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An Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield (BCBS) Medicaid document that was leaked reveals how the health insurer established a “COVID-19 Vaccine Provider Incentive program” to pay physicians for pushing COVID vaccines to their patients.

Imagine that a progressive American city creates a financial incentive for residents to “transition” from man to woman or from woman to man.That’s exactly what San Francisco has just done with a program called Guaranteed Income for Transgender People, or GIFT.This is like using a fire hose to spray a burning skyscraper with gasoline. Talk about perverse incentives.Anyone want to bet that, if this program expands, the number of San Francisco’s poor who say they identify as transgender also will expand?Of course, San Francisco already is a lab for bad policy ideas. But giving guaranteed income to low-income residents who...

ransomnote: In my opinion, the newscast is essentially performing unethical advertising for the Covid-19 'shots' extolling the incentives while making zero mention of risks or even that the 'shots' are not FDA approved and are experimental. Citizens merely discussing risks on the Internet are deemed 'dangerous' but newscasters advertising prizes and gifts to get an experimental product, without advising of the risks within the broadcase, is abhorent. The newscasters should be held liable for harm caused by the 'shots' they are promoting. COVID-19 vaccine incentives include $1M, full college scholarships - YouTube The following is the computer generated transcript of...

Left-wing comedian and producer Chelsea Handler asked on Wednesday if police officers in America are being given “some extra incentive for every person of color they kill or permanently paralyze?” “It seems like it. Welcome to America,” Handler said, referencing a report on Rusten Sheskey, the Kenosha police officer who shot Jacob Blake, returning back to work.

It takes a lot of courage for a president to target almost a quarter of the federal budget for reform in an election year. But this is exactly what President Trump is doing with his executive order, "Reducing Poverty in America by Promoting Opportunity and Economic Mobility." We're now spending more than $700 billion per year on low-income assistance, which is more than we are spending on our national defense. And there are plenty of reasons to believe this spending is inefficient, wasteful and counterproductive. Over the last half-century, some $22 trillion has been spent on anti-poverty programs and yet...

Highway express lanes provide a faster trip for carpoolers, people who drive low-emission cars, and solo travelers who are willing to pay more.ThatÂ’s the idea, anyway.But as Americans drive more miles than ever before, express lanes are facing a challenge: they are too popular. So many drivers of all kinds are using the lanes that it is increasingly difficult for transportation officials to keep them speedy.For solo drivers, the tolls in express lanes typically vary based on demand. In some places, drivers pay more during peak travel times, and in others prices go up as more cars enter the lane....

American Taxpayer Relief Act, the deal that kept us from going off the “Fiscal Cliff,” also brought back increased expensing limits for small businesses. For the 2013 tax year, the Section 179 Expensing Limit has been raised back to $500,000, the increased level in effect in 2010 and 2011 and is not reduced until the cost of section 179 property placed in service exceeds $2 Million. H.R. 8: American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012. Click this link to download the 154-page Act (better known as the "Fiscal Crisis Bill") and go to 'SEC.315. Extension of Increased Expensing Limitations and Treatment...

The FCC is moving forward with a controversial plan to entice broadcasters to give up their airwaves so they can later be auctioned off to carriers who need more spectrum to deliver mobile broadband. FCC officials expect the auction in 2014. Chairman Julius Genachowski The Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission plans to share his thinking around how the agency will conduct an auction that would take airwaves from TV broadcasters and make them available for mobile broadband. The plan to entice TV broadcasters who are currently using airwaves to give them up to the FCC, which then auctions those...

Now seems an unlikely time for handing out bonuses at bankrupt Solyndra LLC, but that’s the plan of company attorneys intending to dole out up to a half-million dollars to persuade key employees to stay put. Nearly two dozen Solyndra employees could receive bonuses ranging from $10,000 to $50,000 each under a proposal filed by Solyndra’s attorneys in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware. The attorneys say the extra money will add motivation at a time when workers at the solar company have little job security and more responsibilities because so many of their colleagues have been fired. The names of...

"The fact is the idea that tax rates have anything to do with business creation is a myth. Nobody who has a great idea and good prospects is going to not go for it because of tax rates." -quote by a Liberal

Freeper dmd25 gave me a great idea when he posted a few photos from the facts of President Bush’s T-Ball initiative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2443909/replies?c=433 So I thought I would let us go back into the memory lane and post photos of the T Ball games at the White House which we all enjoyed reading about.

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed a tax incentive for small businesses that add workers, even as Congress struggles to figure out how such an idea would work. Lawmakers have been working for several months to develop a tax credit for businesses that hire workers, but they have been unable to figure out how to do it in a way that won't be abused. Neither Obama nor his top advisers offered details Tuesday. They didn't say how big the tax break would be nor how it would be administered. Obama pledged to work on the issue with...

Saudis use cash and counseling to fight terrorism About 3,200 former militants have completed the ambitious program aimed at persuading them to disavow violent Islamist ideologies. By Caryle Murphy | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor from the August 20, 2008 edition Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - Khalid al-Hubayshi's career as an Islamic warrior came to an end with the siege of Tora Bora in Afghanistan. Ordered to retreat, he walked through snow for six days. He was captured by Pakistani forces, delivered to the Americans, and relocated to a cage in Cuba. The young Saudi's break with militant jihadi ideology...

Court: Father Can't Raise Child Despite Mother's Deception Woman Lied, Saying Baby DiedPOSTED: 7:06 am EDT June 21, 2006 RALEIGH, N.C. -- A biological father should lose his parental rights because he did not establish himself as a caregiver, even though the mother deceived the man by claiming she had a miscarriage, the state Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. Pernell Ingram argued that he had provided sufficient care to the mother to qualify as the legal father of a child born out of wedlock. The Newton Grove man said he had provided "consistent care" by frequently caring for the mother's...

Congress Helps Self to $3,100 Pay Raise By DAVID ESPO The Associated Press Friday, November 18, 2005; 11:44 PM WASHINGTON -- The Republican-controlled Congress helped itself to a $3,100 pay raise on Friday, then postponed work on bills to curb spending on social programs and cut taxes in favor of a two-week vacation.

Where's the outrage at those who hire illegal immigrants? During talk radio rants, anti-illegal immigration rallies and conservative political speeches, far more aspersions are cast at foreigners who cross our borders illegally than at Americans who provide the incentive for them to do so. Isn't that backward? Without employers willing to hire illegal immigrants, the flood crossing our borders would fall to a trickle. Individual citizens are guilty too, hiring laborers without documentation and patronizing businesses that do the same. How odd that those breaking the law to escape extreme poverty attract more ire than those breaking the law to...

Naser Hadian, professor at the faculty of law and political science at Tehran university, said the Europeans and the Americans should offer good incentives to the Islamic Republic in order to generate a debate in the country whether Iran should exercise its legitimate right to nuclear technology for peaceful purpose or accept those incentives. "If the Europeans and Americans want Iran not exercising a legitimate right, they have to offer really good incentives at security level, political level and at economic level,'' Hadian told IRNA in an interview in Brussels. At the security level, he explained, one was "extension of...

European "diplomacy" with Iran--now supported by Washington--is self-destructive. The widely hailed diplomatic effort led by Britain, France and Germany is touted as a reasonable way to settle the dispute over Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program without any losers. By enticing Iran to the negotiating table, we are told, the West can avoid a military confrontation, while Iran gains "economic incentives" that can help build its economy. But this deal--now backed also by the Bush Administration--can only strengthen Iran and turn it into a greater menace. The European deal--which is said to include the sale of civilian aircraft and membership for...

Countries the world over jockey hard to attract foreign investment. They care about it enough to make it a national priority, to send spies against their competitors, to build infrastructure, and to change laws to make their investment climate attractive. Most know of the economy-developing potential of foreign capital. The United States itself was developed this way, largely on British capital which built its great railroads, mining ventures, universities and corporations. China is now the giant of this game opf attractring foreign investment, aptly offering favorable business conditions and great opportunities to businesses the world over. But it's not just...

Dutch moving to be latest tax cuttersEurope's race for a friendlier environment for investing By Steve Goldstein, CBS MarketWatch.com Last Update: 10:51 AM ET Sept. 21, 2004 LONDON (CBS.MW) -- When the Dutch government Tuesday unveiled its corporate tax cut plan, it because just the latest in a series of fiscal policy moves by European countries seeking to woo more investment. The Netherlands has proposed to lower taxes from a current nominal rate of 34.5 percent to 30 percent by 2007, a Finance Ministry spokesman said. The nation's economy is overdue for some stimulation. Gross domestic product is on the...