Rank and file House Dems trash Obama’s plan to give tax credit to … - Baltimore Sun
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Some rank and file Democrats in the House are trashing President Barack Obama’s plan to give businesses that add workers a new $5,000 tax credit for each job they create. Democratic Rep. Mike Thompson of California said businesses …
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Streaming at 11 AM: CTO Chopra and CIO Kundra Launch Open Government Plan
In an appropriate first for the White House, we’ll be announcing the White House’s Open Government Plan in a live online chat with Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra and Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra. Watch the announcement, then ask your questions and make your suggestions live.
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John Stossel on ‘The U.S. House of Presumptuous Meddlers’
Leave it to John Stossel to characterize the House’s health-care plan in the nutshell it belongs:
As an American, I am embarrassed that the U.S. House of Representatives has 220 members who actually believe the government can successfully centrally plan the medical and insurance industries.
I’m embarrassed that my representatives think that government can subsidize the [...]
Yes, Virginia, It Really Is a Tax
Yesterday, Sen. John Ensign (R-NV, 92%) interrogated one Thomas Barthold, chief of staff for the Joint Committee on Taxation; Ensign wanted to know whether the Internal Revenue Service was responsible for enforcing the ObamaCare provision requiring individuals to pay a “penalty” of $1,900 if they fail to purchase an “approved” health-care plan.
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Taking the Dissident Database Seriously
We and many others have ridiculed the Obama administration’s heavy-handed effort to gather information on the “fishy” opponents of its government medicine proposal. Byron York, meanwhile, takes a serious look at the legal implications of the administration’s data-gathering program:
In a letter to Obama Tuesday, Republican Sen. John Cornyn wrote that, given Phillips’ request, “it [...]
