Health Issues GOODBYE, EMPLOYER SPONSORED INSURANCE<http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=19370&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPD>
Companies are discovering that it's cheaper to pay fines to the government than to cover workers, says John C. Goodman, President, CEO and the Kellye Wright Fellow of the National Center for Policy Analysis... (This is exactly what I said. Are you telling me nobody else saw this coming???) WALL STREET JOURNAL Taxes POPPING THE SODA BALLOON<http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=19364&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPD> Excise taxes are highly regressive, inefficient, unfair and, in the case of the soda tax, do little to combat obesity, say economists with the National Center for Policy Analysis... WASHINGTON EXAMINER Environment Issues THE EPA'S SHOCKING POWER GRAB<http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=19365&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPD> The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's "endangerment finding" will burden America with a regulatory regime more costly than any climate bill Congress has rejected or declined to pass, says George Allen, a former U.S. Senator and governor from Virginia, and Marlo Lewis, senior fellow in environmental policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute... FORBES Economic Issues POLITICIANS AS PLUTOCRATS<http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=19366&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPD> Free markets deliver not just higher growth but greater happiness, says Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute... WALL STREET JOURNAL Unions STATE PENSIONS BECOMING FEDERAL ISSUE<http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=19367&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPD> By 2030, as many as 31 states may not have the money to pay the pensions of retired teachers, university employees, state workers, judges and politicians, say observers... FINANCIAL TIMES Regulatory Issues THE SALT WARS AND COUNTRY HAM<http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=19368&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPD> Not only would limiting salt content potentially make some pork products dangerous, but there's no evidence that restricting salt, in isolation, has any health benefits, say observers... HEARTLAND INSTITUTE/CAROLINA JOURNAL -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
