Opinion
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SCOTUS Nominee Kavanaugh’s Health Care Opinions Spotlighted
Opinion -health-care-news -Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump's newest nominee to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court, is likely to be questioned at length about his opinions on health care. -
Many More Medicaid Recipients Could Work, White House Reports
Opinion -health-care-news, News -A new report from The Council of Economic Advisors finds 60 percent of working-age, non-disabled Medicaid recipients work less than 20 hours per week, and the authors suggest Congress pass a law requiring states to place work requirements on Medicaid. -
CMS Submits Proposed Rule Changes for Fee-Based Services
Opinion -health-care-news, News -The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued proposed rule changes to provide Medicare beneficiaries with greater access to fee-based primary care practices. -
States File New Documents in Obamacare Challenge
Opinion -health-care-news -The state challenge to Obamacare moves forward with supplemental documents filed and opening arguments set for sometime in September to decide if the law can be suspended while the legal challenge is being decided. -
Obama Carbon Colonialism and Climate Corruption Continue, Part 1
Opinion -Editorial -USAID still pushes climate alarmism over energy, jobs, health and prosperity for poor countries. -
Health Care Costs Continue to Increase as Percentage of GDP
Opinion -A Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee report states Health Care accounts for about 17 percent of GDP, with the cost of Medicaid alone rising from the original $222 per user in 1965 to $7,973 in 2016, a 3,491 percent increase. -
New York Assemblyman Proposes Janus ‘Workaround’
Opinion -school-reform-news, budget-tax-news -New York state Assemblyman Richard Gottfried (D¬¬¬–Manhattan) announced he will sponsor a bill to allow public-sector unions in the state to receive taxpayer funding to reimburse the costs of collective bargaining and contract administration. -
Numerous Texas School Staff Members Earn Six-Figure Salaries, Study Finds
Opinion -school-reform-news, budget-tax-news -Some 7,000 Texas government school staff and teachers account for $1 billion in annual costs to local and state taxpayers, a new report states. -
U.S. Oil, Natural Gas Output Break Records
Opinion -environment-climate-news -U.S. crude oil and natural gas production set new records in March, data released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration show -
Adam Putnam’s Liberal Policies Are Dooming His Florida Governor Run
Opinion -Editorial -Adam Putnam once had the brightest future in Florida politics. Not anymore. -
Bartow County, Georgia Exits Medical Transport Business
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Bartow County, Georgia commissioners have privatized their public ambulance service. -
Domino’s Pizza Delivers Infrastructure Grant for Fitchburg, MA
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Domino’s Pizza is donating $5,000 to the City of Fitchburg, Massachusetts to fund pothole and road infrastructure repairs in the city. -
Trump Revokes Obama Ocean Policy
Opinion -environment-climate-news -President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) scrapping his predecessor’s ocean policy and replacing it with one de-emphasizing federal bureaucratic control of coastal waterways and adjacent lands. -
Florida Voters to Consider Tax Hike Supermajority Question
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Florida voters will decide in November whether to approve the creation of a constitutional requirement making it more difficult to raise taxes. -
Mountain View, California Voters to Consider ‘Jobs Tax’
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Voters in Mountain View, California will consider whether to increase the local business license tax in this November’s election. -
Chicago Alderman Proposes UBI Experiment
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Chicago alderman Ameya Pawar (D–Ward 47) is calling for the city government to study the idea of a government-administered universal basic income (UBI) pilot program to provide 1,000 families with a $500 payment every month. -
California Gov. Brown Signs Grocery Tax Moratorium
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Gov. Jerry Brown of California signed a law temporarily prohibiting cities and counties in the state from enacting new grocery taxes or increasing existing levies on groceries, including sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs). -
Ohio Lawmakers Consider Online Travel Tax Change
Opinion -budget-tax-news -The Ohio House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee is considering a bill that would raise taxes on online travel vendors. -
New York City Puts New Regulations on Housesharing
Opinion -budget-tax-news -An ordinance targeting peer-to-peer short-term housing arrangements has taken effect in New York City. -
South Boston, Virginia Proposes Cig Tax to Fund Government Pay Hikes
Opinion -budget-tax-news -The South Boston, Virginia City Council is considering levying a tax on tobacco sales in the city to fund pay hikes for city government employees and pad general revenue. -
The Walter Lippmann Colloquium and the Meaning of Liberalism
Opinion -Editorial -After the collapse of communism in the 1990s, there was confidence that democracy had won and the market economy had shown its superiority to government planning. -
Rubio Introduces Taxpayer-Financed Parental Paid-Leave Bill
Opinion -budget-tax-news -The U.S. Senate is considering a bill that would use Social Security to finance a new paid parental-leave benefit for couples with new children. -
Pro-Net Neutrality Big Tech – Is with Conservatives as Anti-Neutrality as You Can Get
Opinion -Editorial -Network Neutrality is absolutely awful policy. It is a huge government imposition on the entirety of the Internet. It has zero business being even considered - by any nation laying even the remotest claim to being a free market economy. -
National Labor Trends Continue Upward Trajectory
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Americans are continuing to return to work and stay employed in 2018 as the American economic machine continues to roar, according to new statistics released by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
