Boy, this ObamaCare is working out, um, *SWELL*
An $8 billion tax on health insurers is due September 30, and the drive-bys are just starting to realize this ObamaCare ca-ca is going to be an expensive nightmare: […] States
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Thoughts on statists, taxes and, um, PATRIOTISM ????
On the surface, it’s heart-warming to hear statists celebrating the concept of patriotism. Of course, their idea of patriotism and MINE appear to be vastly divergent. I think of Old
Continue reading#NCGA: HOW MUCH ?????
$107 Billion, 580 Million, 297 Thousand dollars. ($107,580,297,000.00) THAT is how much debt North Carolina state government had racked up by January 2014. And how has the “conservative revolution”
Continue readingThe REAL challenge in the effort to shrink government in North Carolina
WUNC radio put together a rather eye-opening report last week about the importance of teacher pay. The purpose of the article — in the minds of the reporters and their
Continue readingSOME PEOPLE just can’t be pleased
The NCAE is grumbling over pay raise proposals being offered their members by GOP legislators that are BIGGER than ANYTHING ever offered by past Democrat majorities. The movie crowd in
Continue readingBOHICA: $tuff is getting even MORE expen$ive
Today, we’re celebrating the birth of our nation — which began with resistance to bureaucratic tyranny and protests against excessive taxation. Here we are in 2014. As we’re firing
Continue readingThe Ex-Im Bank: Corporate welfare at its, um, finest
We wrote earlier about how the reauthorization of the big federal crony capitalism trough, aka The Export-Import Bank, is coming up after the primaries. Renee Ellmers voted for it and
Continue readingO-Care spending masks true economic nightmare
A new report out there suggests that spending on ObamaCare was about the only thing preventing our economy from showing negative economic growth for the first quarter of 2014. Check
Continue readingBOHICA Alert: The Ex-Im Bank
Most of you probably haven’t heard of the Export-Import Bank. It’s not like FirstBank or BB&T. It’s a major organ of the crony capitalism game. Politicians keep it afloat with
Continue readingThe Paradox of Subsidies: Stuff gets more expensive as BIG GOVT deepens its involvement
Statists like to tell us bureaucracy and government subsidies make life easier and lower the cost of stuff. Health care costs getting under your skin? Obama will get the rest
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