Happening Now: The Energy for Montana Tour
The “Energy for Montana tour” is coming to a city near you! Join us for a free screening of the documentary FrackNation and get the inside scoop on what needs to be done to restore the “Treasure State.”
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FrackNation and the Energy for Montana Tour
Montana, once known as the "Treaure State," lags far behind North Dakota in oil production and Wyoming in coal and that’s got to change
Making An Impact!—A Wrap up of the 63rd Legislative Session
expansion. Big government Democrats and some Republicans tried to pass four different Medicaid expansion bills and were defeated each time.
Kriegel: Fix Medicaid, Don’t Expand It
There are many things we “know” about Medicaid that should cause concern. Medicaid already comprises 25% of our projected 2015 budget. And once expanded, there is very little likelihood of turning back, despite the sunset clause and very little incentive and likelihood of studying and improving it.
There are many things we know we don’t know about Medicaid expansion—can the system accept up to 70,000 new patients; will it drive more doctors out of private practice, will it reduce health care access; will it create a larger dependent class of young, healthy and single participants; can we depend on the federal government for full ongoing funding? These unknowns are even more disconcerting.
Joe Balyeat: Why We Should Reject Medicaid Expansion
The battle over Medicaid expansion promises to be Montana’s biggest legislative battle in the 63rd Legislative Session. There are 3 Medicaid bill hearings before the House Human Services Committee. We urge you to oppose two bills – HB 458 and HB 590, the Governor’s Medicaid Expansion bill which will be heard on Monday, March 25th. [...]
Baucus has done virtually nothing to help abolish death taxes
Few federal tax policies are as immediately revolting as the death tax. The idea that the government has the right to confiscate a set percentage of an individual’s assets after his death strikes us as downright immoral. It punishes grieving family members, adds stressful burdens both before and after death, and lets government step between the dying person and their bequest to the designated inheritors. Moreover, it’s double taxation because the deceased person already paid taxes on the income used to buy his assets. Despite promising to reduce or eliminate the death tax, Sen. Max Baucus has, in fact, increased the death tax to 40 percent.
