Commentary
Business & Economics
Analysis: House Tax Plan Would Create Nearly 1 Million New Jobs and Increase GDP By 3.9%
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the new legislation introduced by the House last week, would create nearly one million new jobs and increase gross domestic product by 3.9 percent, according to an analysis from the nonpartisan Tax Foundation. The bill cuts the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 20 percent; ...
Commentary
Bernie Sanders Goes To Canada And Turns A Blind Eye To Their Failing Health System
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., traveled to Canada in late October. His goal? To highlight the supposed benefits of that nation’s single-payer healthcare system. “How is it that here in Canada, they provide quality health care to all people … and they do it for half the cost?” he asked rhetorically. ...
Commentary
Single-Payer Is Failing Overseas — We Shouldn’t Adopt It Here
Two weeks ago, Sens. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., and Tim Kaine, D-Va., introduced a bill that would effectively allow some Americans to buy into Medicare. Other congressional Democrats favor an even more aggressive expansion of the program. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D- Mich., recently proposed dropping the program’s eligibility age from 65 ...
Commentary
Harvey Weinsteins And Their Enablers Also Run Our Public Schools
Meet teacher Mitchell Whitehurst, the Harvey Weinstein of public education. Meet the Portland Public Schools, the education Hollywood of enablers. Meet the Portland teachers union, which like the Mafia in The Godfather, practices “omerta,” or silence when questioned. And meet the children, victims of a heinous sexual predator shielded by ...
Business & Economics
Killing the gasoline-powered car in California? That’s what one legislator wants by 2040
A clean energy advocate in the California Legislature wants internal combustion vehicles to sputter out of existence on the state’s roads and highways. “The cars that we drive today are based on technology that’s 100 years old,” said Assembly member Phil Ting, D-San Francisco. “It’s almost like we’re doing addition ...
California
California’s Dangerous Dalliance with Single-Payer Continues
Californians better get comfortable. The wait time to see a doctor in the Golden State may be about to skyrocket. Last week, California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon and a select committee of representatives held two days of hearings in Sacramento on Senate Bill 562 — the Healthy California Act — ...
Commentary
Trump’s Executive Order Offers Relief to Employers and Patients
This past Thursday President Donald Trump signed an executive order rolling back a handful of Obamacare’s regulations. Patients and employers should celebrate the move. The administration is taking action where Congress could not to increase the number of health insurance choices available to Americans — and to reduce their cost. ...
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Americans hate waiting, so they’ll despise single-payer
What makes for an awful trip to the doctor? Waiting. Earlier this year, doctor-rating website Zocdoc took a look at its database of doctor reviews and found that long waits or appointment delays were the primary motivators of negative marks from patients. Given this aversion to waiting, it’s shocking that ...
Business & Economics
To lure Amazon and more, California needs a statewide enterprise zone
Everyone wants a piece of Amazon. A city in Georgia has even offered to rename itself “Amazon” if only the web sales giant would locate its second headquarters there. Jerry Brown is making a pitch, too. The governor, according to the Mercury News, “is offering tax breaks and other incentives ...
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Students need an escape from public school violence
Recently, a fistfight between two female students at an Alabama high school erupted into a campus-wide fracas that ended in gunfire. A massive brawl at a North Carolina school resulted in multiple arrests. And in San Diego, several teenage boys were rushed to the emergency room with stab wounds after ...
Analysis: House Tax Plan Would Create Nearly 1 Million New Jobs and Increase GDP By 3.9%
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the new legislation introduced by the House last week, would create nearly one million new jobs and increase gross domestic product by 3.9 percent, according to an analysis from the nonpartisan Tax Foundation. The bill cuts the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 20 percent; ...
Bernie Sanders Goes To Canada And Turns A Blind Eye To Their Failing Health System
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., traveled to Canada in late October. His goal? To highlight the supposed benefits of that nation’s single-payer healthcare system. “How is it that here in Canada, they provide quality health care to all people … and they do it for half the cost?” he asked rhetorically. ...
Single-Payer Is Failing Overseas — We Shouldn’t Adopt It Here
Two weeks ago, Sens. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., and Tim Kaine, D-Va., introduced a bill that would effectively allow some Americans to buy into Medicare. Other congressional Democrats favor an even more aggressive expansion of the program. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D- Mich., recently proposed dropping the program’s eligibility age from 65 ...
Harvey Weinsteins And Their Enablers Also Run Our Public Schools
Meet teacher Mitchell Whitehurst, the Harvey Weinstein of public education. Meet the Portland Public Schools, the education Hollywood of enablers. Meet the Portland teachers union, which like the Mafia in The Godfather, practices “omerta,” or silence when questioned. And meet the children, victims of a heinous sexual predator shielded by ...
Killing the gasoline-powered car in California? That’s what one legislator wants by 2040
A clean energy advocate in the California Legislature wants internal combustion vehicles to sputter out of existence on the state’s roads and highways. “The cars that we drive today are based on technology that’s 100 years old,” said Assembly member Phil Ting, D-San Francisco. “It’s almost like we’re doing addition ...
California’s Dangerous Dalliance with Single-Payer Continues
Californians better get comfortable. The wait time to see a doctor in the Golden State may be about to skyrocket. Last week, California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon and a select committee of representatives held two days of hearings in Sacramento on Senate Bill 562 — the Healthy California Act — ...
Trump’s Executive Order Offers Relief to Employers and Patients
This past Thursday President Donald Trump signed an executive order rolling back a handful of Obamacare’s regulations. Patients and employers should celebrate the move. The administration is taking action where Congress could not to increase the number of health insurance choices available to Americans — and to reduce their cost. ...
Americans hate waiting, so they’ll despise single-payer
What makes for an awful trip to the doctor? Waiting. Earlier this year, doctor-rating website Zocdoc took a look at its database of doctor reviews and found that long waits or appointment delays were the primary motivators of negative marks from patients. Given this aversion to waiting, it’s shocking that ...
To lure Amazon and more, California needs a statewide enterprise zone
Everyone wants a piece of Amazon. A city in Georgia has even offered to rename itself “Amazon” if only the web sales giant would locate its second headquarters there. Jerry Brown is making a pitch, too. The governor, according to the Mercury News, “is offering tax breaks and other incentives ...
Students need an escape from public school violence
Recently, a fistfight between two female students at an Alabama high school erupted into a campus-wide fracas that ended in gunfire. A massive brawl at a North Carolina school resulted in multiple arrests. And in San Diego, several teenage boys were rushed to the emergency room with stab wounds after ...
