One of the most important issues facing states this legislative session is whether to create a health care exchange to implement the president’s health care law. States are being tempted by words like “flexibility” and very large grants from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to gain their compliance, but states that value health care freedom should resist and refuse to implement Obama’s health care exchanges.
Health care exchanges organized voluntarily by market participants are something that conservatives could support. Exchanges should function as a free-market mechanism allowing consumers to make informed health care purchasing decisions in a simple, innovative and transparent manner. Yet, the exchanges as created by Obamacare and HHS fail to meet this most basic standard.
Americans for Prosperity-Tennessee agrees with President Reagan's economic advisor, Dr. Art Laffer, that repealing the state's Death Tax would create thousands of new jobs and grow the Tennessee economy by removing the incentive for families, small business owners and farmers to invest in other states, like Florida, which do not impose a Death Tax.
Keep Tennessee's resources in Tennessee and grow our local economy.
That's the message being sent to state leaders through AFP-Tennessee's latest radio ad.
Americans for Prosperity-Tennessee agrees with President Reagan's economic advisor, Dr. Art Laffer, that repealing the state's Death Tax would create thousands of new jobs and grow the Tennessee economy by removing the incentive for families, small business owners and farmers to invest in other states, like Florida, which do not impose a Death Tax.
Dr. Art Laffer, former advisor to President Reagan and renowned economist, released a report on the state of Tennessee’s ‘Death Tax’ and concluded that had we repealed this tax 10 years ago Tennessee would be in much better economic health than it is today.
The Laffer report concluded that full repeal of the state’s Death Tax would:
The crucial vote on H.R. 10, the REINS Act, is fast approaching. By voting in favor of this important legislation on Wednesday evening, lawmakers in the House of Representatives can show Americans that they stand for checks and balances and curbing the unending stream of job-killing regulation coming out of federal agencies like the EPA and the NLRB.
Over 200 Republicans in the House have already signed on as co-sponsors to the REINS Act we can count on their votes tomorrow. However, there are about 30 Republicans that have not formally put their name on the bill, including Representative Fleischmann from right here in Tennessee.
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