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Obama’s prescription for disaster

30 Aug

Below are the prepared remarks I made at the New Jersey Doctors Tea Party meeting in Teaneck on Sunday (August 29, 2010).  The event was sponsored by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, the nation’s leading free market health care advocate.  Membership is open to physicians and the general public.  I urge you to join

Thank you Alieta for inviting me to speak today.  I missed the Doctors Tea Party event on August 7 in New Brunswick and am thrilled to be here today.   Please take notes the material presented today, it will be on the midterm.   Everything you hear today will be meaningless if the Mayan calendar is correct.

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It’s the spending and the income tax, stupid

24 Jun

The New Jersey state budget is in perpetual crisis.  Every year the governor and the legislature engage in the June 30th soap opera:  Will a budget be in place by the June 30th deadline?  Or, will there be a state shutdown because the legislature failed to pass a budget in time for the upcoming fiscal year?

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Consolidation is in the air: How about Bergen County to the City of Bergen?

12 Jun

For years governors, legislators and others have been advocating “shared services” as a way for towns to hold the line on costs and thus halt the rapid rise of property taxes that has been plaguing New Jersey municipalities for decades.   The Legislature may get an opportunity to do more than just advocate shared services; it may force Teterboro in Bergen County to be split among the four adjoining municipalities. Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Guest column, Dr. Alieta Eck

08 Jun

ObamaCare, Tried in Greece, Leads to Bankruptcy, Rioting & Bloodshed

Some people learn from others’ mistakes, and some have to “learn the hard way.”  Will America follow the lead of countries who have actually tried their own version of ObamaCare, or could we still learn from their mistakes?  In a remarkable statement, the International Monetary Fund has recommended that, before any bailouts are considered, the Greek government must privatize transportation, energy and health care to rein in costs.  The IMF recognizes that increased government involvement in health care does not save money.  It also does not lead to better health care.

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Posted in Politics, Spending, Taxes, Welfare state

 

Choose free enterprise

02 Jun

Governor Christie announced the creation of a nonprofit organization, Choose New Jersey, to help revitalize the state’s economy.  The mission of Choose New Jersey is to market New Jersey’s “strategic strengths” by making the state more attractive for businesses to relocate here and expand their operations if they are already doing business in the Garden State.

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Now they’re worried about debt?

28 May

So-called Blue Dog Democrats in the House of Representatives are worried about the latest bill to increase spending and raise taxes before the May 31st deadline, when extended unemployment benefits and Cobra health insurance subsidies expire.  The $146 billion spending bill may not be voted upon by today, the last working session before the end of the month, unless the House will meet on Memorial Day weekend–a highly unlikely situation even for the most committed welfare state advocates in Congress who want to spend, spend, and spend.

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Shameless legal plundering in Trenton

17 May

Last week, both the Assembly Budget Committee and the Senate Budget and Appropriation Committee voted along party lines to impose  a “temporary” surcharge (from 8.97 percent to 10.75 percent) on New Jerseyans who have taxable incomes of more than $1 million.   The temporary surcharge was in effect last year, and Governor Corzine and the legislature did not renew it during the lame duck session after Corzine lost his reelection bid last November.

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Guest column, Dr. Alieta Eck

14 May

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ As Illegals Take, Are Americans Free? By Alieta Eck, MD

We do not have “universal health care. We have mandatory free “health care for the universe.” A middle-aged woman came to our local emergency room, suitcase in tow, complaining of a severe headache and diminished vision. A CT scan of the head showed a brain tumor. The neurosurgeon on call was summoned and within days the patient had surgery to preserve her vision.  An inspiring story giving tribute to the wonderful ingenuity, generosity, and high standards in our country? There’s more.

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Christie’s micromanaging New Jersey. Free the cities and suburbs instead.

10 May

Chris  Christie became governor promising to “shake up Trenton”–exactly what is needed to overhaul the state budget.  He has been praised for taking on the Trenton establishment and the NJEA.  Christie, however, has been accused of being a “bully” for “waging war” on teachers, cutting school aid to the suburbs, and failing to resurrect the so-called millionaire’s tax to help close the 2011 budget gap.

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Will Arizona’s new law be a model for the nation to halt illegal immigration, or will it create a police state in America?

26 Apr

The State of Arizona has thrown down the gauntlet.  Fed up with crimes committed by illegal immigrants, Republican Governor Jan Brewer signed into law last Friday that would force immigrants to carry documents proving they are in the country legally.  In addition, the police would have the power to question and detain anyone they suspected of entering the country illegally. Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Police salaries handcuff taxpayers

19 Apr

If you think public school teachers are overpaid, The Record (Hackensack, NJ) reports that the award should go to New Jersey police officers, whose average annual salary in 2008 was nearly $80,000, 25% more than school employees and nearly double the average public employee, who made $41,267 that year.

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Let teachers run the schools

16 Apr

Governor Christie and the New Jersey Teachers Association (NJEA) are in a war of words over his call for teachers to accept a wage freeze for the 2010-2011 fiscal year.  The governor is asking teachers to forgo any salary increase so the more than $800 million cut in state aid to school districts next year would not result in teacher layoffs.  Teachers are crying foul.  “A contract is a contract and salary increases must be honored, because the sanctity of a contract cannot be violated.”

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Dishonest ads from the NJEA and the CWA

05 Apr

The New Jersey Teachers Association is running a television ad asserting that Governor Christie has “given” tax cuts to “millionaires’ instead of fully funding state aid to local school districts.  The ad featuring New Jersey’s Teacher of the Year is long on rhetoric and short on the facts.  First, the governor cannot cut anyone’s taxes.  Tax bills can be passed by the  legislature and then signed by the governor.  For taxes to be cut or raised both the legislative and executive branches have to agree to a change in the tax code.  Neither branch of government can unilaterally raise or lower taxes.

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Desperate states–from coast to coast

28 Mar

The New York Times reported on its front page (March 28) that states from coast to coast “are considering new taxes on virtually everything: garbage pickup, dating services, bowling night, haircuts, even clowns” to generate more revenue to maintain the record level of spending throughout the country.

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Obamacare will lead to “death panels”

23 Mar

President Obama signed his healthcare “reform” bill Tuesday.  The landmark law has been hailed as one of the most important pieces of legislation in the history of the Republic.  Proponents of Obamacare assert that after more than a hundred years of trying, finally, the federal government is guaranteeing virtually all Americans the right to healthcare. Read the rest of this entry »

 
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