Labor, Education & Pensions Issues
May 28, 2013 JHealthcare & entitlements, Labor, Education & Pensions
ACTION ALERT To all Arizona Taxpayers and Health Care Freedom Fighters: Governor Jan Brewer’s proposed expansion of Medicaid under ObamaCare may soon go to the House Appropriations Committee. We feel confident that the Republicans on the Committee will vote unanimously against the ObamaCare (“OBrewerCare”?) Medicaid expansion, but they will be under intense pressure from the [...]
May 02, 2013 JLabor, Education & Pensions, Taxes
(Read the meeting transcript here) Dear Phoenix Taxpayer, At the Wednesday (May 1) meeting of the Phoenix City Council, eight out of the nine council members voted to put one cent of the two-cent city food tax on the road to repeal by January 1, 2014. Thanks to those members (listed below) and thanks to all of [...]
April 30, 2013 JLabor, Education & Pensions, Taxes
ACTION ALERT Dear Phoenix Taxpayer, At the Wednesday (May 1) meeting of the Phoenix City Council, one of the motions on the table will be to repeal one cent of the never-ending two-cent city food tax, with a firm repeal date of January 1, 2014. Please urge your city council members (email contacts below) to [...]
April 02, 2013 JHealthcare & entitlements, Labor, Education & Pensions
Legislative Update: 2 April 2013 Dear Arizona Taxpayer, The biggest fight of the year at the Arizona Legislature continues to be the battle over the proposed expansion of Medicaid/AHCCCS under ObamaCare. This afternoon (Tuesday, April 2, at 4 pm), a coalition of doctors and other health care professionals (please join us, if you’re in the [...]
March 22, 2013 JLabor, Education & Pensions, Taxes
Thanks to the Wall Street Journal for its great piece on efforts by Arizona judges to block much-needed pension reforms. Political Diary Unequal Protection