Posted on 03/01/2010 7:42:07 AM PST by nycteacher
The Alliance for a Healthier New York, a coalition of labor unions, health care, religious and non-profit groups that support the so-called "fat tax" on sugary drinks proposed by Gov. David Paterson, has launched a statewide campaign urging the Legislature to pass the measure.
The "Just a Few Pennies" campaign includes a "significant buy" statewide of print, radio, and TV ads, as well as an on-line component (linked above), according to the coalition's spokesman, Jonathan Rosen.
The TV ad starts airing today and will continue to run over the next three weeks
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
cigarette smokers know that “just a few pennies” will become “just a few dollars”.
what ever happenned to FREEDOM?????
These ads have been on the radio here in Buffalo the last week or so. Both sides. We already pay a bottle deposit. NY needs to quit taxing us to death!
I had to look up why tax software was showing my son owed NYS income tax when US tax was -0-. Did you know you can make only $13 in NYS before they want some tax money? The tax rate at $13 is 8%.
I left UPstate NY 22 years ago primarily because I could see the ‘writing on the wall’ on the future of NY State due to the ridiculous amount of taxes being imposed on the population.
We are working on the house NOW so we can get it on the market as our youngest two (his & mine) graduate from HS. We are OUTTA here as soon as we can sell it! Texas here we come! I just hope they don’t “close the borders” before we can get there.
The FAT POLICE won’t be happy until every one is riding an exercise bike and eating a celery stick for 8 hrs a day!
OBAMANOMICS—TRICKLE DOWN DESTRUCTION of the economy
SET THEIR LOCAL AND DC LINES ON FIRE!
PLEASE ASK THEM TO REPEAL THE BIG NEW FEES in TRICARE for Life, the retired Military over 65 secondary health ins. which they passed in a DOD bill. They promised our Military these benefits, and our Military have earned them.
Bambi doesn’t keep his promises...so buyer beware!
Sen Scott Brown’s number is 202-224-4543
Capitol Hill switchboard is 202-224-3121
Lots of local demwit phone numbers on this thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2408217/posts
Rename, repackage, rewrite it a tad smaller, and sell another pig in a poke. NO COLAs for granny, retired Military or retired fed employees. BIG NEW fees for Tricare for Life retired over 65 Military’s secondary health ins.
(DOD bill already passed, delayed but goes into effect 2011 NEEDS TO BE REPEALED!
OBAMA’s WAR ON SENIORS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2433867/posts/
New Dem mantra: Woof, woof eat dog food granny....ala let them eat cake. http://www.lifenews.com/bio3058.html
Friday, February 19, 2010
Obama says slight fix will extend Social Security
http://townhall.com/news/us/2010/02/19/obama_says_slight_fix_will_extend_social_security
Health Care Rationing for Seniors Another Problem in New Obama Plan http://www.lifenews.com/bio3058.html
Medicare tax may apply to investment income (ObamaCare tax hike)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2460988/posts
SOCIALIZED MED THREAD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2461394/posts
TRI CARE FOR LIFE This from a google search:
http://economicspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/05/tricare-for-life-is-obama-trying-to.html
This option would help reduce the costs of TFL, as well as costs for Medicare, by introducing minimum out-of pocket requirements for beneficiaries. Under this option, TFL would not cover any of the first $525 of an enrollee’s cost-sharing liabilities for calendar year 2011 and would limit coverage to 50 percent of the next $4,725 in Medicare cost sharing that the beneficiary incurred. (Because all further cost sharing would be covered by TFL, enrollees could not pay more than $2,888 in cost sharing in that year.) http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9925/12-18-HealthOptions.pdf
http://www.vawatchdog.org/09/hcva09/hcva110609-1.htm
Bill Would Restrict Veterans’ Health Care Options 11/06/09
Buyer and McKeon Offer Amendments to Protect Veterans and TRICARE Beneficiaries
Congress plans to block Tricare fee increases
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w/
By Rick Maze - Staff writer, Oct 7, 2009
Tricare fee increases imposed last week by the Defense Department will be repealed by a provision of the compromise 2010 defense authorization bill unveiled Wednesday by House and Senate negotiators.
Snip The fee increases were announced on Sept. 30 and took effect on Oct. 1, but the defense bill, HR 2647, includes a provision barring any fee increases until the start of fiscal 2011.
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Retired Army Maj. Gen. Bill Matz, president of the National Association for Uniformed Services, said the announcement of fee increases was shocking considering that the Obama administration promised earlier this year to hold off on any new fee Tricare fee increases until fiscal 2011.
“President Obama and DoD assured NAUS and the entire military family earlier this year that there would rightly be no increases in any Tricare fees” in fiscal 2010, Matz said. “We took them at their word, and I can’t believe that a co-pay increase like this was allowed to go forward,” he added.
How about eliminating JUNK food from the Food Stamp program?
The FAT POLICE won’t be happy until every one is riding an exercise bike and eating a celery stick for 8 hrs a day!
Obama is going to hook up all those exercise bikes to
generators and claim it’s all part of his Green Energy
program.
Like Ed Bagley?????????????
????? Ed who?
Holywierd actor, who recycles to the extreme. Rides a bike to produce electricity to make his toast...HGTV had him on for a while. He actually lives what he preaches for the most part...except all that electricity used to film his show! LOL
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