This week, the House passed a bill that imposes further regulations on financial firms - on executive pay which is bad enough in itself, and to add insult to injury, on the way those firms and employees do business. The bill is "aimed at preventing financial firms from adopting compensation systems...
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Despina Karras
on 08-02-2009
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President Obama wants to add yet another czar, a Health Choices Commision czar this time, to the growing list of these unelected officials that are handpicked by the President and go through absolutely no confirmation process. A Virginia paper recently asked, " how many czars can fit into the West...
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Despina Karras
on 07-07-2009
Filed under: health care, universal health care, socialized health care, public healthcare, regulation, government, Heritage Foundation, transparency, Freedom, insurance, government option, federal government, Obama promises, czar, state rights
"I think if you get into the way it was written, it's a huge tax and there's no sense calling it anything else. I mean, it is a tax ." So says Warren Buffett , Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and perhaps even more importantly, one of the President's biggest supporters in the economic...
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Despina Karras
on 06-28-2009
Filed under: energy, cap and trade, capitalism, free market, stimulus package, government spending, taxes, stimulus, job losses, tax issues, economic crisis, regulation, unemployment, green jobs, cap and tax, consumers, economics, environmentalists
Looks like Congress is again cooking up a bill that would send over taxpayer money to cover the poor financial decisions of others. It's officially called the " Homeowners' Defense Act " but Competitive Enterprise Institue (CEI) has dubbed it the "Beach House Bailout :" So...
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Alexa Shrugged
on 06-08-2009
Filed under: free market, regulation, bailout, Beach House Bailout, insurance, Florida, CEI, Homeowners Defense Act