NCPA: Daily Policy Digest 11-03-2009

National Center for Policy Analysis Daily Policy Digest Tuesday, November 3, 2009 Yes, I want to support Daily Policy Digest and contribute today! Health Issues HEALTH COSTS WILL SOAR UNDER OBAMACARE House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's health care bill will raise the cost of Americans' health insurance premiums, says House Republican Leader John Boehner (Ohio)... LOS ANGELES TIMES State and Local Issues FREEZE WAGES NOW Gov. David Paterson should declare a fiscal emergency and seek to impose a three-year freeze on all state and local employee salaries in New York, says E.J. McMahon, director of the Manhattan Institute's Empire Center for New York State Policy... NEW YORK POST Global Warming SAVE THE PLANET? KILL CAP-AND-TRADE A vote for the House version of cap-and-trade or the companion legislation sponsored in the Senate by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), and Sen. John Kerry ( D-Mass.), actually means a vote for even more greenhouse gases, according to report... PRINCETON UNIVERSITY/WASHINGTON EXAMINER International Issues THE WAL-MART EFFECT Wal-Mart's debut in a country is a bellwether for future growth, say observers... FOREIGN POLICY State and Local Issues VANPOOLS IN THE PUGET SOUND REGION There is a strong case for expanding vanpool programs to move the most people for the least cost, according to report... WASHINGTON POLICY CENTER Taxes TEN PRINCIPLES FOR TAX REFORM: PRINCIPLE ONE Total taxation should be capped as a proportion of gross domestic product, says Robert Carling, a Senior Fellow with the Center for Independent Study... POLICY About the DPD NCPA's Daily Policy Digest brings you the most wide-ranging public policy findings five times a week at no charge. DPD knows your time is valuable, so we find and summarize the most topical public policy issues from today's newspapers, magazines, websites, government reports, scholarly journals and think tanks. Visit the DPD Archives Visit the NCPA website The John Goodman Health Blog A new Consumer-Directed Health Care Blog. Forward this to a Friend Subscribe to the Daily Policy Digest. Unsubscribe: If you received this email in error, you can unsubscribe here. Connect with the NCPA on: Please do not reply to this email address as it is not monitored. For a list of NCPA departments and corresponding email addresses, please visit www.ncpa.org/contact. We depend on the financial support of individuals. We need your help to continue our work. Join the NCPA today! Dallas Headquarters 12770 Coit Rd., Suite 800 Dallas, TX 75251-1339 Phone: (972) 386-6272 Fax: (972) 386-0924 Copyright 2003-2009 National Center for Policy Analysis - All rights reserved