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After Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid pushed through the mammoth health care takeover in the dark of night without any meaningful Republican input, it should be no surprise that the unintended consequences caused by the bill will be severe for the American people. 

An article in the USA Today outlines one way in which the new bill will actually trap about 200,000 Americans in pricey health plans simply because they made the responsible choice in years past to carry health insurance themselves.  According to the article, the nation's new health law creates a far cheaper insurance program opening July 1 for people with pre-existing medical conditions, but to qualify a person can’t have had health insurance in the past six months. 

That means people who took part in state-run high risk insurance pools are barred from participating in the new federal option, even though the federal option might be 50% to 70% cheaper.    

This is just another illustration of the ways that the Obama ... more

The RNC has rolled out a new website to illustrate the ways in which the Obama Administration has put our Constitution under attack.  From wanting to ban police from monitoring convicted sex offenders, to wanting to give citizens to free health care and job training at taxpayer expense, the Obama Administration and their judicial nominees have interpreted the Constitution in ways the Founders could have never contemplated.

 For instance, President Obama’s nominee to the 9th Circuit Court Of Appeals, Goodwin Liu, fought against Justice Samuel Alito’s nomination because he did not want to give government tools to fight the War On Terror.

His nominee to serve on the bench in the U.S. District Court For Western Wisconsin, Louis Butler, ruled that courts could make use of social science publications to change public policy, instead of leaving that decision to elected lawmakers.  That same nominee ruled in a previous decision to limit gun-carrying rights, including the carrying of ... more

According to the latest quarterly survey by the National Association for Business Economics, about 73% of those surveyed said employment at their company is neither higher nor lower as a result of the $862 billion federal stimulus package signed into law by President Obama.  

Republicans said from the beginning of the stimulus debate that there was a better way to get our economy moving again quickly.  Republicans offered a package that included tax breaks for the American people and the small businesses that create jobs.  The Republican package included deficit controls to strengthen America's credit and would have reduced the red tape that slows down economic growth.  

Instead, the Democrats pushed into law a package that borrows and spends billions, but did little to spur job creation in the private sector.  While the stimulus was good for growing government, it has failed to grow our economy with unemployment remaining stagnant around 10 percent.  

President Obama pledged ... more

A report on the estimated effects of the new health care law released on Friday by the chief actuary of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services pulls the cover off of the Obama Administration’s claims that the law is fiscally responsible. 

According to the report, national health care expenditures are now expected to rise by $311 billion, and health care will account for 21% of our GDP by 2019.  The government will spend $410 billion to expand Medicaid, and enrollment in Medicaid is expected to increase by 20 million new beneficiaries.  If this is how President Obama intended to “bend the cost curve” it is going in the wrong direction. 

The report also showed that doctors may drop out of Medicare because of the changes in Medicare reimbursement rates and that the so-called Medicare "savings" may be difficult to achieve.  This is the true threat to our system that this new law represents.  Doctors all over the country were beginning to close their practices to Medicare ... more

In Washington, they don't ask if the chicken comes before the egg.  They ask if the spending comes before the taxes.  

Under the Democrat leadership in our nation's capitol, no amount of spending is too absurd or too disrespectful of the taxpayers.  The latest instance is the news that Nancy Pelosi has now unveiled light fixtures in the House office buildings that cost $140,000 and will take almost 10 years to pay off in saved energy.  At a time when the working class all across America is suffering under increased taxes and more regulations, Nancy Pelosi has grown so out of touch that she'll spend hundreds of thousands on light fixtures but won't provide meaningful tax relief to the people.  

Republicans are ready to say on behalf of the American people that enough is enough of this wasteful spending in Washington.  Congressional Republicans have put forth a plan to boost our economy while still holding government spending under control.  In response, the Democrats only offer ... more

In the past weeks, the American public was warned that the Obama Administration was looking at several new ways to tax the people to fund their initiatives.  Not content with raising taxes nearly $700 billion already, presidential advisers began floating the idea of levying a Value Added Tax on nearly every good or service purchased in the United States. 

When the American people began to speak out against yet another attack on their wallets, the White House quickly backpedaled.  When asked about the proposal, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters, "I think I directly answered this the other day by saying that it wasn't something that the president had under consideration."

Unfortunately for the White House, someone forgot to tell the president this news.  According to an Associated Press article yesterday, “President Barack Obama suggested Wednesday that a new value-added tax on Americans is still on the table, seeming to show more openness to the idea than his ... more

Last week came news reports that the Democrats in control of the U.S. House and Senate may decline to pass a budget this year.  According to the Daily Caller, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said that while Democrats “would like to pass the budget, we have to see whether we have the votes to do so.”

“It’s difficult to pass budgets in election years,” said Hoyer.

The reason that Democratic leaders in Congress are laying the groundwork to operate without a budget blueprint is because passing one would cause the American people to learn just how much debt has been piled up in their names.  More debt will be enacted under President Obama than was accumulated during the terms of all the presidents who preceded him combined.  A full and open debate on the budget would lay bare the failure of the Democrat majority and the White House to treat the taxpayers with the respect they deserve. 

Not since the Budget Act of 1974 was signed into law has the U.S. House failed to pass an initial ... more

We have already seen President Obama sign into law more than $670 billion in tax increases, a tax hike of about $2,100 for every man, woman and child in the United States.  The middle class has not been left out of this assault on the taxpayers’ checkbooks, with at least 14 different tax increases signed into law that target taxpayers making less than $250,000 per year. 

Now comes the news that the White House will even tax the sale of homes to help pay for ObamaCare.  Beginning in 2013, ObamaCare will impose a 3.8% Medicare tax on unearned income, including the sale of single family homes, townhouses, co-ops, condominiums, and even rental income.  This new tax on home sales, along with other Medicare taxes, will raise more than $210 billion to pay for ObamaCare.

How many different blows can the White House deliver to America’s economy and to our working class?  The White House borrowed billions in the names of our children and grandchildren to pay for their stimulus spending.  ... more

At a speaking engagement last week, IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman suggested that the IRS would target people who are uninsured under ObamaCare with attempts to “reduce or confiscate” the tax refunds of those individuals.

This should come as no surprise to anyone who has followed the development of President Obama’s health care takeover.  Having already stuffed the bill with billions of dollars in new tax hikes and penalties, it was just a matter of time until the Democrats targeted tax refunds as well. 

No matter how the Obama Administration tries to spin their way out of their pledge not to raise taxes on incomes less than $250,000 a year, there is simply no denying the fact that this is the most aggressive Administration in decades when it comes to using your money to fund their initiatives.  According to the Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee, the Obama White House has already enacted 14 different tax provisions that will impact middle class families.  Twelve of ... more

In the media, and no doubt in some offices in the White House, Tax Day will be treated today almost as a holiday.  To the liberals in the White House and in Congress, today is a day to celebrate the ever growing size of government and its involvement in the lives of the American people. 

Tax Day is no holiday.  To be sure, some taxes are necessary to provide national security and to pay for the necessary functions of government called for in the Constitution.  But today’s tax code is so far removed from what the Founders intended it is unlikely they would recognize it at all. 

Just since January of 2009, Democrats have enacted $670 billion in tax hikes.  That equates to more than $2,100 in new taxes for every man, woman and child in the United States.  These hikes include everything from a new 10% tax on indoor tanning to increased Medicare taxes and unconstitutional penalties to be levied against people who choose not to purchase health insurance.  According to the Republicans on ... more