NCPA: Daily Policy Digest 1-11-2010

National Center for Policy Analysis Daily Policy Digest Monday, January 11, 2010 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! Taxes THE NEW YEAR BRINGS TAX CHAOS About 90 percent of the benefits from capital investment goes to workers in the form of higher wages due to increased productivity, according to a study by the National Center for Policy Analysis... WALL STREET JOURNAL Health Issues WHERE U.S. HEALTH CARE RANKS NUMBER ONE What we need now is insurance and liability reform -- not health care reform, says Dr. Mark B. Constantian, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon in New Hampshire... U.N. WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION/WALL STREET JOURNAL Health Issues HEALTH CARE REFORM AND THE STATES There are four reasons why many states aren't keen on the pending health care bill; all involve how it will make the states' financial conditions worse... U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE/TIME MAGAZINE Environment Issues NEW OZONE STANDARD MORE ABOUT POLITICS THAN SCIENCE A stricter ozone standard will render America less competitive in attracting and keeping jobs, especially in manufacturing, say observers... MACKINAC CENTER Regulatory Issues MEDIA CONTENT REGULATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY The Federal Communications Commission may be poised to enforce the most intensive government oversight of broadcast programming in decades, say observers... HEARTLAND INSTITUTE Social Issues CANADA'S GENEROSITY GAP Compared to Americans, Canadians are far less generous, say researchers... FRASER INSTITUTE 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 2003-2010 National Center for Policy Analysis - All rights reserved