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Obamacare Debate Defines End of the Year
To understand the fiscal tension in Congress defining the end of 2025 it is helpful to grasp it as a debate between continuing health care subsidies on which average Americans have come to rely to be able to receive medications, treatment, hospitalization and other medical services and continuing and extending tax breaks to the most […]
Continue readingPennsylvania Retention Election – A Matter of Numbers?
For most of us, accustomed to elections as being a contest between candidates from opposing political parties, the notion of a retention election seems odd, almost foreign. So the idea that there are a number of Pennsylvania judges, both in the appellate courts and lower courts up for retention might need some explanation. Although often […]
Continue readingImpact of the Big Beautiful Bill on Health Insurance Costs
Last week Pennie, Pennsylvania’s official health insurance marketplace under Obamacare, sent a notice to enrollees notifying them of changes under the law and the Big Beautiful Bill recently passed by Congress. It begins by stating “IMPORTANT – Unless Congress acts, you will pay more for your health plan in 2026.” <emphasis added>. The significant words […]
Continue readingRarely Discussed Effects of the Big Beautiful Budget Bill
Federal budget bills are not the kind of discussion frequently encountered in day to day review. Still the “One Big Beautiful” Bill just recently passed by Congress by a narrow thin margin and criticized even by many Republican Congress members who eventually voted for it probably inspires more conversation and debate than any since the […]
Continue readingThe Federal Estate Tax and the Big Beautiful Bill
It is tempting to think that the budget conflicts in Washington today are something new and different from an ongoing dialogue going on for at least twenty-five years and more. The most recent major discussion concerns the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, passed in 2017 during the first Trump administration. The TCJA contained a […]
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