While the individual mandate tax gets most of the attention, the ObamaCare law actually contains 20 new or higher taxes on the American people. These taxes are gradually phased in over the years 2010 (with its 10 percent “tanning tax”) to 2018 (when the tax on comprehensive health insurance plans kicks in.)
Six months from now, in January 2013, five major ObamaCare taxes will come into force:
1. The ObamaCare Medical Device Manufacturing Tax
This 2.3 percent tax on medical device makers will raise the price of (for example) every pacemaker, prosthetic limb, stent, and operating table. Can you remind us, Mr. President, how taxing medical devices will reduce the cost of health care? The tax is particularly destructive because it is levied on gross sales and even targets companies who haven’t turned a profit yet. (more…)
June 14, 2012 – Flag Day – Approximately 200 people gathered at the MacLeay Hall Grange to celebrate and remember the life of Robert (RW) “Bob” Robinson, who passed away recently, in an appropriate joint celebration of Flag Day. It was a time to honor Bob, with friends who had gone to elementary school with him, to fellow veterans of World War II. Here are a few photos:
The history of the American flag is as rich and diverse as the history of the nation it represents. It has been displayed in one-room schoolhouses and has waved in triumph on the surface of the Moon. It has been sprinkled in pieces near the North Pole. It has covered the caskets of thousands of brave military men and women. And every June 14, on Flag Day, it hangs proudly on front porches across the United States.While militiamen and regulars still fought off the British in lonely farm fields, it was clear the new United States would need its own flag to represent the country. On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress passed the following resolution: “Resolved: that the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.” The Congress detailed the meaning of the colors, writing that, “White signifies Purity and Innocence; Red, Hardiness and Valor; Blue signifies Vigilance, Perseverance and Justice.” (more…)
We honor the memory of our fallen soldiers Memorial Day 2012. Lest we forget the lives they lived and could have lived – the young men and women who served our country with the ultimate sacrifice. Without them -and those who continue to serve – our country would not be as free as it is.
Thanks to the Freedom Foundation for the following video:
