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Michele Bachman is a Welfare Queen - The Whited Sepulchre »
Posted by: mesodude 6 days, 20 hours ago in Political News
Michele Bachmann has become well known for her anti-government tea-bagger antics, protesting health care reform and every other government “handout” as socialism. What her followers ...
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EXCLUSIVE: House quietly gives 'bonuses' to top aides »
Posted by: gbudavid 4 months ago in Political News
Members of the House of Representatives quietly gave their own staffers a potential bonus by making even their top-earning aides eligible for taxpayer dollars to ...
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Senate likely to cut employer mandate - Health care reform- msnbc.com »
Posted by: david_nwpa 2 months ago in Health & Fitness
Businesses would not be required to provide health insurance under legislation being readied for Senate debate, but large firms could owe significant penalties if workers ...
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Federal Subsidies Keep Small-Town Airports Flying »
Posted by: engineer 1 month, 1 week ago in News
Even the most frequent fliers have probably never taken a plane trip to Vernal, Utah, or Rockland, Maine. Those towns have two of the nation ...
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Reach of Subsidies Is Critical Issue for Health Plan »
Posted by: engineer 5 months ago in News
The major health care bills moving through Congress would require nearly all Americans to have health insurance. But as lawmakers struggle to achieve the goal ...
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Report Details AT&T's Long Break-Even Wait on the iPhone »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 2 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
A new report by the Yankee Group focuses on the subsidies wireless carriers pay to device manufacturers. In particular, as C|Net found, despite the ...
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Ill-conceived US corn subsidies make "liquid Satan" high-fructose corn syrup a cheap ingredient »
Posted by: calitennflo 1 month ago in Business & Finance
When a crop like corn is subsidized by the government, food producers hone in on it for use in their products because it is cheap.
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Fiji Water: So cool, so fresh, so bad for the environment? -- DailyFinance »
Posted by: Eagle_Eye 4 months, 1 week ago in Business & Finance
What makes this story so difficult to swallow is how eagerly the U.S. seems to have embraced Fiji's co-owners Stewart and Lynda Resnick ...
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Should Government Subsidize Higher Education? »
Posted by: populist 8 months ago in Political News
on the subject of subsidies to academia, scholars are noticeably silent. They are content with government-operated state universities, and seldom say a word against the ...
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Health care bill price tag goes down »
Posted by: Progressive 6 months, 1 week ago in Political News
A group of key Senate negotiators has found a way to further reduce the price tag of the health care reform bill, bringing it in ...
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Subprime Lenders Getting U.S. Subsidies, Report Says - washingtonpost.com »
Posted by: Patience 4 months ago in News
Many of the lenders eligible to receive billions of dollars from the government's massive foreclosure prevention program helped fuel the housing crisis by issuing ...
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CATO Institute: Downsizing The Federal Government - Agriculture »
Posted by: everyonesacritic 11 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
The CATO Institute explains the problems with the growth of agricultural subsidies over the years, especially while the number of farms in the U.S ...
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Subsidies Hurt Recipients Too »
Posted by: populist 10 months, 1 week ago in Political News
Most students of government intervention know that federal subsidies are a drain on those who pay for them. What needs more emphasis is that sometimes ...
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Obama Weblog: Reality Check: Medicare Benefits Won't Be Cut »
Posted by: linkintaos 3 months ago in Political News
A common lie being perpetrated about health insurance reform is that it will cut your medicare benefits. This simply isn't true. Reform will, however ...
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The $100 Million Health Care Vote? - The Note »
Posted by: pkrf1end 1 month, 1 week ago in News
The health care bill includes a $100 million section for increasing medicaid subsidies to the state of Louisiana. The Note, authored by ABC News' Rick ...
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