Sen. Sam Brownback: Perverse Obamacare incentives jeopardize recovery
There is some hope in the latest report on unemployment that our battered economy may be showing some tentative signs of recovery as the rate of job loss continues to slow. But with consumer confidence still low, unemployment hovering at 10 percent, and over 7 million jobs lost since the beginnin...
Protect Health-Care Access for Disabled Americans
Last summer, the American people voiced their dissatisfaction with health care plans under consideration, but it is now clear that congressional leaders are not listening to their concerns. The Baucus plan, reported out of the Senate Finance Committee two weeks ago, is the latest “reform” effort tha...
The Tax Man Cometh - Taxing Health Insurance Plans
Obama's Health Care Plan Leaves Americans in Multi-Trillion Dollar Debt
The Obama administration and Democratic members of Congress have been claiming that the huge price tag of their health care reform proposal will require no new taxes on the middle class, and that it can be paid for in full with a new surtax on the top 1 percent of earners.
Job Losses in the Current Recession
Sen. Sam Brownback has a message to Treasury: Pay down the debt!
If taxpayers knew that the U.S. Treasury was sitting on $80 billion dollars that could be used to pay down the gigantic federal debt, they would not be pleased.
Brownback Opening Statement at Employment Situation Hearing
Recent Economic Developments
Don’t Punish Seniors for Health-Care Reform
In addition to being fiscally unsustainable, the health-care-reform plan emerging from Democrats in Congress raises disturbing questions for our nation’s seniors. If President Obama pushes through proposed “reforms,” seniors could very well face rationed care as the result of a raid on the coffers o...
Another $9.2 Trillion Liability