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6:35 Thomas Aiello is the Senior Director of Government Affairs for National Taxpayers Union. www.NTU.org In this role, Thomas works to promote pro-taxpayer policies in the halls of Congress and within the Trump Administration. We talk about Thom’s push to end a big Obamacare subsidy – here’s a letter he submitted to Congress:
Dear Members of Congress,
On behalf of National Taxpayers Union, the nation’s oldest taxpayer advocacy organization, I write to express our strong opposition to extending the enhanced Obamacare Premium Tax Credit (PTC) before it expires at the end of 2025. This expanded credit, created as a temporary measure during President Biden’s COVID spending spree, continues to burden taxpayers and distort health care markets.
We urge you to hold the line by allowing the expanded PTC to expire as scheduled.
As you know, Biden’s COVID-era laws temporarily expanded Obamacare’s premium tax credits by increasing the size of the credits and expanding eligibility. This included raising the income cap to allow taxpayer benefits to go to people making nearly $500,000. At the time, Democrats used the ongoing public health emergency to justify this major Obamacare expansion, but, four years later, there is no longer a rationale for keeping these credits in place. Taxpayers should not be on the hook for the extended benefits to upper-income households who were never intended to be subsidized under Obamacare.
Research by the Paragon Health Institute indicates the credit is rife with waste, fraud, and abuse.
“These COVID credits caused a surge of enrollment in the exchanges and higher insurer profits, although many new enrollees were ineligible, unaware they were signed up, or never used their plan,” according to the Paragon report.
The Internal Revenue Service’s Inspector General writes that the PTC suffers from an improper payment rate of 26% (FY23 data), representing the highest improper payment rate among government-funded health care programs.
If the generous COVID credits are extended permanently, CBO estimates it would add an average of $40 billion to the deficit per year. It is clearly an incredibly expensive subsidy that should be on the chopping block during this period of record high debts. Today, our deficits hover near $2 trillion annually, and interest payments on our national debt are rapidly becoming one of the largest budget items. Allowing the PTC expansion to expire is a small but meaningful way to demonstrate seriousness about restoring fiscal discipline.
Americans are rightly concerned about the increasingly unaffordable cost of health care, but the solution to this problem is less government involvement, not more. When the government artificially subsidizes premiums, insurers and healthcare providers are rewarded for raising costs rather than competing to deliver lower costs. Market-based reforms—not endless subsidies—are the best path toward affordable care.
By allowing the expanded PTC to lapse, Congress can help bring discipline back into the healthcare market instead of pouring more borrowed money into a failing system. We respectfully urge you to hold the line against a continuation of supersized COVID/Obamacare subsidies.
Sincerely,
Thomas Aiello
Senior Director of Government Affairs
National Taxpayers Union
7:35 Dr. Carole Lieberman, M.D., M.P.H. known world-wide as America’s Psychiatrist and the Terrorist Therapist, is the host of Dr. Carole’s Couch on VoiceAmerica.com, and The Terrorist Therapist® Podcast. She is a forensic psychiatrist/expert witness, bestselling-award-winning author of 4 books – 2 on terrorism and 2 on relationships.
We talk about the assassination of Charlie Kirk is the new 9/11: a shocking
life-changing event that is giving birth to a new breed of domestic
terrorists, who are playing whack-a-mole with Republican leaders.
Carole Lieberman, M.D., a psychiatrist known as The Terrorist Therapist®, explains the significance of his assassination taking place the day before 9/11. Dr. Lieberman lists reasons why we are more vulnerable to Radical Islamist terrorists today than on September 11, 2001, and adds the divisiveness, that caused Charlie Kirk to be assassinated, as a new reason.
Dr. Lieberman offers her psychoanalysis of the shooter: Tyler Robinson, and explores why he murdered Charlie Kirk – whom she knew from his being a guest on her podcast. Dr. Lieberman breaks down his motives, what his gender identity has to do with it, the messages on the bullets, the significance of his flunking out of college on scholarship and more.
Dr. Lieberman also explains how his ‘roommate’/lover, Lance Twiggs, plays into this scenario.
HER BOOK: Lions and Tigers and Terrorists, Oh My!
FIND HER WEBSITE HERE AND HERE AND HERE:
8:10 Dr. Dennis Powers, retired professor of Business Law at SOU and historian, with today’s “Where Past Meets Present”
Kevin Towers: Medford’s Baseball G.M.
By Dennis Powers
Kevin Towers grew up in the Rogue Valley after his family moved to Medford from Northern California when he was a child. He excelled at three sports at Medford High School, standing out as a baseball pitcher with a fastball in the low 90-mph range. He and his teammates took the Black Tornado to the state quarterfinals and semifinals in their junior and senior seasons respectively. Graduating in 1979, he with three other teammate friends headed to Mira Costa College in Oceanside, California, to play baseball.
While there, he was considered one of the team leaders and a “tough, gritty, always-on-fire guy.” After one season of junior college ball, Towers went on to play for Brigham Young. Kevin was drafted in the first round in 1982 by the Padres as a pitcher. Although he didn’t move past AAA baseball and then injured his arm, he moved into scouting after seven years in the minor leagues.
Kevin became a pitching coach in the minor leagues (1989-1990), a scout for the Padres (1989-1991) and Pittsburgh Pirates (1991-1993), and then rejoined the Padres as scouting director in 1993. He became the general manager of the San Diego Padres in 1995, which lasted for 14 seasons–a long tenure with a career that included four National League West titles with a World Series appearance for his team in 1998. The new owner of the Padres let him go in 2009 as part of an overall front-office “house cleaning”.
After leaving the Padres, Towers went on to being a special assignment scout for the New York Yankees for the 2010 season. Then, the front office of the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2011 where he worked until 2014 as a general manager. In his first season in 2011, Arizona went from last to first in the NL West and improved by 29 wins.
Towers was known for his ability to find pitchers and other players who had been released by another team and then did well. On the heels of two 81-81 campaigns, the D’backs were more than 20 games below .500 when he was let go by Arizona during the 2014 season. Towers then joined the Cincinnati Reds as a special assistant and remained in that role for three seasons.
He died in early 2018 from thyroid cancer at age 56. Major leaguers considered him to being “one of the most well-liked individuals in the game whose love of life and baseball will be missed.” Along with an athletic savvy–not just in baseball–but an ability to learn, retain, and apply what he had experienced. One of his former players, Padres closer Trevor Hoffman, was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2018 and joined others in emphasizing the great impact he had on their careers. And Kevin Towers didn’t forget his Medford roots.
Sources: Dennis Powers, “Kevin Towers,“ Bicoastal Media, March 24, 2018; “Medford’s Towers didn’t forget his roots,” Mail Tribune, January 30, 2017; “Medford grad, major league GM Towers dies,” Mail Tribune, January 28, 2018.
8:50 Amanda Linnehan from Rogue Community Cat Rescue www.RogueCats.org and we’re talking about this weekend’s 3-day “Feline Fix Fest” and why it’s important. Here are the fliers and other info of their second fundraiser event, too!
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