The problem with the president's health care/mail analogy: The Postal Service founders because it has no bottom line.
When President Obama told the people attending a town hall meeting on health care that “UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? . . . It’s the post office that’s always having problems,” he was right on the facts, but drew the wrong conclusion from them.
As his whirlwind schedule of Sunday talk show appearances indicates, he still doesn’t get it.
Alarmed by a tripling of obesity rates among U.S. children over the past 30 years, the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council issued a report recommending policy initiatives to trim the fat from America’s youth.
Saying the child obesity problem cannot be solved at the federal level, the two groups counsel state and local officials to impose their own soft drink taxes, tax “junk food,” limit access to television and video games in after-school programs, replace public school vending machines with water fountains, open school playgrounds to the general public, build more sidewalks and bicycle paths, and require restaurants to list calorie counts on their menus.
En 20 años el país tendrá muchas más personas jubiladas en proporción a la población. Por tanto, la población sufrirá de altas tasas de enfermedades crónicas como la diabetes y cáncer. Si existiera una opción pública de seguro médico, el costo que implicaría pagar estas cuentas sería una carga intolerable impuesta al grupo cada vez más reducido de contribuyentes estadounidenses económicamente activos.
Los costos del tratamiento de enfermedades crónicas
As the city of Oakland grapples with a budget crisis, a glance over the 2009–11 budget proposal reveals a telling example of irresponsible public spending. Despite recent controversy surrounding lavish travel budgets for politicians, city officials still haven’t learned their lesson.
Significantly, the city is now set to impose a 3 percent hotel tax surcharge beginning in January, which will generate around $2.7 million annually. Voters approved the surcharge
