New York collected $2,289 per person in individual state and local income tax collections in 2011, according to a new map from the Tax Foundation’s Liz Malm and Richard Borean. Using 2011 figures, the most recent tax data available, Malm and Borean calculated each state’s per capita income taxes, including both state and local collections. […]

Intolerance of ideas—whether liberal or conservative—is antithetical to individual rights and free societies. From former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg‘s commencement address at Harvard University Repressing free expression is a natural human weakness, and it is up to us to fight it at every turn. Intolerance of ideas—whether liberal or conservative—is antithetical to individual […]

Five Big Investments You Don’t Know You Have For Most Households, They Matter More Than Stocks, Bonds or Mutual Funds By Jack Hough | WSJ | May 11, 2014 When you hear the word investment, you probably think of your home, stocks and mutual funds, your retirement account, maybe your baseball-card collection. But how often […]

Strasbourg rules again: there is no human right to same-sex marriage and enshrines the traditional concept of marriage as being between a man and a woman [and] cannot be construed as imposing an obligation on the Contracting States to grant access to marriage to same-sex couples There is no human right to a same-sex marriage; human rights […]

by: SMCMA Admin   The Dallas County Medical Association and the Texas Medical Association have assembled this information about how physicians can protect themselves from the Ebola virus. Remember: You can only get Ebola from direct contact with a person who has symptoms. Signs and Symptoms Symptoms appear 2 to 21 days after exposure and […]

What If Congress Raised Taxes And Nobody Cared — Or Even Noticed? Joseph Thorndike, Forbes Contributor Two years ago, Congress raised taxes on almost every working American – and nobody cared. In fact, a lot of people didn’t even notice. That tells us something important about the way Americans view taxes. But it also tells us something […]

by Michael D. Tanner and Charles Hughes The War on Poverty is 50 years old. Over that time, federal and state governments have spent more than $19 trillion fighting poverty. But what have we really accomplished?  In a new paper, Cato scholars Michael D. Tanner and Charles Hughes argue that while the War on Poverty achieved […]

The president’s playbook when things go wrong: Deny knowledge, blame hapless subordinates Announcing Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s resignation. Reuters Potomac Watch | By Kimberley A. Strassel | The Wall Street Journal | Opinion Vice President Joe Biden lamented earlier this year that there were too many Americans stuck in a “dead-end job.” If only he […]

Subsidies aren’t enough to ease the financial pain of EHR transition for some docs. We’d all like to think that regulating electronic health records (EHR) is a good thing for everyone involved, patients and doctors, but it turns out that it’s not that simple. Dr. Oliver Korshin is an ophthalmologist in Anchorage, Alaska, and after […]

CMS will hold 2015 Medicare payments for 2 weeks By: GREGORY TWACHTMAN, Internal Medicine News Digital Network Doctors may have to wait a few extra days to get paid for Medicare services they administer, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced. Claims submitted during the first 14 days of 2015 and dated within that time […]