If You Thought SOPA Was Bad, Just Wait Until You Meet ACTA

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/01/23/if-you-thought-sopa-was-bad-just-wait-until-you-meet-acta/

Forbes: If Facebook Won’t Stop SOPA, We Can Do It For Them

http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2012/01/12/if-facebook-wont-stop-sopa-we-can-do-it-for-them/

My Scoreboard Interview on Fox Business RE the President’s jobs speech

This is my inteview on 09/08/2011 from the America’s Nightly Scoreboard show on Fox Business where we discussed the President’s jobs plan.

You can see this interview and other interviews I’ve done on my YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/davidlhatter.

Love to hear your feedback!

If you’d like to inteview me or have me speak to your group about any business/technology topic, contact me at Libertas Technologies.

Internet Sales Tax to be Introduced in US Senate

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/04/17/internet-sales-tax-introduced-senate/#ixzz1Jn7iTa1w

I was quoted and featured in this article in ComputerWorld about IT and government

Tech execs wade into the political fray

Got a big callout on the first page of the article!

Obamascare: Get used to the phrase “Soylent Green is People!”

Even former DNC Chairman Howard Dean, a medical doctor, called this “reform” plan crazy! “Reform” is in quotes because calling this reform is a lie. This is not reform, it’s a complete socialist takeover of health care with rationing of care for the old and undesirable. If it included tort reform (anathema to the greedy trial lawyers like John Edwards, who coincidentally are huge Obama/DNC donors), coupled with responsibility (people not using the emergency room when they could go to the doctor or treat themselves), the costs of medicine would plummet.

I’d be happy to tell you about the EGREGIOUS ABUSES of the welfare system I personally witnessed firsthand everyday working for 3.5 years at a pharmacy in Covington, KY. And, if this is such a great plan, why isn’t Congress and the President subject to it? As soon as they have to eat their own cooking, I might be willing to listen. But they won’t, because government health care “reform” (a government takeover of ~1/7th of the economy) will be a complete boondoggle like most government programs. Can you point to one instance of anything that government has done well in the last 3+ decades?

The intellectually honest answer is NO, and the DOZENS of videos and articles below expose the lies and show what a debacle this will be if it passes. I urge you to SEE FOR YOURSELF and answer these questions:

If the 0bamascare healthcare take over is so good, answer these questions:

1. Why are you forced to purchase “insurance”?
2. Why does it make you a criminal and send you to jail if you don’t?
3. Why is Congress not subject to the bill and able to keep their gold plated plan YOU Pay for?
4. Why all the special deals with unions and exemptions?
5. Why did Dr. Jeffrey S. Flier, Harvard Medical School Dean say: Health ‘Reform’ Gets a Failing Grade
6. Why is Howard Dean, former DNC chair and medical doctor, against it?
7. Why can’t you see the bill?
8. Why did the Senate vote on it at 1:00am on Monday?
9. Why did it barely pass in the house even though Demmunists have a large majority?
10. Why do senators need to be bribed to vote for it?
11. Why the rush since “benefits” don’t start for 4 years and yet taxes start immediately?
12. How can it possibly be Constitutional?
13. Why do polls consistently show the American people increasingly against it?
14. Can you name the last government program that was not an abject failure?

Congressman Fleming Introduces Resolution 615, make Congress use Obamacare. SIGN THIS PETITION, SPREAD THE WORD. over 500,000 Americans have signed the petition!
http://www.fleming.house.gov/index.html

VIDEO: Why Do You Have To Criminalize People To Coax Them Into A Plan That’s Fabulous! Rep Roskam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wauh96g7AeU&feature=player_embedded#

VIDEO: Congressman Mike Rogers: “Democrat Healthcare Bill Will Limit Access, Force Employess to Public Plan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlHxPqC0_Fc

WASH TIMES: Obama family health care fracas – A doctor savages his cousin Barack’s reform plan
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/11/obama-family-health-care-fracas/

Dr. Walter Williams: Is Healthcare a Right?
http://townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2010/03/10/is_health_care_a_right

VIDEO: Democrats Reveal Facts About Health Care
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J1FePMgxcI

VIDEO: Obama IN HIS OWN WORDS saying His Health Care Plan will ELIMINATE private insurance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-bY92mcOdk

VIDEO: Senator Durbin Admits Premiums Will Go Up If Health Care Bill Is Passed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7QAci-XWHY

VIDEO: Rep. John Culberson (R-TX) Says Public Option Is A Black Hole
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYIAABvz0Jg

VIDEO: Obama 07 Revelation -Health Care Reform Requires Tax Hikes — Savings Just a Theory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmqu3_9MNIw

VIDEO: Dem Congresswoman Admits Obama Health Care Plan Will Destroy Private Health Insurance Industry
http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=330913

VIDEO: Obama Admits He’s Not Familiar With Hot Topic Provision in Health Care Bill
http://www.breitbart.tv/obama-admits-hes-not-familiar-with-hot-topic-provision-in-health-care-bill/

VIDEO: House Judiciary Chair John Conyers (D): ‘What Good is Reading the [Health Care] Bill if It’s a Thousand Pages’
http://www.breitbart.tv/house-judiciary-chair-what-good-is-reading-the-health-care-bill-if-its-a-thousand-pages/

VIDEO: Barney Frank admits that they want complete gubment healtcare take over
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3BS4C9el98

VIDEO: 20/20′s John Stossel Takes on Health Care Reform
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdx_2cuPgQQ

VIDEO: Obama to Jane Sturm: Hey, take a pill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-dQfb8WQvo

VIDEO: Congressman Mike Rogers’ opening statement on Health Care reform in Washington D.C.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G44NCvNDLfc

VIDEO: Outrageous! Illegal immigrants and how they drive up our health care costs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjPBtfpn8wI

VIDEO:Gibbs Can’t Name Countries Where Single-Payer System Works
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRGYgEMwSvQ

VIDEO: Dean Shock: ObamaCare Is Trillion Dollar, No Reform, Harmful Bailout
http://www.breitbart.tv/dean-obamacare-is-trillion-dollar-no-reform-harmful-bailout-but/

NY Post: ObamaCare vs. the Constitution
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/obamacare_vs_the_constitution_n5KcxkRr3nyROy05VtvSsO

Denver Post: The backroom deal to exempt unions from new taxes is a joke. Sen. Bennet should show his independence and kill the bill
http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_14202477

Seating Mass. Senate winner could be delayed because of 0bamascare
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9D72N2O0&show_article=1

NYT: Narrow Senate Race Unnerves Democrats on Health Care
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/16/us/politics/16dems.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Sicker by the day: Health care reform gets a little weaker with each ugly deal
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/01/17/2010-01-17_sicker_by_the_day.html

NY Post: President Obama gives unions a sweetheart deal on health care — and everyone else the shaft
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/no_taxes_please_we_re_democrats_uUjHMALRMQBL4P6CHkBKhN

AJC: Final frantic run for health care
http://www.ajc.com/business/final-frantic-run-for-275977.html

Union Leader: Healthy by force: Nanny will keep you fit
http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Healthy+by+force%3a+Nanny+will+keep+you+fit&articleId=a57549b1-5806-42e6-b96b-2a21318f5d8c

Senators Call Healthcare Bill Unconstitutional
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/constitution/2678-senators-call-healthcare-bill-unconstitutional

WSJ: Why the Health-Care Bills Are Unconstitutional
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703278604574624021919432770.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read

NRO: Obamacare is the fast-track to a permanent left-of-center political culture
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YjU5OTJmODE4MGM5YmNiZDEyZDU5ZWU3NThhYjdmNGY=

Newsweek: Obama’s Malpractice – Why the health-care bill isn’t reform
http://www.newsweek.com/id/222795

WSJ: Dr. Jeffrey S. Flier (Harvard Medical School Dean): Health ‘Reform’ Gets a Failing Grade – WSJ.com
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704431804574539581994054014.html

Congressman John Fleming, M.D., Comments on Senate Health Care Legislation Final Passage
http://www.fleming.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=24&sectiontree=23,24&itemid=254

WSJ: Joe Leiberman – No Way, No How, to the Public Option
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704007804574574652325364622.html

Health bill would leave millions uninsured
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34664303/ns/politics-washington_post

Why the Health-Care Bills Are Unconstitutional
http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/2010/01/03/why-the-health-care-bills-are-unconstitutional/

NY POST: DEADLY DOCTORS – O ADVISERS WANT TO RATION CARE
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/item_PU6S0iok2FbS368B7d7mAM

Dr. Elaina George: Truth and Consequences of Health Care Reform
http://biggovernment.com/2009/11/15/truth-and-consequences-of-health-care-reform/

Report: ObamaCare Would Reduce Care For Seniors
http://biggovernment.com/2009/11/15/report-obamacare-would-reduce-care-for-seniors/

Obamacare Puts One-Fifth of U.S. On Welfare
http://blog.heritage.org/2009/11/16/obamacare-puts-one-fifth-of-us-on-welfare/

Unhappy Docs Push AMA to Drop Support for House Health Bill
http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2009/11/09/unhappy-docs-push-ama-to-drop-support-for-house-health-bill

Obamacare is a Devastating Tax on the Working Class
http://mises.org/daily/3855

Interview with the President: Jail Time for Those without Health Care Insurance?
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/11/interview-with-the-president-jail-time-for-those-without-health-care-insurance.html

In Writing: Under ObamaCare, If You Don’t Buy Health Insurance, You Could Go To Jail
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2009/09/26/writing-under-obamacare-if-you-dont-buy-health-insurance-you-could-go-ja

Committee Confirms: Comply With Pelosi-Care Or Go To Jail
http://biggovernment.com/2009/11/06/committee-confirms-comply-with-pelosi-care-or-go-to-jail/

WSJ: What the Pelosi Health-Care Bill Really Says
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704795604574519671055918380.html?mod=wsj_share_facebook

WSJ: The Rationing Commission – Meet the unelected body that will dictate future medical decisions
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703792304574504020025055040.html?mod=wsj_share_facebook

FACT CHECK: Health insurer profits not so fat
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20091025/D9BI4D6O1.html

WSJ: The Worst Bill Ever – Epic new spending and taxes, pricier insurance, rationed care, dishonest accounting: The Pelosi health bill has it all
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703399204574505423751140690.html

40 GOP Senators Sign Letter to Reid Demanding Internet Posting of Healthcare Bill
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/10/29/40-gop-senators-send-letter-reid-demanding-internet-posting-healthcar

NY POST: Health bill’s bitter pill for small business
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/health_bill_bitter_pill_for_small_bBVwtjeemNpi5lLIKdqogL

Pelosi Health Care Takeover Contains More than 100 New Bureaucracies
http://freedomproject.org/Blog/Read.aspx?GUID=568e5028-e232-4073-974a-a747ec62797a

NRO: Why the “46 million” figure is profoundly misleading
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NTQxNjQ0YzJjMThlMmJmNzFiZmY4MDI2Yjc2MzNkOWQ=

It’s alive! End-of-life counseling in health bill
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091030/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_death_panels

Pelosi Health Care Bill Blows a Kiss to Trial Lawyers
http://biggovernment.com/2009/10/30/pelosi-health-care-bill-blows-a-kiss-to-trial-lawyers/

Health care plan hits rich with big tax increases
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091102/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_taxes

Doctors admit to practising ‘slow euthanasia’ on terminally-ill patients
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1223616/Doctors-admit-practising-slow-euthanasia-terminally-ill-patients.html#ixzz0VI82ltpE

Rep. Ted Poe: Halloween Healthcare: Trick or Treat?
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34195

Obamacare: Startling New Revelations Scare Public
http://townhall.com/columnists/FloydandMaryBethBrown/2009/10/29/obamacare_startling_new_revelations_scare_public

Chicago Tribune: Privately, Barack Obama strongly backs public option
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-tc-nw-healthcare-obama-1003-oct04,0,4247371,full.story

Associate Press: Higher taxes in health care bill
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gnysT9_pxMwvpDM2YjJZCyRe4EYQD9B5ROL00

Plumber with shattered arm left horrifically bent out of shape has operation ‘cancelled four times’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1218927/Plumber-shattered-arm-left-horrifically-bent-shape-operation-cancelled-times.html#ixzz0TMFn8yTp

Washington Times: Death panels by proxy
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/25/death-panels-by-proxy/?source=newsletter_opinion_photo_feature

Senator Cornyn: Do Health Care Reformers Fear A Reading Public?
http://cornyn.enews.senate.gov/common/mailings/index.cfm?sniv=2100046098.1275895.1.1

Dick Morris: How Much Obamacare Costs the Average Family
http://townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2009/10/19/how_much_obamacare_costs_the_average_family

Congress Keeps Gold-Plated Health Care… For Themselves
http://townhall.com/columnists/JillianBandes/2009/10/19/congress_keeps_gold-plated_health_care_for_themselves?page=full

Massachusetts goes for rationing?
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/10/12/massachusetts-goes-for-rationing/

The Real Cost of the Baucus Bill: $2 Trillion+
http://www.cato.org/pressroom.php?display=ncomments&id=287

Senator Thune Challenges Finance Committee Bill Price Tag: Fully implemented 10-year cost is $1.8 Trillion
http://healthfreedomblog.com/?page_id=31

WSJ: It took the Germans 125 years to figure out that their health-care system doesn’t work.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703746604574461573950211460.html

WSJ: The health-care industry learns the price of appeasing Congress
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704107204574469100132608102.html

Wait for benefits is 3 years if health care passes
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091010/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_waiting_time

WSJ: Escape to Montana – Canadians seek a private option.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704471504574443253009607932.html?mod=rss_opinion_main

Doctors Overwhelmingly Disagree with Government Takeover
http://www.joinpatientsfirst.com/?p=664

Many Doctors Fear Gov’t Takeover of Health Care
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/healthscience/2009/July/Many-Doctors-Fear-Gov-Takeover-of-Healthcare/

Finance Committee Democrat Won’t Read Text of Health Bill, Says Anyone Who Claims They’ll Understand It ‘Is Trying to Pull the Wool Over Our Eyes’
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/54930

Mises Institute: A Free-Market Guide to Fixing Healthcare
http://mises.org/story/3737

USA Today: Pelosi and Hoyer – ‘Un-American’ attacks can’t derail health care debate
http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/08/unamerican-attacks-cant-derail-health-care-debate-.html

REASON: Obama’s Health Care Plan: Put Up and Shut Up – More broken promises from the candidate of change
http://www.reason.com/news/show/136014.html

Doctors March for Health Care Reform
http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/100109_doctors_march_for_health_care_reform

IBD: 45% Of Doctors Would Consider Quitting If Congress Passes Health Care Overhaul
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=506199

Congressman Geoff Davis: Health plan opens door for illegals

MillionMedMarch: A physician grassroots movement to re-establish honor, dignity and worth to the medical profession
http://www.millionmedmarch.com/

IBD: A Canadian Doctor Describes How Socialized Medicine Doesn’t Work
http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_ibd-canadian_doctor_describes_how.htm

WASH TIMES: Obama: Legalize illegals to get them health care
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/18/obama-ties-immigration-to-health-care-battle/?feat=home_cube_position1

As many as one in six patients treated in NHS hospitals and GPs’ surgeries is being misdiagnosed, experts have warned.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6216559/One-in-six-NHS-patients-misdiagnosed.html

‘Junk science’ expert sounds alarm on insurance study (Steve Milloy from JunkScience.com)
http://washingtontimes.com/weblogs/back-story/2009/sep/17/junk-science-expert-sounds-alarm-insurance-study/

AP SPIN METER: $2 trillion in health savings? Where?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090921/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_health_care_missing_savings

WSJ: Get ready for Detroit-style labor relations in our hospitals. Forced Unionization!
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203440104574400571702189240.html

UK: Patients with terminal illnesses are being made to die prematurely under an NHS scheme to help end their lives, leading doctors have warned.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6127514/Sentenced-to-death-on-the-NHS.html

WSJ: Medicare for Dummies – Contradictions worthy of the Marx Brothers
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203440104574404893691325078.html

USA Today fact-checks Obama’s town-hall assertions
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/12/usa-today-fact-checks-obamas-town-hall-assertions/

Fact Checking the White House Video: Why Millions of Americans Will Lose Their Private Coverage
http://blog.heritage.org/2009/09/08/fact-checking-the-white-house-video-why-millions-of-americans-will-lose-their-private-coverage/

Fact-Checking the President on Health Insurance – His tales of abuse don’t stand scrutiny
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203440104574409501904118682.html

Fines proposed for going without health insurance
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090908/D9AJCL500.html

Ohio Rep aims to stop Obamacare
http://cincinnati.com/blogs/politics/2009/08/26/lebanon-rep-aims-to-stop-obama-plan/

WSJ: The Death Book for Veterans
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204683204574358590107981718.html

Surgeons cut into ObamaCare
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/s_641636.html

WSJ: White House health-care adviser Ezekiel Emanuel blames the Hippocratic Oath for the ‘overuse’ of medical care
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203706604574374463280098676.html

UK: The babies born in hospital corridors: Bed shortage forces 4,000 mothers to give birth in lifts, offices and hospital toilets
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1209034/The-babies-born-hospital-corridors-Bed-shortage-forces-4-000-mothers-birth-lifts-offices-hospital-toilets.html

CBS: Democratic Health Care Bill Divulges IRS Tax Data
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/08/26/taking_liberties/entry5268079.shtml

BAKER FILES FLORIDA HEALTH CARE FREEDOM ACT
http://centralfloridapolitics.com/2009/07/29/baker-files-florida-health-care-freedom-act/

Without Aid, Union Health Plans Face Failure
http://www.jaxobserver.com/2009/08/24/without-aid-union-health-plans-face-failure/

What If ObamaCare Had a Rally and Nobody Showed Up? St. Louis Edition
http://biggovernment.com/2009/11/14/what-if-obamacare-had-a-rally-and-nobody-showed-up-st-louis-edition/

20/20′s John Stossel: 47 Million Uninsured?
http://blogs.abcnews.com/johnstossel/2009/07/47-million-uninsured.html

UK HEALTH CARE: ‘Clearly there is systemic failure’…
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/ian-birrell-why-i-dont-believe-that-the-nhs-is-sacrosanct-1775088.html

Detriot Free Press: Canadians visit U.S. to get health care
http://freep.com/article/20090820/BUSINESS06/908200420/1319/

Forbes: The governor’s (Romney) program is hardly a model for the nation–it’s a mess
http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/06/mitt-romney-health-care-gop-opinions-columnists-peter-robinson.html

Bloomberg: Obama Says Grandmother’s Hip Replacement Raises Cost Questions
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aGrKbfWkzTqc

Congressman Geoff Davis: Health reform looks nightmarish
http://nky.cincinnati.com/article/AB/20090819/NEWS0103/308190013/Davis++Health+reform+looks+nightmarish

Physicians speak out on health care bill – Many say the costly plan won’t fix problems
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6563705.html

Lawrenceville doctor a spokesman against health care reform plan
http://www.ajc.com/news/gwinnett/lawrenceville-doctor-a-spokesman-106110.html

WASH TIMES: EDITORIAL: Health ‘efficiency’ can be deadly
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/11/health-efficiency-can-be-deadly/

NYP: DEADLY DOCTORS – O ADVISERS WANT TO RATION CARE
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/11/health-efficiency-can-be-deadly/

WASH TIMES: EDITORIAL: Obama’s mad science adviser
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/16/obamas-mad-science-adviser/

AARP Faces Backlash From Seniors Over Health Care Reform Stance
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/10/aarp-faces-backlash-seniors-health-care-reform-stance/

WSJ: Fannie Med – The bipartisan Senate negotiators are leaning toward proposing a health-care Fannie Mae
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204619004574318474224065070.html

Obamacare: The “Post Office” of Health Care Plans
http://blog.heritage.org/2009/08/11/obamacare-the-post-office-of-health-care-plans/

Veterans groups have ‘grave concerns’ on health bill
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/veterans-groups-have-grave-concerns-on-health-bill-2009-07-31.html

The Mad Scientist at the White House
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/07/21/john-holdren-reason-fear-obamacare/

Obamacare to Come: Seven Bad Ideas for Health Care Reform
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10218

WaPo: What President Obama needs to tell the public about the cost of reform
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/25/AR2009072501949_pf.html

Obama’s Misleading Medicine
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/07/27/obamas_misleading_medicine_97633.html

CNN: 5 freedoms you’d lose in health care reform
http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/24/news/economy/health_care_reform_obama.fortune/index.htm?section=money_news_economy

Doctors Wage War Against Obama’s Health Care Overhaul
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/22/doctors-wage-war-obamas-health-care-overhaul/

WSJ: Repealing Erisa
http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=121419809016&h=YAXky&u=rd4tL&ref=mf

NYP: O’S BROKEN PROMISES
http://www.nypost.com/php/pfriendly/print.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nypost.com%2Fseven%2F07172009%2Fpostopinion%2Fopedcolumnists%2Fos_broken_promises_179667.htm

Obamacare: It’s Even Worse Than You Think
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/764zjvvu.asp

Dr. Walter Williams: How Did We Ever Make It Before Nanny Government?
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=2962

Shona Holmes Interview on Fox News – How Canadian Healthcare almost Killed Her
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBJGTcfcWGo

The U.S. Chamber’s take:
http://www.uschamber.com/issues/letters/2009/090715healthact.htm

House healthcare talks break down in anger
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/house-healthcare-talks-break-down-in-anger-2009-07-24.html

Weekly Standard: Obama Loves Mayo, But Mayo Does Not Love Him:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/07/obama_loves_mayo_but_mayo_does.asp

Investor’s Business Daily: It’s Not An Option (Private Insurance)
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=332548165656854

NY POST: RATIONING ‘RIGHTS’- AFTER HEALTH CARE, WHAT NEXT?
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WAPO: CBO Chief Says Democrats’ Proposals Lack Necessary Controls on Spending
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/16/AR2009071602242.html

Howard Dean: “to change [health care] to a totally public plan is crazy”
http://reason.com/blog/show/134749.html

CBO deals new blow to health plan
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/25415.html

WASH TIMES Editorial: The mother of unfunded mandates – Someone has to pay for health care ‘savings’
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/21/the-mother-of-unfunded-mandates/

(Gov.) Perry raises possibility of states’ rights showdown with White House over healthcare
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Good Dog? Conservatives Within Obama’s Own Party Snarling Health Plan
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NY POST: PERILS OF OBAMACARE: THE THREE BIG LIES
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IBD: Reformers’ Claims Just Don’t Add Up
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Enquirer Story about KY HB 347

Pat Crowley @ The Cincinnati Enquirer did a great story that points out the problems with KY House Bill 347, which is now in the Kentucky Senate A&R committee.

http://nky.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20090226/NEWS0103/902260366

 

Press Release on KY HB 347 from KYITA

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

KY State House Voting yet another Tax Increase during Recession

Frankfort, Kentucky – 2/23/09- In a time when Kentucky businesses and citizens are fighting to survive, the KY House wants to rush a vote on HB 347 which dramatically increases the reach of sales tax into digital media and related services. 

The addition of this new Sales Tax will

·         Make all Kentucky businesses less competitive by driving up costs which are passed onto consumers.

·         Double the tax burden on businesses during a recession

·         Burden small businesses with unknown compliance tracking requirements and costs.

·         Cut high paying Kentucky jobs as businesses leave for friendlier states.

·         Be a direct contradiction to the stated economic goals of Vision 2015 and the KY Dept of Economic Development

“An unnecessary tax increase during these tough economic times is not good for business,” says Chris Sturm, Board Member of the Kentucky Information Technology Alliance (KYITA) and a KY small business owner.   

HB347 extends 6% sales tax to new areas including digital property and related services.  HB 347 defines related services in vague terms that could reach virtually any industry that provides products or services over the Internet such as banking and accountants. 

Tier 1 Performance located in Covington, KY is recognized as the 2009 Connect Kentucky Small Technology Business of Year and has created over 40 high paying jobs.  Normand Desmarais, Chairman and Cofounder, commented that, “An increase in taxes definitely influences our ability to create new jobs.  Tier 1 wants to help Kentucky build a pro business community that invites and encourages business growth.  Tax increases create a barrier to growth and could act as a disincentive to bring other technology based companies to Kentucky.

The KY House of Representatives is considering a vote on HB347 as soon as Wednesday.  Many organizations such as the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce are in opposition of the tax increase in HB347.  Contact your KY representative by calling 1-800-372-7181 or visit http:///www.lrc.state.ky.us to find your legislators.
To read the proposed bill go to http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/09RS/HB347.htm.

 

Contact:
Chris Sturm

859-630-7038

csturm@capitalsoftwareinc.com

KY HB 347 is Bad for Kentucky Businesses… All Businesses

If you do business in Kentucky and conduct business over the Internet, even in a tertiary way, you need to understand the negative ramifications this bad bill could have on your business!

House Bill 347  dramatically redefines eligibility for sales and use tax and a review by Northern Kentucky business leaders of the byzantine language of this bogus bill has led many of us to conclude that if could increase taxes on any business that provides a product or service over the Internet.

Stop for a moment and imagine any or all of the following items subject to new taxes:

• Electronic media such as a  webinar you conduct for clients
• Service contracts your business offers to customers that involves service or products through the Internet
• Ongoing service provided for a digital product purchased or services through the Internet
• Downloading your bank account reconciliation information
• Uploading information to your accountant
• Exchanging contracts with your attorney
• Software as a Service (SaaS) applications
• Stock photography services
• Web services and EDI based services that exchange information between companies
• Information available for purchase from newspapers and magazine
• Who know what else greedy politicians who have an insatiable thirst for your money might try to tax under this bill!

Due to the vague, open-ended language of this bill, it seemingly could be construed to cover virtually anything provided through the Internet.  Even if the language is not as open-ended as is currently appears, your costs may go up substantially due to the need to have more accountants and attorneys review every single business transaction to ensure that they are not subject to this new tax! New costs that businesses simply don’t need and can’t afford!

Northern Kentucky Tech leaders are painfully aware of the chilling effect this bill will have on business and job creation, especially in light of the current recession. Chris Sturm, President of Capital Software (one of our business partners) said “Taxes if not kept in check tend to expand not contract.  This type of legislation seems to directly contradict all the incentives the state is putting in place to draw new businesses to Kentucky. ” I couldn’t agree more!

Apparently, the legislators on the A&R committee who voted this bill out of committee 19-3 last Tuesday do not understand that this bad legislation completely contradicts the efforts of other business and government leaders to bring new jobs to Kentucky and is in clear opposition to the stated goal of Vision2015 to create 50,000 new high paying jobs in Northern Kentucky. Many of these 50,000 new jobs would by necessity be tech jobs and this bill will help to ensure that goal is NEVER REACHED! 

This goal will not be reached because the paying jobs they hope to create are not bound by traditional geographic boundaries.  With web-based collaboration and communications, these jobs can exist anyplace.  And as such, these jobs will naturally gravitate toward business friendly environments with likeminded thinkers and talent.   Not only is this bill counter to the goals of Vision 2015, but it also runs counter to Kentucky’s own Department of Commercialization and Innovation, which is funded by tax dollars to enable high technology companies.

 In fact, any business owner who is already burdened with cumbersome, unnecessary regulations and punitive taxation knows that this bill and others like it, especially when our econony is already in tatters, will most likely produce the following results:

• Businesses that can will pass the new cost onto consumers, causing them to purchase less and resulting in a new loss in revenue and taxes.
• Jobs will be cut to offset the overhead of the new tax and the cost of complying with it.
• Kentucky will lose businesses that elect to move to a business friendly state to avoid taxes, and for tech businesses, the very kind that we claim we want more of, location is not important and moving is easy!

The Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, seeing the potentially dire consequences of this bill, took emergency action at a board meeting last week and voted unanimously to oppose this bill (for the sake of disclosure, I am a Chamber Board member).

 Again if you do business in Kentucky, this bogus bill could significantly increase your costs.  I urge you to read House Bill 347 and immediately call your representative at 1-800-372-7181. You can leave a message for any Kentucky official expressing your concern for Kentucky businesses and jobs. Alternatively, you can find your legislators and read the text of any bill through the LRC web site at: http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/Legislators.htm.

***UPDATE***

This bad bill passed yesterday in the house along party lines with the final vote being 69 -25 and 6 not voting.

Yes votes 
 Royce Adams (D), Dry Ridge
Dennis Keene (D), Wilder
Tom McKee (D), Cynthiana
Rick Rand (D), Bedford
Arnold Simpson, Covington

No votes:
Joe Fischer (R), Ft. Thomas
Tom Kerr (R), Taylor Mill
Adam Koenig (R), Erlanger
Sal Santoro (R), Boone Co.
Alecia Webb-Edgington (R), Ft. Wright
Addia Wuchner (R), Burlington

Please thank the represenatives who votes against this bill! 

Now we need to turn our attention to the Senate!  It looks like the bill will head to the Senate A&R Committee, whose members are listed below:

APPROPRIATIONS & REVENUE (S)
Sen. Charlie Borders (R), Chair
Sen. Bob Leeper (I), Vice Chair
Sen. David E. Boswell (D)
Sen. Tom Buford (R)
Sen. Denise Harper Angel (D)
Sen. Ernie Harris (R)
Sen. Dan Kelly (R)
Sen. Alice Forgy Kerr (R)
Sen. Vernie McGaha (R)
Sen. R.J. Palmer II (D)
Sen. Joey Pendleton (D)
Sen. Tim Shaughnessy (D)
Sen. Brandon Smith (R)
Sen. Robert Stivers II (R)
Sen. Gary Tapp (R)
Sen. Elizabeth Tori (R)
Sen. Jack Westwood (R)

Please contact your senator and the members of the A&R committee and tell this to oppose this bad bill!

Finally, if you’d like to join our growing coalition of Northern Kentucky business and tech leaders who are working to stop this bill, please e-mail me at dhatter@lilbertastechnologies, or call me at 859-912-2399.