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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 10, 2009 15 Comments

Karl Marx famously wrote that "history always repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, and the second as farce."Barack Obama has reversed these historical forces. With Obama, farce repeats itself as history.As a neophyte politician, Obama was elected to the Illinois State Senate when he...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 08, 2009 5 Comments

Ezra Klein, in his post Don't Read The Bill!, defends Max Baucus' plan to have the Senate Finance Committee vote on the Chairman's mark, which is a summary of provisions which eventually could be reduced to legislative language. Klein writes that people should not read...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 08, 2009 2 Comments

The CBO is doing its best to score the Baucus Health Care Concepts (it's not a Bill), but it really is an exercise in hypothesis and speculation, and not only because there is no actual legislation.The main problem is that the Baucus Concepts make assumptions...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 08, 2009 11 Comments

You can find an e-mail submission form for Maine Senator Olympia Snowe by clicking here.Snowe is the key vote on the Senate Finance Committee because she is the only Republican on the Committee who might vote in favor of the non-Bill markup language. If Snowe...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 07, 2009 16 Comments

The internet is alive with the sound of people analyzing the CBO's "scoring" of the Max Baucus aka Senate Finance Committee Health Care Bill. Before everyone gets too deeply into their thoughts, please keep in mind the following (get ready, all CAPS, bold, indented signifies...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 07, 2009 1 Comment

As pointed out here first, the Democratic health care restructuring plans put the IRS in the forefront of health care mandate enforcement (the Democratic HELP Committee version even gives the IRS the ability to set mandate tax rates -- why is no one talking about...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 07, 2009 6 Comments

A slow awakening of our reality is sinking in on many fronts. One of those realities is that we have moved ever more drastically from a nation led by doers to a nation led by non-doers.Some formulate this as The Doers vs. The 'Thinkers' but...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 06, 2009 4 Comments

Scrolling through the excellent TaxProf Blog reminded me of a fundamental dynamic in American politics. A large percentage of voters pay no federal income taxes: 47% Will Pay $0 Income Tax in 2009.But that doesn't tell the full story. For whom do these non-tax paying...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 06, 2009 3 Comments

The Obama media team handed out white coats to pro-Obama doctors who attended a pro-Obamacare rally at the White House yesterday. Can you imagine what would have happened if Republicans handed out white coats to anti-Obamacare doctors?The race card addicts would have screamed that they...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2009 9 Comments

Consumer Reports has decided to weigh in on the health care debate in favor of the Democratic health care proposals, or what CR euphemistically calls "health care reform." Having decided to take sides, I think it is fair to hold CR to the standards it...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2009 7 Comments

Florida Congressman Alan Grayson, the new Al Franken-like star of the Democratic Party, claims that Republicans want people to die quickly. Grayson's proof? Republicans oppose Democratic plans to restructure the U.S. health care system, including getting government further involved in health care decisions. Grayson has been...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 01, 2009 3 Comments

Had anyone outside of 8th Congressional District in Florida heard of Alan Grayson prior to Grayson's rant that Republicans want people to "die quickly"? Using the standard of causation employed by Nancy Pelosi, Patrick Kennedy, the nutroots, and other Democrats, Grayson is inciting violence against Republicans....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 01, 2009 7 Comments

Consumer Reports, published by Consumers Union, is a valuable tool when trying to figure out which is the best washing machine, most reliable automobile, or most powerful drill. By staying out of politics, and not seeming to have a dog in any fight other than...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 30, 2009 7 Comments

Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) made news this week by joining the chorus of fear-mongering Democrats who suggest that those opposing Democratic health care restructuring proposals are prone to violence. As reported The Providence Journal:“My family’s seen it up close too much with assassinations and violence in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 28, 2009 4 Comments

My Congressman, Patrick Kennedy (D-RI), knows a lot about the importance of the privacy of medical records, having spent most of his adult life in and out of drug and alcohol rehabilitation. Yet Patrick is a hard line Democrat when it comes to government control...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 27, 2009 8 Comments

I haven't paid much attention to the upcoming 2010 Census, until the recent death of part-time Census worker Bill Sparkman, whose death under unclear circumstances is being shamelessly exploited by left-wing blogs.I went to the Census website, and took a look at the questions which...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 26, 2009 4 Comments

This story has not received enough play, and has been lost in the shuffle of Obama's UN and G-20 appearances.The Senate Joint Committee on Taxation is considering the tax aspects of proposed Democratic health care bills. Republican Senator John Ensign has revealed that the bill...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 25, 2009 2 Comments

The supporters of a government-run "public option" are touting a CBS/NY Times poll which purportedly shows that 65% of people support a public option. But examine how the question is framed, and it is clear that the question is intended to elicit a favorable response:"Would...

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