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>Christie says U.S. fiscal crisis could hurt national security

>Christie urges go-slow approach on health reform

>How to Handle the Coming Dividend Tax Hike
Hough: Will the favorable tax treatment on dividends go away at the end of 2012, even as Apple and other companies roll out new dividends?

Apple (AAPL: 606.98, 10.93, 1.83%)’s dividend announcement this past week is good news for income investors, but bad news might be lurking around the corner.

Unless Congress takes action, the top tax rate for the highest earners on most dividends, currently 15%, is set to jump to a whopping 43.4% next year. That is a maximum income-tax rate of 39.6% — since dividends will once again be taxed as regular income — plus a 3.8% tax on investment income as part of the health-care overhaul passed in 2009.

https://www.smartmoney.com/invest/strategies/preparing-for-taxes-on-dividends-to-increase-1332723167618/?mg=com-sm

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Hands Off My Healthcare Rally March 27 in Washington

Join with thousands of patriots for the “Hands Off My Healthcare” rally in Washington on Tuesday, March 27
Bus leaves 6:30 am from Wyckoff, 7:00 am from Bogota

Register at: https://handsoffmyhealthcare.eventbrite.com/
or Contact: [email protected]
or call: 201 891-5918

Spread the word to internet challenged friends.

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Obama Relies on Debt Collectors Profiting From Student Loan Woe
By John Hechinger – Mar 26, 2012 12:01 AM ET

The debt collector on the other end of the phone gave Oswaldo Campos an ultimatum:

Pay $219 a month toward his more than $20,000 in defaulted student loans, or Pioneer Credit Recovery, a contractor with the U.S. Education Department, would confiscate his pay. Campos, disabled from liver disease, makes about $20,000 a year.

We’re not playing here,” Campos recalled the collector telling him in December. “You’re dealing with the federal government. You have no other options.”

Campos agreed to have the money deducted each month from his bank account, even though federal student-loan rules would let him pay less and become eligible for a plan — approved by Congress and touted by President Barack Obama — requiring him to lay out about $50 a month. To satisfy Pioneer, Campos borrowed from friends, cut meat from his diet and stopped buying gas to drive his 82-year-old mother to doctor’s visits for her Parkinson’s Disease.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-26/obama-relies-on-debt-collectors-profiting-from-student-loan-woe.html

>Former NAACP leader accuses Sharpton and Jackson of ‘exploiting’ Trayvon Martin
Published: 2:17 PM 03/26/2012

Former NAACP leader C.L. Bryant is accusing Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton of “exploiting” the Trayvon Martin tragedy to “racially divide this country.”

“His family should be outraged at the fact that they’re using this child as the bait to inflame racial passions,” Rev. C.L. Bryant said in a Monday interview with The Daily Caller.

The conservative black pastor who was once the chapter president of the Garland, Texas NAACP called Jackson and Sharpton “race hustlers” and said they are “acting as though they are buzzards circling the carcass of this young boy.”

Read more: https://dailycaller.com/2012/03/26/former-naacp-leader-accuses-sharpton-and-jackson-of-exploiting-trayvon-martin/#ixzz1qGPWw55O

>Side Effects: Doctors Fear Obamacare :43 percent of doctors said they are considering retiring 
Alyene SengerMarch 14, 2012 at 2:46 pm

The American public doesn’t support Obamacare, and a new survey shows that doctors have an even worse opinion. No one has a better grasp on the state of the health care system than physicians, and according to the Doctors Company survey, 60 percent of them believe that Obamacare will have a negative impact on overall patient care. This survey is consistent with the findings of another doctor survey taken in October 2010, which also showed doctors’ lack of confidence in Obamacare.

The survey was conducted to unveil physicians’ concerns about health care reform. The Doctors Company, which is the largest insurer of physician and surgeon medical liability in the nation, received more than 5,000 surveys, including all specialties and every region in the country. The results weren’t good for the President’s signature piece of legislation.

Not only do doctors believe that Obamacare will not improve the health care system, they also anticipate that it will worsen the current condition. According to the survey, nine out of 10 physicians are unwilling to recommend health care as a profession to a family member, and one primary care physician even commented, “I would not recommend becoming an M.D. to anyone.”

Obamacare doesn’t just discourage entrance into the medical profession; it encourages those who are already practicing to leave it. The survey states that “health care reform is motivating doctors to change their retirement timeline.” In fact, 43 percent of respondents said they are considering retiring within the next five years as a result of the law. A surgeon from Michigan wrote that under Obamacare, “We will be moving further away from humanity-based health care and more towards the patient as a commodity. This was not the way my father practiced—nor will I. Winding down to retire early.”

https://blog.heritage.org/2012/03/14/side-effects-doctors-fear-obamacare/

>Obamacare in the Supreme Court 101: Deliberations, Rulings and Impacts
Marguerite Higgins and Rachael Slobodien March 25, 2012

On Monday—two years after President Obama signed Obamacare into law—the Supreme Court will hear arguments challenging the health law’s constitutionality.  Heralded as the case of the century, the oral arguments heard and, ultimately, the Court’s decisions will set the precedent for hundreds of future legal rulings. They also will determine if there are any limits left to what the federal government can require regarding personal and private decisions.

From its inception, Obamacare has faced challenges on legal and moral grounds.
In fact, Heritage analysts were among the first to explain why the individual mandate that all Americans buy government-approved health insurance is unprecedented and unconstitutional.

It’s no wonder that legal challenges from the majority of the states and other organizations began pouring in shortly after the law’s passage. As these lawsuits worked their way through the district and federal appellate courts, conflicting decisions resulted, leading to the Supreme Court taking up the case.

Beginning Monday, the Court will hear six hours of arguments—six times the length allotted for most cases. In recent decades, the Court has generally set a maximum of 60 minutes for oral argument in each case (usually divided 30 minutes per side). In fact since World War II, very few cases have been allowed more than four hours; the biggest exception in the last sixty years was Brown v. Board of Education. The Court’s decision to allow six hours of oral arguments for Obamacare is another indicator of the case’s severity.

The Supreme Court will consider four main questions when the Obamacare cases come before the bench. And the answers to those questions will determine whether all, some, or none of Obamacare will remain in force after the Court’s decision.

https://blog.heritage.org/2012/03/25/obamacare-in-the-supreme-court-101-deliberations-possible-rulings-and-impacts/

>Ridgewood school officials take school budget on the road
MONDAY MARCH 26, 2012, 9:19 AM
BY DARIUS AMOS
STAFF WRITER
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS

Ridgewood Board of Education trustees have spent a greater portion of this month visiting various locations in the village and detailing the 2012-13 school spending plan for residents. Among the hot topics discussed have been the specific driving costs of the $90.6 million operating budget

Last week, district officials went through the budget basics at the Education Center, this time with members of the municipal governing body sharing their dais. Ridgewood Mayor Keith Killion, council members Paul Aronsohn and Stephen Wellinghorst, and Stephen Sanzari, village chief financial officer, all sat in on the presentation.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/144206435_Ridgewood_school_officials_take_school_budget_on_the_road.html

>Loan initiative lures clinicians to practice, stay in Jersey