The End Of Our Company-Paid Health Insurance

September 1, 2010

For 15 years, I have taken pride in paying the full cost of health insurance for every full-time Palisades Hudson employee who wanted it. This month marks the last time I will do that. Beginning in October, our 20 employees will make their own decisions, and their own arrangements, regarding health coverage. They can stay on our company’s plan, but they will have to pay the entire cost — ranging …

Taxing The Tan, Not The Sun

July 21, 2010

Ultraviolet light does not do anyone’s skin any favors, even when it imparts an attractive tan. And skin does not care whether light of a particular wavelength comes from a nearby star or from a fluorescent tube. But the Internal Revenue Service cares. Since July 1, the IRS has cared a lot. The recently passed health care bill has just imposed a new 10 percent “tanning tax,” which makes a …

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Be Careful What You Wish For

November 10, 2009

The health care bill that the House of Representatives approved Saturday night did two things its sponsors never intended: It virtually doomed health reform legislation for this year, and it showed how to eliminate legal abortion in the United States. We may soon see abortion opponents leading the charge for a single-payer, government-run health care system, which could refuse to provide or pay for abortions. There would be no need …

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