Personal Freedom and Prosperity 110: The Rule of Law A Predictable and Stable Legal Order:

After a report last week that rising insurance premiums would drive employers to dump 90 percent of workers’ health care plans by 2020, the IRS went into damage control mode using its preferred course of action: executive fiat.

There are many problems with the employer-provided health insurance model. It was first implemented as a way to get around FDR’s wage controls during the Great Depression, and by all rights should never have existed in the first place. Tying health insurance to employment. instead of a system that favors individual plans purchased by individuals. is awkward, inefficient, and in many cases unjust.

During his initial pitch for health care reform, President Obama promised Americans they could keep their health care plan, that they could keep their doctor.

States that helped carry President Obama to victory in 2012, are now suffering at the hands of his signature legislation. Democrats hoping to avoid the repercussions of Obamacare are going to have a difficult time explaining away its failures in their own friendly states. Republicans are referring to it as the Blue State Obamacare Blues, with Colorado, Hawaii, Washington D.C., Oregon, Maryland, and Massachusetts all suffering varying degrees of embarrassment.

While HHS is trying to sell their ObamaCare 'masterpiece' to the public as a beautiful Da Vinci, the actual result is looking more like one of those Salvador Dali pieces in which half of the items in the frame are melting. Different states are each running into different problems, but overall the state-level news surrounding ObamaCare over the past couple of weeks should be distressing to proponents of the law.

Personal Freedom and Prosperity 104: Taxes Diminish Personal Power Taxing beyond public safety diminishes the freedom of the person taxed. “Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.” President Calvin Coolidge

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On Friday, May 2, the White House was happy to announce the lowest US unemployment rate since September 2008. As reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, with 288,000 nonfarm jobs added to the economy, the unemployment rate dropped from 6.7% to 6.3% in April 2014.