The fallout from the Supreme Court decision on Obamacare is still being felt, reviewed and examined. Indeed, we’ll be dealing with it for many years to come. I still wonder if there might be some silver lining shining through from Chief Justice John Roberts’ decision. I maintain that Roberts did all of us a good […]
In a recent essay for the Wall Street Journal, Mr. Alan Blinder makes a partisan diatribe for more government while claiming he is for less. His is an outstanding piece of convoluted Keynesian economic propaganda. Near the end he tells the reader he wants a more neutral tax system under which “… the allocation of […]
Replace ‘rose’ with ‘tax’ and ‘sweet’ with ‘rotten’ and – well, you get the idea: And from Forbes: ObamaCare’s 7 Tax Hikes On Under $250,000-A-Year Earners No. 1. The Individual Mandate Excise Tax. Starting in 2014, anyone not buying “qualifying” health insurance must pay an income tax surtax. It goes up each year until 2016 […]
It was obscured somewhat by the shadow of yesterday’s ruling on Obamacare, but the U.S. House of Representatives made history of its own, voting to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress. It was the first time a sitting member of a president’s cabinet has ever been slapped with that sanction by the […]
The response to the Obamacare ruling has been fascinating, but I’m not sure how correct much of it has been. The immediate reaction from most conservatives was that John Roberts has turned out to be another David Souter…a weasel forced on us by another President Bush. I think that in reading Roberts’ decision you can […]
Yesterday, the Supreme Court upheld the 2,700 page monstrosity of a law commonly called “ObamaCare,” reminding us all that the third branch of government is still government. To those of us unimpaired by a law degree, it did not seem like a difficult question: where, precisely, does the Constitution empower the federal government to mandate […]
You would think that keeping that old car running would qualify very well for ‘sustainability’ tax credits or some gold stars from the Reuse and Recycle crowd, wouldn’t you? After all, keeping that old car means not ditching more metal into the junkyard where old cars go to die. I’m not wasting money on trading […]
As the loving father of a beautiful little girl with disabilities, I can tell you that you’ll never meet someone who is more concerned with issues of accessibility. My princess Julia may be nine-years-old but she functions at the level of a toddler about 18-months-old. Julia does not speak and she is just learning to […]
Chief Justice John Roberts, the SCOTUS with the allegedly most-est conservative leanings, sided with the Supremes liberal left today in upholding a large bulk of President Obama’s Affordable Health Care Act. This from Fox News: In a 5-4 decision, the court ruled as constitutional the so-called individual mandate requiring most Americans to obtain health insurance […]
What happens to the deficit? It could go down according to ‘many’ respected observers. It could go up according to ‘many’ other respected observers. You are going to hear the Democrats wail about how repeal of the mandate is going to ‘increase the deficit’. Republicans will say that it will ‘decrease the deficit’. ‘(I don’t) […]
