellow Democrats at the White House on Tuesday afternoon and reiterated his position that failing to pass any reform was not acceptable. He campaigned on this promise in 2008 and has stuck to his commitment in his many speeches to the nation. In his remarks on ...
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Sensible Alternatives for Fixing Health Care
Congressional Democrats claim that their health reform effort will deliver higher quality care at lower cost to more people. But their legislative prescription, which relies almost entirely on greater government involvement in the delivery of health care, would fail to accomplish these objectives. Fortunately, there is a better way. With ...
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Reform Plans Could Increase Government Agencies’ Power, Size
Legislative proposals under consideration in Washington, DC could dramatically expand the size and authority of government agencies, and not merely those traditionally focused on health care. While the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) would expand significantly under any of the federal health care reforms currently under consideration, a ...
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‘Reform’ still stinks
Yesterday, the Senate’s Democratic leadership blinked first in its showdown with Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.). Desperate for the crucial 60th vote needed to pass their health-reform package, Senate leaders capitulated to Lieberman’s demands that the bill drop both the public option and a provision to let those aged 55 to ...
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Obama’s forgotten health-care promises
The Baltimore Sun, December 16, 2009 The more details that emerge from health care reform plans coalescing and colliding on Capitol Hill, the more one wonders how President Barack Obama could possibly justify supporting any of them – much less signing one into law. Congressional Democrats are threatening to serve ...
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What Really Happened in 1994
When seeking reelection, the more conservative Democrats usually fare far worse than other Democrats, for the simple reason that they generally run against legitimate Republican opposition in states or districts that can, and do, swing either way. In stark contrast, over the last 20 years, the most liberal third of ...
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Obamacare’s Winners and Losers
So, let’s tally the results: Winners: the federal government (more control) and health insurers (more government-mandated business, in exchange for losing most of their autonomy and ceasing to be private businesses in any meaningful sense), the minority of low-to-middle income Americans who don’t have employer-provided insurance and would henceforth receive ...
AB32 Having a Negative Effect on Today’s Unemployment Rate
A recent Fox & Hounds Daily opinion piece by David Crane, economic advisor to Governor Schwarzenegger attempted to dismiss the contribution of AB 32 to the state’s high unemployment rate. AB 32 is California’s “Global Warming Solutions Act,” a bill signed into law by the governor in 2006 prior to ...
The Union that Stole Christmas
The holiday season is upon us, but Californias schoolchildren wont be receiving many gifts this yearat least not from their lawmakers or teachers unions. California is poised to become the nations largest school system that will not qualify to compete for $4.3 billion of federal Race to the Top funds. ...
Why the Senate Bill Must Be Rejected
The president met with fellow Democrats at the White House on Tuesday afternoon and reiterated his position that failing to pass any reform was not acceptable. He campaigned on this promise in 2008 and has stuck to his commitment in his many speeches to the nation. In his remarks on ...
Sensible Alternatives for Fixing Health Care
Congressional Democrats claim that their health reform effort will deliver higher quality care at lower cost to more people. But their legislative prescription, which relies almost entirely on greater government involvement in the delivery of health care, would fail to accomplish these objectives. Fortunately, there is a better way. With ...
Reform Plans Could Increase Government Agencies’ Power, Size
Legislative proposals under consideration in Washington, DC could dramatically expand the size and authority of government agencies, and not merely those traditionally focused on health care. While the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) would expand significantly under any of the federal health care reforms currently under consideration, a ...
‘Reform’ still stinks
Yesterday, the Senate’s Democratic leadership blinked first in its showdown with Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.). Desperate for the crucial 60th vote needed to pass their health-reform package, Senate leaders capitulated to Lieberman’s demands that the bill drop both the public option and a provision to let those aged 55 to ...
Obama’s forgotten health-care promises
The Baltimore Sun, December 16, 2009 The more details that emerge from health care reform plans coalescing and colliding on Capitol Hill, the more one wonders how President Barack Obama could possibly justify supporting any of them – much less signing one into law. Congressional Democrats are threatening to serve ...
What Really Happened in 1994
When seeking reelection, the more conservative Democrats usually fare far worse than other Democrats, for the simple reason that they generally run against legitimate Republican opposition in states or districts that can, and do, swing either way. In stark contrast, over the last 20 years, the most liberal third of ...
Obamacare’s Winners and Losers
So, let’s tally the results: Winners: the federal government (more control) and health insurers (more government-mandated business, in exchange for losing most of their autonomy and ceasing to be private businesses in any meaningful sense), the minority of low-to-middle income Americans who don’t have employer-provided insurance and would henceforth receive ...
