Are you a blogger in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania? Do you have Google Adsense or some other sort of low-return ads on your blog? If so expect a letter soon from your friendly city treasurer demanding that you pay a $300 tax on your “money making business.”
The more Americans learn about Obamacare, the more they don’t like it. The latest polls show six out of ten Americans are against the bill. Writing in the Lexington Herald Leader, Heritage’s Robert Moffit makes the case for the only possible fix for this flawed bill: total repeal.
The House Rules Committee met this week to figure out how to push through the DISCLOSE Act, which would impose new regulations on political speech. “True to form,” writes Heritage legal scholar Hans von Spakovsky, “the committee kept the public out of a hearing about a bill intended to promote ‘transparency’ in elections.” Despite objections from conservatives, the liberals on the committee decided that one hour was sufficient time to debate the bill. “This bill is intended to silence those whose political views the liberals don’t like,” argues von Skapovsky, who cites several examples.
