TaxBytes

A few weeks ago, Rep.

According to the Los Angeles Times, "several states are poised to institute new taxes on Internet access the moment the current moratorium lapses.

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You know how children, especially the strong-willed ones, will occasionally decide to test the will and determination of their parents, just to see how much they can get away with? Well, that’s pretty much where we are on the bill reauthorizing and greatly expanding the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).

No, but it does need to be better understood.

Congress is back and you know what that means: Time once again for the Democrats to push to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to up to 400 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) — a little over $80,000 a year for a family of four.

Back in California, things are heating up between the big-spending Republican governor, who wants a massive new health care program that will cost taxpayers an estimated $12 billion to get “universal health care,” and the big-spending Democrat-controlled legislature that wants to require employers to spend at least 7.

We’re hearing a lot about “moral hazard” in the news these days.

Take me out to the ballgame, Take me out to the crowd.

The conservative movement has been adrift for the past several years, in part because it was closely tied to Republicans who claimed to embrace conservative principles about limited government, lower taxes and spending, increased choice in education and health care, and on several other points.