Tag: taxes
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Biggest problem with health-care reform law is advocates’ poor sales job to the American public, Rep. John Yarmuth tells C-J
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News The biggest problem with the federal health-care reform law is not the law itself, but the fact that “We’ve never done as good a...
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Does Obamacare tax the middle class?
U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell speaks ata Rotary Club meeting in Louisville.(C-J photo by Michael Clevenger) With Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell calling the federal health-care reform law a tax on...
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Penny-per-ounce tax on sugar drinks could save $17 billion, cut consumption and prevent disease and death, academics say
More than $17 billion in medical costs over 10 years could be saved if sugared drinks were taxed at 1 cent per ounce, and it would prevent 95,000 cases of...
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Kentucky Youth Advocates gets $100,000 to push for income-tax policies aimed at helping the poor improve their health
Kentucky Youth Advocates is one of 12 coalitions nationwide to receive a “Roadmaps to Health” grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The non-profit children’s advocacy organization will receive $100,000...