NCPA: Daily Policy Digest 12-03-2009

National Center for Policy Analysis Daily Policy Digest Thursday, December 3, 2009 There are more than 500,000 subscribers that receive the Daily Policy Digest. Help us hit 1 million by Forwarding to a Friend. Yes, I want to support Daily Policy Digest and contribute today! Health Issues STUDY ABOUT UNINSURED MAKES RIDICULOUS CLAIM Being uninsured is like being unemployed -- it happens to lots of people for brief periods, says John C. Goodman, President, CEO and the Kellye Wright fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis... HARVARD UNIVERSITY/ORLANDO SENTINEL Global Warming SUPPRESSING SCIENCE: IS CLIMATEGATE WORLD'S BIGGEST HOAX? Year after year, the evidence keeps mounting that most climate research now being funded is for the purpose of supporting IPCC politics, not to find out how nature works, says U.S. climatologist and global warming skeptic Roy Spencer... CALGARY HERALD Global Warming REVEALED: THE ABJECT CORRUPTION OF CLIMATE SCIENCE Scientific skullduggery, data manipulation and destruction, and corruption of the peer-review process are all contained in the "Climategate" scandal, according to Lord Monckton... SCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE State and Local Issues STATES ACT TO CURB "DOUBLE DIPPING" Some government employees are being barred from "double dipping" -- the practice of collecting a pension and a paycheck at the same time... USA TODAY Health Issues SENATE HEALTH REFORM PLAN PRESCRIBES HEAVY TAX DOSE The Senate health care bill would impose massive tax increases on Day One and keep increasing your taxes well into the future, says author Michael F. Cannon... CATO INSTITUTE Taxes DENMARK KEEPS WORLD TAX TITLE Danish taxpayers pay the highest taxes in the world, relinquishing a whopping 48.3 percent of their income to the state, according to report... COPENHAGEN POST 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