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Obama’s health care proposal increases taxes on middle class
Tue, 02/23/2010 - 1:02pm | posted by Jason Pye
As you probably know, President Barack Obama released his health care proposal yesterday (you can read it here), outlining what he sees as “reform,” in attempt to bridge the divide between the House and Senate versions of the bill:
The White House today unveiled President Obama’s health care overhaul bill, which it says will expand health insurance to 31 million more Americans and reduce the federal budget deficit by $100 billion in the next 10 years.
The White House also released the changes Obama wants to see in the Senate Democratic health care bill. Even before its release, the White House’s plan had already met with fierce Republican resistance.
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Administration officials call the health care bill a “starting point” point for Thursday’s televised, bipartisan discussions on health care overhaul.“I think it’s a starting point in as much… as Republicans come to Thursday’s meeting with constructive proposals that they’re willing to discuss,” White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said today.
Obama made sure to pander to his constituencies, such as labors unions, and while the Cornhusker Kickback is gone, other vote buying provisions, such as the Louisiana Purchase and the Medicaid provision for Florida, are still included in the proposal.
ATR finds new tax hikes from ObamaCare
Tue, 12/22/2009 - 12:59pm | posted by Jason Pye
The guys over at the Americans for Tax Reform have gone through the health care “reform” bill and found 18 different tax hikes to bring in billion in new revenues that won’t even pay the plan, ranging from the individual and employer mandates to an excise on comprehensive health plans and early health savings account withdrawals.
Three conservatives get behind plan to bring Gitmo detainees to Illinois
Mon, 11/16/2009 - 7:12pm | posted by Jason Pye
Former Congressman Bob Barr, David Keene of the American Conservative Union and Grover Norquist of the Americans for Tax Reform (all members of the Constitution Project) are getting behind a proposal that would move detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to a prison facility in Illinois.
Here is the statement from Barr, Keene and Norquist:
As it moves to close Guantanamo and develop policies for handling terrorism suspects going forward, the government should rely upon our established, traditional system of justice. This includes our system of federal prisons, which have repeatedly proven they can safely hold persons convicted of terrorism offenses.
We are confident that the government can preserve national security without resorting to sweeping and radical departures from an American constitutional tradition that has served us effectively for over two centuries.
Civilian federal courts are the proper forum for terrorism cases. Civilian prisons are the safe, cost effective and appropriate venue to hold persons convicted in federal courts. Over the last two decades, federal courts constituted under Article III of the U.S. Constitution have proven capable of trying a wide array of terrorism cases, without sacrificing either national security or fair trial standards.
Likewise the federal prison system has proven itself fully capable of safely holding literally hundreds of convicted terrorists with no threat or danger to the surrounding community.
The scaremongering about these issues should stop.
“Gang of Ten” Has 6 Who Broke The National Taxpayer Protection Pledge
Mon, 09/15/2008 - 7:03pm | posted by Brett Bittner
I would like to take this opportunity to call out the following Senators to explain their actions as a part of the “Gang of Ten,” and how their involvement in this legislation broke The National Taxpayer Protection Pledge. Saxby Chambliss, Johnny Isakson, Ben Nelson, Lindsey Graham, John Thune, and Bob Corker, what does this pledge mean to you? The Americans for Tax Reform is quite specific with the wording:
I pledge to the taxpayers of the _____ district of the State of _________ and to the American People that I will:
ONE, oppose any and all efforts to increase the marginal income tax rates for individuals and/or businesses; and
