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On the Money: Upper-income bracket to see Medicare tax hike

by Rob Kieckhefer, for BizTimes Published June 11, 2010 Because of several provisions within the recently approved federal health care reform package, employers may want to review their executive compensation program. The new law contains a provision that introduces a 3.8-percent Medicare tax on the lesser of net investment income or the excess of modified…

Health Care Reform Just Delayed Inevitable Pain

by Peter J. Fotos Many Americans would like to believe the health care debate is over, but in reality it is only beginning. The political left is rolling out $125 million over the next five years for a public propaganda effort in support of President Barack Obama’s new health care regime. Here is what we…

Research & Commentary: Health Care Reform May Kill HSAs

by Ben Domenech The question keeps coming up from concerned citizens: “Under President Barack Obama’s new health care regime, what’s going to happen to my health savings account (HSA)?” The answer is that the popular accounts will still exist, but in what could be a very different form. Under Obama’s law, HSAs will be dramatically…

U.S. Government/ Petro Connections

by Karl P. Koenigs The following is a letter that I have sent to the Washington Post and the New York Times. I have heard about unscrupulous connections between BP / Center for American Progress (CAP) / George Soros / Petro-Bras / John Podesta (of the Obama Administration) / Tony Podesta (Lobbyist for BP) /…

Steve’s Say…

The Greatest Man-Made Disaster The situation we have been watching in the Gulf of Mexico over the last two months has brought forth the greatest man-made disaster I have seen in my lifetime. Even today as I write this piece the crude oil and methane continue to spew forth from the pipe remnant sticking out…