by Jane Richey | Jul 2, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
Obamacare’s individual mandate is not a tax, “it’s a penalty,” White House chief of staff Jack Lew told Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday.” “What the Supreme Court said was, this was constitutional. They said it didn’t...
by Jane Richey | Jul 1, 2012 | Politics
. . . voting on bills they never read. Senator Rand Paul gave a scathing rebuke of Senators on Friday voting on bills that they have yet to read. As evidence of what he was saying, he held up a what looked like an entire ream of paper and declared, “For goodness...
by Jane Richey | Jun 29, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
As the hours passed, three reactions proved predominant, and conservatives began to coalesce around them. These three came from GOP Governors, the House leadership, and the very Tea Party that James Carville had pronounced dead earlier this week. The governors, for...
by Jane Richey | Jun 29, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
The first, and best known, of these seven taxes that will hit all Americans as a result of Obamacare is the Individual Mandate Tax (no longer concealed as a penalty). This provision will require a couple to pay the higher of a base tax of $1,360 per year, or 2.5% of...
by Jane Richey | Jun 28, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
In his deciding opinion in the cases challenging the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (AKA Obamacare), Chief Justice John Roberts first says the mandate in the law requiring individuals to buy health insurance is not a tax. Then he says it is a tax. He...
by Jane Richey | Jun 28, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
The Center for Social Inclusion contends that the “structural racism” pervading American society can only be addressed by means of political policies designed to transfer wealth to nonwhite minority communities. • Views the U.S. as a nation infested with white racism...
