Thanks to you, we now have more than 235,000 Americans who have declared their support for a free market health care system by signing the Free Our Health Care Now! petition. The groundswell of support for private health care could not come at a more important time. As we celebrate July 4^th, the 233rd anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the Administration and Congress are making good on their campaign promise to increase America's patriotism by increasing our taxes.

The House Democratic health reform plan includes a provision in section 401 that creates a new "tax on individuals without acceptable health care coverage." That means if the government doesn't approve of the type of health insurance you have, you will be taxed as much as 2% of your yearly income. And there's no exemption for people making less than $250,000 per year! I do not believe increasing our taxes is a patriotic way to celebrate Independence Day.

Additionally, Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) recently proposed legislation estimated by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to cost $1.6 trillion over ten years. Despite this unprecedented budgetary outlay, more than 15 million uninsured Americans would remain unprotected under the Baucus Health Plan. Baucus now says that the cost has been pushed down to $1 trillion, but that may be wishful thinking.

In an effort to continue in the same spirit of those Founding Fathers who met at Independence Hall in Philadelphia 233 years ago, we want to be free of burdensome and illegitimate taxes, regulation and control. To help in this effort we have prepared an "Action Pac" tool kit to educate the public on health care. It includes links for learning and teaching materials including a power point slide presentation with teachers notes, all available for you to use.

American taxpayers and American patients deserve better. Please help us educate the public. Send the "Action Pac" education kit to all your friends and family. Remember, the health care that you're fighting for is your own!

www.ncpa.org/petition-resources

Thanks for your help in this important fight for freedom.

Jeanette Nordstrom

National Center for Policy Analysis

No, I'm not referring to the ridiculous wall-to-wall coverage of St. Michael's death. I'm referring to the cap&tax boondoggle passed last night...you know, the huge outrage of a bill that has nothing to do with "climate change" and everything to do with higher taxes and more government control. I'm especially outraged that these so-called "Republicans" voted FOR this piece of crap legislation. Write to them. The bums need to be THROWN OUT next year. I'm furious right now...not a great way to start the day!

One can only hope this can be stopped in the Senate, but honestly, I'm losing faith in our party by the minute. This could have been stopped in the House, but no. These fools would rather do their Master's bidding any any cost, and I do mean ANY COST. Money. Freedom. Who cares? As long as the child King gets his way, all will be well with the world, right?

Wake me when it's over.

JASmius adds: Well, this is a first - Jen quoting Victor Creed.  The respective provocations are similar, though.

Remember when Red Barry insisted we had to pass Hogzilla RIGHT NOW or we were ALL ECONOMICALLY DOOMED!!!!!?  How'd that work out, hm?  I guess the Dems have dropped all pretense of stimulating anything except their own usurpations of power, 'cause Waxman-Markey will have the diametically opposite effect:

America’s biggest oil companies will probably cope with U.S. carbon legislation by closing fuel plants, cutting capital spending and increasing imports.

Under the Waxman-Markey climate bill that may be voted on today by the U.S. House, refiners would have to buy allowances for carbon dioxide spewed from their plants and from vehicles when motorists burn their fuel. Imports would need permits only for the latter, which ConocoPhillips Chief Executive Officer Jim Mulva said would create a competitive imbalance.

“It will lead to the opportunity for foreign sources to bring in transportation fuels at a lower cost, which will have an adverse impact to our industry, potential shutdown of refineries and investment and, ultimately, employment,” Mulva said in a June 16 interview in Detroit. Houston-based ConocoPhillips has the second-largest U.S. refining capacity.

The same amount of gasoline that would have $1 in carbon costs imposed if it were domestic would have 10 cents less added if it were imported, according to energy consulting firm Wood Mackenzie in Houston. Contrary to President Barack Obama’s goal of reducing dependence on overseas energy suppliers, the bill would incent U.S. refiners to import more fuel, said Clayton Mahaffey, an analyst at RedChip Cos. in Maitland, Florida.

“They’ll be searching the globe for refined products that don’t carry the same level of carbon costs,” said Mahaffey, a former Exxon Corp. refinery manager.

One in six U.S. refineries probably would close by 2020 as the cost of carbon allowances erases profits, according to the American Petroleum Institute, a Washington trade group known as API. Carbon permits would add 77 cents a gallon to the price of gasoline, said Russell Jones, the API’s senior economic adviser.

Maybe they should have called it "Tax Here, Tax Now, Tax More".  On the other hand, it might just create booms in the cave dwelling and hippity-hop markets.

But may I please make one request of my right-wing brethren?  Yes, I know that eight 'Pubbies - including my very own congressman - greened themselves.  And predictably, there's Double-M whipping up a frenzy of rage, not against America's domestic enemies, but in yet another effort to shrink the GOP remnant still further.  You'll have to forgive me if I can't help but notice how utterly god-awful her timing is.  The time for purity purges is when we've flipped the House partisan alignment and can afford to toss eight seats to the four winds, not now when we're under Donk occupation.  Sheesh, even the French waited until after they'd been liberated from the Germans after World War II to carry out their vengeance against collaborators.  "Not-one-centing" Dave Reichart & friends will accomplish nothing other than to replace him with Darcy F'ing Burner and fellow-travelers, and that would be an offense committed against me that I would consider unforgiveable.

Besides, do you really think that replacing eight Republican apostates with eight Democrat extremists will improve a blessed policy thing from a center-right perspective?  And, more to the immediate point, do you seriously believe that Crazy Nancy couldn't have camel-clutched a few more "Blue Dogs" into voting "yea" if a refreshing absence of "bipartisanship" had made it necessary?

Remember how we got into this perilous predicament in the first place: tighty-righties grown so complacent about the supposed effortlessness of shucking off and putting on political power like a suit jacket that they helped torpedo their own majorities in 2006 for the sin of [drumroll please] "overspending".  One would think that looking at the fiscal apocalypse they wrought, those same tighty-righties would be looking back fondly upon those days of frugal sanity and humbly at the horrific economic consequences of their own arrogance.

Guess not.  Instead, Pachyderm cannibalism will evidently grisle on until there's nothing left of the Grand Old Party but fond, fading memories.

Ironic indeed that it would save False Messiah a lot of the trouble.  Makes me wonder if there's ANYbody in this party who truly is on its side.