Sunday, November 29th, 2009
The Denver Post published my letter to the editor on October 31. (Yes, I just saw it now.)
Re: “The cost of failure on health care for Colorado,” Oct. 28 online-only guest commentary.
Say your neighborhood deli rigged its scales so that customers who paid for a pound of meat left the ...
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Friday, August 14th, 2009
Senator Michael Bennet says that "health care reform must shift control from insurance companies to doctors, nurses and their patients." If so, he should oppose the Democrats' so-called health care "reform." Insurance companies have too much control because politicians have handed it to them through tax laws that give preferential ...
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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
The Denver Post published my letter to the editor in their March 31 edition:
Joel Stein’s commentary against tax-deductible charitable donations is penny-wise but pound-foolish. By favoring some types of spending and punishing others, the tax deduction indeed violates our freedom to spend our earnings as we please. He suggests that ...
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Saturday, March 14th, 2009
The Denver Business Journal published the following letter of mine in its March 6 edition:
Colorado House Bill 1256 would bring affordable insurance to thousands of Coloradans by allowing them to buy less expensive policies available in other states (Health Care, Feb. 19). Consider the average annual premium costs for non-group ...
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Thursday, January 8th, 2009
The Denver Post published my letter on Thursday:
New insurance law wastes taxpayer dollars
Re: “The governor’s first two years; Two views of his energy level,” Jan. 4 Denver & The West story.
The Post reports that Gov. Bill Ritter “signed a law that … could result in as many as 50,000 more ...
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
The Rocky Mountain News published my letter to the editor last week:
Amendment 59 backers should send refunds to schools
Let the "begathon" begin! That's what educators would need to raise school funding because Amendment 59 failed, said Colorado Association of School Boards director Jane Urschel ("Despite defeat, Ritter aims for budget ...
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
The Denver Post posted my letter on-line a couple weeks ago:
Amendment 59 Raises Taxes
Re: “SAFE gets Colorado back on track,” Sept. 25 Gail Schoettler column.
Amendment 59 is based on deception, and former Colorado State Treasurer Gail Schoettler perpetuates this deceit.
Amendment 59 would raise your taxes. Schoettler denies this, saying that ...
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Friday, October 17th, 2008
The Rocky Mountain News printed my letter to the editor earlier this week about Colorado Amendment 59. Click here for the on-line version with reader comments. A scan of the print version is here.
A DIFFERING VIEW: Count on taxes rising if Amendment 59 passes
The Rocky should regret endorsing the deceptive ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
The Denver Post printed the following letter of mine last week (on-line version):
Re: "Who has your health at heart?" May 22 guest commentary.
AFL-CIO executives John Sweeney and Mike Cerbo perpetuate the big lie behind politician-controlled medicine: that the free market is not working and that costs have been spiraling out ...
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Sunday, May 25th, 2008
The Rocky Mountain News published my letter to the editor on Tuesday, May 6 (print scan).
Darla Stuart (Speakout April 22) writes that since "Colorado’s citizens and businesses deserve to know the real cost of the health-care insurance," politicians should force insurance companies to provide "transparency." But we really ...
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