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Monday January 14, 2013 · 11:43 AM PST

2013/01/14 · 11:43

I started a petition against the right of each state to reject the Medicaid expansion that is included in the ACA . SCOTUS opened the door by upholding the ACA as a taxing power. I believe the Act should stand under the Commerce Clause which would make the Medicaid provision nondiscretionary.

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Saturday January 12, 2013 · 12:35 PM PST

2013/01/12 · 12:35

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/...

Use federal law to justify ACA under the Commerce Clause so the medicaid expansion cannot be contested:

The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) was passed in 1986. It requires hospitals to provide emergency medical care whether a patient can pay or not. Since it provides no funding, the cost for any uncompensated care has been borne entirely by the health care industry.

Requiring everyone to have health insurance spreads this burden to include the health care consumer. With EMTALA seen as the "limiting principal", the Health Insurance Mandate is therefor justifiable under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution.

We submit that the Affordable Care Act should be viewed in this manner, and that states should not have the power to reject the medicaid benefit extensions included in the Act.

Harry Reid: John Boehner runs a "dictatorship" in the House

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Thursday December 27, 2012 · 3:18 PM PST

2012/12/27 · 15:18

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

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Monday December 10, 2012 · 12:36 PM PST

2012/12/10 · 12:36

Why bring this up now? The dems could better explain the impact of the Bush tax cuts:

Small Business' Perspective on Bush Tax cuts for the wealthy/

And the way they managed the Keystone dialog shows this may be a pattern....

Back in January Obama delayed the Pipeline, ostensibly because his administration hadn't had enough time to review the application the feds had in hand.

But by law he had no authority to take any action. Still doesn't.

HR 3765, the legislation that extended the payroll tax holiday passed in Dec. '10, is explicit:

Sec 501.c.2.

(c) REQUIREMENTS.—The permit granted under subsection (a)
shall require the following:

(2) The permittee shall obtain all requisite permits from
all relevant Canadian, Federal, State, and local
governmental agencies.

As of last January, Nebraska had yet to approve a permit. Environmentalists in NB raised the alarm, not the ones from Hollywood. Believe it or not, The NB permit is still pending.

And Gov. Brian Schweitzer was all over this from the very start:

Schweitzer on Keystone

I don't know how to get this stuff to the guys that can do something about it. So all I can do is vent......

How a small business owner views raising taxes on the 2%

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Sunday November 25, 2012 · 8:17 PM PST

2012/11/25 · 20:17

Will raising taxes on high earners really cost jobs?

Business expenses are fully deductible, which means my tax rate has no effect whatsoever on my business capital. The tax rate I pay is applied to my profits, and only then after I take my personal deductions. It is only taxable income over $250,000 that would be hit with the higher rate.

I, unfortunately, do not have an adjusted gross high enough to be effected. Very few small business owners do.

But what if I was one of the 2% that would be effected?

Every taxable dollar over $250K is currently taxed at 35%, which means I put $0.65 in my pocket. Under the new rate I would put $0.61 in my pocket.

This is not trivial. Really. Because for every $1,000,000 of adjusted gross income I report my taxes would increase $40,000.

Put it into context, though. Right now I put $650,000 of that million in my pocket. It would become $610,000.

That, then, is the real question. For those business owners paying taxes on earnings over $250K, their living wage WILL go down. But it sure wouldn't be enough to change my lifestyle. And it wouldn't make me change my business plan.

I mean, $40,000 would buy me a very nice car. But I think I could buy a nice one with the $610K I'd still have.

If you are interested check the link. I looked at this from a slightly different perspective. Funny thing about math. I came to the same conclusion......

Billings Gazette, November 10:

http://billingsgazette.com/...

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