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It might be a little easier to get a concealed handgun permit beginning today. Applicants can now submit their applications for a concealed handgun license online instead of mailing in a hard copy.
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It was a good idea to get science and democracy from the ancient Greeks. It is not such a good idea to get fiscal policy from the modern Greeks. However, that is the way we are headed, says David Boaz, executive vice president of the Cato Institute. Senate Democrats officially unveiled a proposal to reform America’s immigration system on Thursday, looking past the fact that no Republican has offered support for the effort and President Obama a day earlier played down the chances of legislation passing this year. Signature foreign policies often define presidencies. For Ronald Reagan, it was standing up to communism and advocating “peace through strength.” For Bill Clinton, it was sponsoring humanitarian interventions in the former Yugoslavia. For George W. Bush, it was promoting global freedom and using pre-emptive force and other tough measures to prosecute the war on terrorism. Before President Obama continues to go around accusing others of lacking legitimacy, he should read the official cost estimate of the financial regulation bill released by the Congressional Budget Office last Thursday. Assessing the budgetary impact of the $50 billion that “systemically important financial firms” would have to pay in assessments to pay for the bill’s “Orderly Resolution Fund,” the CBO writes: Continue reading “CBO Confirms You’re on the Hook for Wall Street Bailout Bill” According to the Congressional Budget Office, the new law will provide coverage to 32 million by 2019, but will still leave 24 million Americans uninsured. This is a far cry from universal coverage. For those who become newly insured, Nix argues ObamaCare falls short of fulfilling its promises to the uninsured because it: The federal budget picture has collapsed over the past decade. In 2000, Washington collected $2.6 trillion, spent $2.3 trillion and ran a $300 billion surplus. One decade later, in 2010, Washington is set to collect $2.1 trillion, spend $3.6 trillion and run a $1.5 trillion deficit (all numbers adjusted for inflation). Read More…
For decades, the small business community has been petitioning Congress for relief from the high and rising costs of the health benefits they provide to their workers. In 2008, presidential candidate Barack Obama promised that his health care reform plan would lower a typical family’s health care premiums by $2,500 a year.1 But in November 2009, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that, if the Democrats’ Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) were enacted, premiums in the group insurance market would keep rising by $1,000 a year, as if the bill had not passed.2 CBO’s analysis, however, did not highlight the disproportionate upward pressure on premiums paid by workers in small businesses, thanks to a new and inequitable excise tax. Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire mayor of New York City, has been funding a national advertising campaign to promote his congressional gun- control bill. Monday’s Denver Post featured a full-page ad urging Sen. Mark Udall to support the Bloomberg bill; Colorado’s other senator, Michael Bennett, is already a co-sponsor. |
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