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- Global warming advocates suggest a tax on milk and meats
- Florida Governor Hits Road to Sell His Budget Overhaul
- Senate defeats Republican-led health-care repeal effort
- Could the Supreme Court decide the 2012 elections?
- Sen. Rand Paul says tea partiers willing to cut deals
- George W. Bush Frets About New ‘Nativism’
| Global warming advocates suggest a tax on milk and meats Posted: 02 Feb 2011 05:32 PM PST
A new study published in the journal, Climate Change, suggested that the world should impose a new tax on milk and meats to stem the growth of global warming. “This tax is not at all a matter of forcing people to become vegetarians but merely moving toward a slightly more climate-smart diet,” said one of the study’s authors, Stefan Wirsenius of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, in a press release. Tacking about $82 onto the cost of beef for every "ton of carbon dioxide equivalent" would reduce Europe’s beef consumption by 15 percent. By taxing all meats and milk, Europe’s greenhouse gas emissions would be reduced by about 7 percent, according to the study. Economically, this tax and policy would be a disaster to the western nations of the world, as their diets are tied to the need for protein to deal with colder climates. Inflation on all food, including fruit and vegetables has grown over 30% in the past decade, and in this world-wide recession any additional taxes would cause more people to go into poverty than it would help the environment. Continue reading on Examiner.com: http://www.examiner.com/finance-examiner-in-national/global-warming-advocates-suggest-a-tax-on-milk-and-meats |
| Florida Governor Hits Road to Sell His Budget Overhaul Posted: 02 Feb 2011 05:28 PM PST
LEESBURG, Fla.—Gov. Rick Scott is crisscrossing Florida this week, offering glimpses of what he says will be one of the nation’s most fiscally conservative budget proposals this year. In his push to close a $3.6 billion budget deficit and make good on his promise to create 700,000 private-sector jobs in the next seven years, the Republican governor aims to slash spending, cut property and corporate income taxes and overhaul state government, making Florida an example of limited government. Among the proposals he has unveiled this week is a goal of cutting $1.4 billion annually from the budget by requiring state employees to contribute to the state’s public pension system for the first time, and by channeling new hires into 401(k)-style plans that wouldn’t guarantee set benefits upon retirement. “We’re going to be the model,” Mr. Scott said in an interview at this central Florida town’s airport, where his personal private jet was parked. (He plans to sell the state’s planes.) The 58-year-old former health-care executive undoubtedly faces significant obstacles, with opposition coming from unions and environmentalists, and skepticism from some in his own party. Mr. Scott’s pension proposal amounts to a pay cut for public workers, said Mark Pudlow, spokesman for the Florida Education Association, the teachers union. “While [Gov. Scott] wants to cut corporate and property taxes, it seems he wants to do it on the backs of state workers,” he said. To read more, visit: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704124504576118521569371188.html |
| Senate defeats Republican-led health-care repeal effort Posted: 02 Feb 2011 05:23 PM PST
The Senate on Wednesday defeated a Republican-led effort to repeal the entire national health-care overhaul, with lawmakers voting strictly along party lines. The decision underscores the hurdle that the GOP faces in that Democratic-majority chamber as it tries to overturn the law. All 50 Senate Democrats present and one independent voted against the repeal, while all 47 Republicans voted in favor. Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) were not present. The measure was proposed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). Republicans needed the support of 13 Democrats for the measure to move forward because of a Democratic-led procedural move that set up a 60-vote hurdle. Democrats’ unanimous opposition to the repeal came even though several vulnerable lawmakers up for re-election in 2012, including Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin (W.Va.), Claire McCaskill (Mo.), Jon Tester (Mont.) and Ben Nelson (Neb.), had come under pressure to support repeal. To read more, visit: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2011/02/senate-debates-health-care-rep.html |
| Could the Supreme Court decide the 2012 elections? Posted: 02 Feb 2011 05:16 PM PST
The working title for my column at The Week, which appeared late yesterday, wondered whether Barack Obama would have political severability from ObamaCare if the Supreme Court grabbed the case early and overturned the PPACA. The editors made a wise change, because the impact of an early review ahead of the appellate courts may very well impact the direction of the 2012 elections, and not just for Obama, either. If the Supreme Court gets to rule on the questions raised by district courts in Virginia and Florida before the elections, that has no political upside at all for Democrats — and a lot of downside: An immediate grant of certiorari could mean a decision by this summer, while the trek through the appellate courts could postpone any final consideration of PPACA until 2013 or 2014, when the law comes fully into effect. Even if the Supreme Court waited until its next session to accept an expedited case, the decision would still come before the 2012 election. A Supreme Court ruling that supports the mandate still leaves President Obama and his Democratic allies with an unpopular bill under political siege in the Republican-controlled House, no worse or better off than before a final court ruling. Such a ruling might even provide more motivation to the opposition to gain control of the Senate and White House to reverse the PPACA entirely through legislative action. An adverse ruling by the Supreme Court before the 2012 election would be an unequivocal disaster, however. President Obama and his fellow Democrats spent almost half of the 111th congressional session fiddling on health care while the economy burned, which destroyed their credibility in the midterm elections last fall. They insisted that their work would pass constitutional muster even as the mandate fueled the rise of the Tea Party and came to embody all of the arrogance and elitism of big-government, nanny-state. A ruling that overturns even just the mandate means that they tossed away their House majority and all of their political momentum for nothing. To read more, visit: http://hotair.com/archives/2011/02/02/could-the-supreme-court-decide-the-2012-elections/ |
| Sen. Rand Paul says tea partiers willing to cut deals Posted: 02 Feb 2011 05:12 PM PST
WASHINGTON — Invoking legendary 19th-century Sen. Henry Clay and the abolitionist movement, freshman Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., delivered his first Senate floor speech Wednesday to signal that he and the tea party are willing to compromise with opponents on the federal debt and spending cuts. But their compromise would be narrowly drawn. “Many ask, will the tea party compromise? Can the tea party work with others to find a solution?” Paul said in his brief address. “The answer is, of course, there must be dialogue and ultimately compromise, but compromise must occur on where we cut spending.” The perceived inflexibility of tea party devotees combined with their popularity in last November’s elections complicates the ability of Republican leaders in Congress to strike deals with Democrats, lest they face challenges from the right in their next elections. Paul’s comments that tea party leaders recognize the necessity of compromise offers hope of bipartisan agreements. But Paul, a tea party favorite who catapulted onto the national scene after defeating an establishment Republican candidate in Kentucky’s senate primary last year, warned that he isn’t interested in compromise for compromise’s sake. Some tea party members also have signaled that they’re not in a compromising mood over spending cuts or raising the federal government’s $14.3 trillion debt limit, which Congress must decide on by March 31. At the inaugural meeting of the Senate Tea Party Caucus last week, some tea party supporters pleaded with Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., to introduce legislation to cut $1.4 trillion from government spending each year to quickly reduce the debt. Paul himself has introduced a bill to cut $500 billion per year by eliminating some agencies and programs and consolidating others. Paul said he agonized over compromise questions and turned for guidance from the lessons of fellow Kentuckian Henry Clay – who was nicknamed “The Great Compromiser” during his long political career in the Senate and the House of Representatives during the first half of the 19th century. Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/02/02/2047379/sen-rand-paul-says-tea-partiers.html#ixzz1Cr0Cj6qV |
| George W. Bush Frets About New ‘Nativism’ Posted: 02 Feb 2011 05:09 PM PST
A "rational" immigration policy will likely become law in the United States, but only after "some time," former President George W. Bush said in a question-and-answer session aired Sunday night. Evoking the "America first" policies that predated World War II, Bush said he fears that isolationism, nativism, and protectionism are creeping back into American life. "I'm a little concerned that we may be going through the same period," Bush said at a Southern Methodist University forum recorded January 24. Bush pushed hard for comprehensive immigration reform in his second term, costing him standing in the Republican Party, where the initiative was assailed as amnesty. In the book he released last year and has been promoting, Decision Points, Bush labeled the failure of his immigration overhaul one of his presidency's disappointments. "I'm through with politics, I'm tired of politics," he said. At another point in the hour-long session, Bush said, "I don’t want to go out and campaign for candidates. I don’t want to be viewed as a perpetual money-raiser. I don’t want to be on these talk shows, giving my opinion, second-guessing the current president. I think it’s bad for the country, frankly, to have a former president criticize his successor. And, look, it’s tough enough to be president as it is without a former president undermining the current president. Plus, I don’t want to do that. In other words, in spite of the fact that I'm now on TV, I don't want to be on TV." To read more, visit: http://www.nationaljournal.com/member/congress/george-w-bush-frets-about-new-nativism–20110131 |
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