by Bill Scher | Dec 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
Healthcare Hardship Exemption Expanded HHS expands Obamacare hardship exemption. AP: "Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a letter to a group of senators that she will use authorities in the law to issue a 'hardship exemption' from tax...
by Bill Scher | Dec 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
Tea Party Loses Budget Battle... "House exhales after passing compromise budget" reports McClatchy: "Conservatives fumed that the plan didn’t take the kind of bold steps to reduce spending and deficits they have long sought. Democrats were not pleased that the package...
by Bill Scher | Dec 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
On Tuesday, Slate columnist Aisha Harris made the case for depicting Santa Claus as a penguin instead of a white man to "spare millions of nonwhite kids the insecurity and shame that I remember from childhood." On Wednesday, Fox News' Megyn Kelly retorted that "Santa...
by Bill Scher | Dec 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
Source: National Review The Murray-Ryan budget deal neither maintains nor repeals the sequester. Instead, as you can see in the chart above, it creates a kindler, gentler sequester. The original sequester drove the budget baseline down to a low point in 2014, then...
by Bill Scher | Dec 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
House To Vote On Budget Deal Today "This deal fails America!" CLICK HERE to tell your House representative: "It abandons the unemployed, picks the pockets of federal workers and leaves every last corporate loophole and tax dodge in place." Budget deal splits...
