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“When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands that have connected them with another … a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

One of the more contentious issues to emerge so far in the health care reform debate is what President Obama has referred to as the “public plan.

President Barack Obama and the U.

So now the Democrat-controlled Congress is pumping money out of Washington in an effort to stem a catastrophe—and lots of bad press.

The New York Times reports that the Obama administration is open to the idea of taxing some employee health insurance benefits.

“If we want to create jobs and rebuild our economy, then we must address the crushing cost of healthcare this year, in this administration,” President Barack Obama recently claimed.

The election of Barack Obama has sometimes been characterized as a return of John F.

We thought we should highlight a recent USA Today story because, well, the public needs to know … and the politicians are trying to ignore it.

It is now officially President Barack Obama’s economy.

In 2001 the federal estate tax, more accurately dubbed the “death tax,” assessed a levy of 55 percent on savings left at death over $1 million.