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State’s Strand of Budget Worry Beads Capped by Expanded Medicaid
Call them the Secretary of Finance’s worry beads. It is easy to imagine Aubrey Layne putting his fingers on one bead on the strand after another as he asks the economic powers outside his control to smile on Virginia and … Continue reading
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Voters Should Say “No” to New Carbon Tax
Virginia should not join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Virginia’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) carbon tax is now fully authorized under a new state regulation, and the deadline to appeal that regulation has passed with no … Continue reading
Calling It What It Is: A $450 Million Windfall Tax Hike!
Virginia state government ended Fiscal Year 2019 awash in cash largely for one reason: A $466 million tax increase that fell on about 30 percent of individual taxpayers, caused by conforming to the new federal tax law without any corresponding … Continue reading
Real Medicare Doesn’t Match Political Promises
We had been on Medicare exactly two days when our first premium increase notice arrived, a nice healthy 5% jump. This isn’t the Medicare Heaven that I keep hearing about from the presidential contenders. I want that Medicare, the idyllic … Continue reading
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Sense and Nonsense on Climate Armageddon
A good sense discussion on the Most Important Threat in Human History was provided July 14 in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, in a guest column from a retired University of Richmond biology professor. Few discussions of the climate change controversy have … Continue reading
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