Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. Proudly Serving the 6th District of Minnesota

Michele's Corner

2,000 Pages of Mandates, Taxes, and Bureaucracy This morning, House Democrats held a press conference to unveil their health care reform bill, which they claim will expand coverage for all and decrease costs. Sounds good, but once you peel away the “feel good” rhetoric, there’s nothing to be excited about. This 2,000-page bill includes a job-killing employer mandate, an individual mandate that requires Washington bureaucrats to define what kind of coverage is acceptable, burdensome tax increases, Medicare cuts, and a huge expansion of Medicaid that will break already strained state budgets.

Fiscal Recklessness: The Name of the Game in Washington Do you remember the famous chart that Christina Romer, then the chief architect of President Obama’s plan and now Chairman of Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors, produced to help sell the President’s “stimulus” plan to the public? Her analysis found that unemployment would drop to 7% by the end of 2010 if we passed the “stimulus” bill. Her analysis also showed that even without the “stimulus,” unemployment would peak at 9%. That hasn’t been the case.