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President Obama has stepped up his rhetoric against the health care system, but fiscal deficiencies in his plan for a government take over have become increasingly apparent in recent weeks. Now, some on Capitol Hill are toying with the idea of taxing employee health benefits to subsidize the cost of government-provided care. But, as Americans learned during the collapse of GM, many union labor agreements provide extremely generous benefit packages to workers who are unlikely to support any proposal that might put their compensation at risk.

Confused by all the soundbites flying around the Hill on health care?  Worry no longer.  Writing at the Wall Street Journal George Newman succinctly (and simply) takes apart the heath care debate spin.

“Forty-five million people in the U.S. are uninsured.”

Even if this were true (many dispute it) should we risk destroying a system that works for the vast majority to help 15% of our population?

Just when you thought we had enough, the ghost of Eliot Spitzer reappears.

FreedomWorks Congressional Action Team member Alice Click was published over the weekend as a guest commentator in the Hinton News.  The article, “How do Higher Energy Costs Help Open Idle Steel Mills or Struggling Auto Makers” nailed the crux of the debate: the legislation kills jobs.  Click went on to urge readers to contact Sen. Rockefeller.

It looks as if President Obama and Congress could take a few economics lessons from Chancellor Angela Merkel. While the US is going to try to spend her way out of the financial crisis by putting more taxes on the American people to finance the stimulus package, Chancellor Merkel has opted for the path less-traveled—the more laissez-faire path that is.

If the taxes the Waxman-Markey bill would effectively levy on Americans were not enough to delight you, then a provision this bill contains that would further alienate China - just as several pieces of recent news suggest a trade war with China might be brewing - ought to do the trick.

Beneath the surface of a Cap and Tax debate that has only just begun to rage in this country, a basic premise is largely being taken for granted.

Just got some pictures from this weekend’s anti-cap and tax protests in Escondido, California and Lavonia, Georgia. Thanks to FreedomWorks member and speaker Mason Weaver for sending the pics from California along. And thanks to FreedomWorks volunteer leader Delores Gresham for sending along the pics from Georgia!

This past Saturday, June 27, a group of Temecula, CA free-market activists led by Bridget Blanton staged a spur of the moment protest against the cap and trade legislation that passed the House the previous evening.  The demonstrators urged passerby to get involved and call their Senators as the legislation progresses.