Author: Amy Ridenour

The Health Care Conversation Continues

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The health care conversation with Matthew Holt of the Health Care Blog (see here) continued over there Monday, with a new post in response by Matthew Holt and another by Eric Novack. Mr. Novack, who does not appear to be ...
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Fourteen-Year-Old Worker Fined $352 for Not Filing Tax Return on $3.16 Paid in Taxes

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A Pennsylvania tax collection bureau fined a teenager $352 and threatened her with arrest for not filing a local income tax return on $316 of work. Fourteen-Year-Old Worker Fined $352 for Not Filing Tax Return on $3.16 Paid in Taxes ...
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Bicycle Carriages Outlawed After Taxi Drivers Find Them Threatening to Business

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The survival of the Las Vegas pedicab industry has been threatened since the Nevada Transportation Services Authority passed regulations that mandate pedicab drivers must carry insurance and ban pedicabs altogether along the busiest - and, thus, most lucrative - sections ...
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Standing Up for Whistleblowers

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Senior Fellow Bonner Cohen stands up for whistleblowers in a McClatchy Newspapers story ...
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Kelo v. New London Update

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Tom Blumer at BizzyBlog provides a recap and and update to the events behind one of the most reviled U.S. Supreme Court decisions of recent years ...
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Universal Health Care: Universally Bad

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Speaking of the pitfalls of socialized, universal, single-payer government-run health care (its advocates keep trying out new names), I recommend the On the Fence Films website to anyone flirting with the notion of supporting the adoption of such a system ...
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Kelo v. New London Update

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Tom Blumer at BizzyBlog provides a recap and and update to the events behind one of the most reviled U.S. Supreme Court decisions of recent years. _____ Labels: Legal Reform, Property Rights, Regulatory Victims ...
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Health Care Blog Loses It, Part II

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Matthew Holt of the Health Care Blog has responded to my response to his letter on health care. Briefly, he thinks a government-run "universal" health care system, financed by taxes and run by bureaucrats, would improve health care for the ...
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Casket Salesmen Required to Have Embalming Expertise

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The Tennessee Board of Funeral Directors ordered closed a casket business offering 30 to 50 percent discounts off competitors' prices because its owner - a Baptist pastor - was not a licensed funeral director, as is mandated under Tennessee law ...
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Seattle Nixes Competition

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With a nod to economic favoritism, Seattle hands exclusive rights for removal of commercial and residential waste to two politically-connected corporations, while forbidding small local trash haulers the chance to compete legally. Seattle Eliminates Businesses for the Long Haul Ron ...
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