Thursday Links
- Obama can twist words all he wants, but a government mandate to buy health insurance is still a tax. “Think of it this way: If the government took money directly from you, then turned around and gave it to an insurance company, everyone would agree that you’ve been taxed.” Nobody considers it a tax? Even his advisers call it a tax.
- More on the health care mandate: “Compulsory health insurance could require nearly 100 million Americans to switch to a more expensive health plan and would therefore violate President Barack Obama’s pledge to let people keep their current health insurance.”
- Why the U.S. slapped a trade tariff on Chinese tires: “President Obama’s decision was guided strictly by selfish, political considerations: He felt he owed American unions for their previous and continuing support, regardless of the economic and diplomatic fallout.”
- Vital data on climate change mysteriously disappear.
- Podcast: “Twenty Years Since the Fall of Communism” featuring Czech President Václav Klaus.
Chris Moody • September 24, 2009 @ 3:30 pm
Filed under: General
Tags: AMA, Barack Obama, climate change, government, Health, health insurance, health plan, mandate, podcast, President Obama, tariff, tires, Trade and Immigration
Filed under: General
Tags: AMA, Barack Obama, climate change, government, Health, health insurance, health plan, mandate, podcast, President Obama, tariff, tires, Trade and Immigration
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