Grover Norquist is president of Americans for Tax Reform Taxes that took effect in 2010: 1. Excise Tax on Charitable Hospitals (Min$/immediate): $50,000 per hospital if they fail to meet new “community health assessment needs,” “financial assistance,” and “billing and collection” rules set by HHS. Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,961-1,971. 2. Codification of the “economic substance […]
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July 2, 2012 The Chief Justice’s ObamaCare ruling is far from the check on Congress of right-left myth. The commentary on John Roberts’s solo walk into the Affordable Care Act wilderness is converging on a common theme: The Chief Justice is a genius. All of a sudden he is a chessmaster, a statesman, a Burkean
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Updated: Fri., Jun. 29, 2012, 4:16 AM Chaos, fury as Roberts fakes right & goes left By MICHAEL GOODWIN Last Updated: 4:16 AM, June 29, 2012 Posted: 12:43 AM, June 29, 2012 Weird, strange, infuriating. And maybe brilliant. Chief Justice John Roberts is either the most savvy person on the Supreme Court, or an odd
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May 26, 2012 Advice for a New President The counsel that Reagan received in November 1980 is still relevant today. Editor’s note: The following are excerpts from a Nov. 16, 1980 memo to President-elect Ronald Reagan from his Coordinating Committee on Economic Policy. Its title: “Economic Strategy for the Reagan Administration.” The memo describes an
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Our Age of Anxiety Romney’s challenge is to address the deep uneasiness in America and point the way to a comeback. Yuval Levin Yuval Levin is a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard, Hertog fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and editor of National Affairs. May 28,
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May 15, 2012 McGurn: Jerry Brown vs. Chris Christie More states are realizing that the road to fiscal hell is paved with progressive intentions. By WILLIAM MCGURN In his January 2011 inaugural address, California Gov. Jerry Brown declared it a “time to honestly assess our financial condition and make the tough choices.” Plainly the choices
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) What Reagan Actually Said William Kristol April 23, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 30 I’m not the first president to call for this idea that everybody has got to do their fair share. Some years ago, one of my predecessors traveled across the country pushing for the same concept. He
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May 3, 2012 Cabinets Gone Wild By Victor Davis Hanson 5/3/2012 We’ve had some unusual Cabinet secretaries in past administrations — Earl Butz, John Mitchell and James Watt come to mind — but never anything quite like the present bunch. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has overseen some $5 trillion in new debt. To help pay
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March 27, 2012, 6:37 p.m. ET Ryan’s Budget Protects Defense Within a plan to reduce outlays by $6.2 trillion over the next decade, Paul Ryan has found a way to replace $214 billion of the $487 billion in military spending cuts in Obama’s budget. By ARTHUR C. BROOKS, EDWIN J. FEULNER AND WILLIAM KRISTOL Mr.
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USA TODAY MITT ROMNEY: WHY I’D REPEAL OBAMACARE March 22, 2012 Friday is the second anniversary of ObamaCare. It is past time to abolish the program, root and branch. The Supreme Court will soon have a crack at this; arguments about the program’s constitutionality open before it next week. But whatever the justices decide in
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