This Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation video explains why a value-added tax would be a dangerous money machine for big government. The evidence from Europe also shows that VATs actually lead to higher income taxes. www.freedomandprosperity.org
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By TEVI D. TROY AND JEFFREY H. ANDERSON | Posted Monday, August 31, 2009 4:30 PM PT
Decades of data confirm a simple truth: If we want to lower health costs, we need to put consumers back in charge.
Only two basic ways exist to cut costs: putting consumers in charge and letting them pursue value; putting the government in charge and letting it ration care.
Many people now feel like second-class citizens when they enter the doctor’s office. That’s because everyone in the office knows that the patient isn’t really the payer — that the patient doesn’t hold the purse strings. (more…)
President Obama changes course on the stimulus. Where are the jobs? House Republicans offer a real plan to create jobs and get our economy moving again.
President Obama on Wednesday answered questions on rising costs, taxing benefits, and many other issues during an ABC News special on health care reform, “Questions for the President: Prescription for America.” Cato Institute scholars Michael D. Tanner and Michael F. Cannon respond to Obama’s claims. Learn more about health care reform at http://healthcare.cato.org
#tcot #tlot Call your congressman (202-224-3121) about HR2454
Let them know you are against another oppressive tax, especially in the midst of a deep recession! The Energy Tax bill (HR2454) goes to the floor for a vote on Friday (June 26th).
Are you wondering why things aren’t improving, why you have that queasy feeling in your gut as you watch your fellow workers getting laid off. Are you losing sleep as you worry about what you will do if your position is the next to go?
The following column by Dick Morris may help you understand. Put yourself in the shoes of a business owner or CEO and see if you can relate.
More than anything else, business needs a predictable environment if it is to create jobs. Changes in the regulatory environment and the tax code make it almost impossible for businesses to make investments.
Yet President Obama seems to ignore this reality. Each day’s news brings another bold and far-reaching proposal to change the fundamentals of the US economy. And each time he indulges his personal ideology with such a pronouncement, businesses all over the world cut back on their planned investment until the dust settles. (more…)
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