California Health Care Plan A Disaster

From Jon Coupal:

"Apparently our state's second-most-powerful elected official believes there is such a thing as a free lunch. He should know that a plan that compels businesses to lay out more for labor than its market value is a tax on those businesses. It will cost businesses and, as the increased costs are passed on, it will also cost consumers, too."

"As the cost of employment goes up, workers are likely to face a second problem: fewer jobs. What is worse than no health insurance? No health insurance and no job."

"However, the issue of state-mandated and supervised health care is part of an even larger problem. That problem is powerful politicians who are committed to a government that is all things to all people, and who believe this can be accomplished without cost."

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Top 10 Junk Science Moments of 2006

#1. Some Real Inconvenient Truth.

Al Gore whipped the world into a global warming frenzy with his doomsday documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth.” I personally asked Mr. Gore to help arrange a debate between scientists about the purported climate catastrophe. He declined (twice) without explanation – leaving me to wonder why global warming alarmists are unwilling to explain why they believe in non-validated and always-wrong computer guess-timations of future climate change rather than actual temperature measurements and greenhouse-effect physics that indicate manmade emissions of greenhouse gases are not a problem.

From Steven Milloy.
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