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Don’t Run That Red Light …

by Michael Fiala March 24, 2010 State Issues
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If you commit a traffic transgression, get ready to help pay for more bad government.
Iowa Senate bill SF 2378, or the “Justice System Budget”, includes $9.7 million worth of fine and court cost increases.
In fact, most fines will go up anywhere from 40 to a whopping 300 percent! And each fine will be charged [...]

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Kill Iowa HSB 702

by fbadams February 23, 2010 State Issues
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The media report HSB 702 is moving forward in this Iowa legislative session.
Like other ill-conceived legislation coming from this body where current economic considerations apparently fail to impel lawmakers to drastically cut spending, this bill will add insult to injury to Iowa’s employment climate.
Big Labor has no interest in amending the situation by reasonable means, [...]

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Iowa: Create Jobs? Reduce Taxes? Balance the Budget? ……… Then Repeal Chapter 20 of the Iowa Code

by fbadams February 18, 2010 State Issues

On December 16, 2009, Michael Fiala blogged on this site concerning Iowa’s abysmal ranking as the nation’s 46th worst tax climate for the creation of jobs. This article dovetails with that idea except that it concerns Iowa’s top ranking in the nation as the most liberal for pay and benefits for our state employees.
In a [...]

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Who really stands to benefit from Public Health Care?

by Michael Fiala July 22, 2009 National Issues
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I read in Senator Kennedy and Bob Shrums article the other day that, ” … in Medicare today, 18 percent of patients discharged from a hospital are readmitted within 30 days — at a cost of more than $15 billion in 2005. Most of these readmissions are unnecessary, but we don’t reward hospitals and doctors [...]

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