{"id":34329,"date":"2011-05-19T01:30:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:30:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T01:30:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:30:29","slug":"mark_steyn_s_stack_of_stuff3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/05\/19\/mark_steyn_s_stack_of_stuff3\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Steyn\u2019s Stack of Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><BR\/><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125115.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"249\" class=\"alignright\"\/>Author and cultural commentator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steynonline.com\/\">Mark Steyn<\/a> filled in on <\/strong><\/line><BR\/><strong>Wednesday while Rush began his Christmas vacation.<\/strong><\/line><\/p>\n<p><BR\/>&#8220;They\u2019re going to tax you when you go in to get your artificial tan, in order <\/line><BR\/>to subsidize health care for families making $96,000 per year.&#8221; -Steyn<\/line><\/p>\n<p><BR\/>&amp;bull;<strong> NYT:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/24\/fashion\/24Skin.html\">Senate Shifts Tax to Tanning Beds<\/a><\/line><BR\/><strong>&amp;bull; John F-ing Kerry: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/business\/healthcare\/view.bg?articleid=1220681&#038;position=1\">Health Bill Will Help State<\/a><\/line><\/p>\n<p><BR\/>&#8220;Democrats are going to do something our side doesn\u2019t: Use <\/line><BR\/>their moment. They understand that if they use their 60 votes <\/line><BR\/>to ram through this health care plan, they can take the hit in <\/line><BR\/>2010, and have the architecture for government annexation <\/line><BR\/>of a huge chunk of the individual American\u2019s life. Once you <\/line><BR\/>do that, it makes small government all but impossible.&#8221; -Steyn<\/line><\/p>\n<p><strong>&amp;bull; Reuters:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE5BL41Y20091222\">Senate Sets Christmas Eve Vote on US Debt Limit<\/a><\/p>\n<p><BR\/>&#8220;People say, &#8216;Ooooh, we\u2019re outsourcing all these jobs overseas.\u2019 Good! I tell you, I\u2019d rather hire someone from Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, or Uzbekistan than a New Yorker. There\u2019s no incentive to hire!&#8221; -Steyn<\/line><BR\/><strong>&amp;bull; Heritage: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2009\/12\/22\/why-is-the-ama-supporting-a-20-pay-cut-for-their-members\/\">Why is the AMA Supporting a 20% Pay Cut for Their Members?<\/a><\/line><BR\/><strong>&amp;bull; LAT:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-budget23-2009dec23,0,7164018.story?track=rss\">Schwarzenegger to Seek Federal Help for California Budget<\/a><\/line><\/p>\n<p><BR\/>&#8220;According to the NYTimes, people may be &#8216;incorrectly using stimulus tax breaks.\u2019<\/line><BR\/>Incorrectly! Hey, why not? If John Kerry and Ben Nelson are cashing in, go for it!&#8221; -Steyn<\/line><\/p>\n<p><strong>&amp;bull; NYT: <\/strong><a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=t&#038;ct2=us%2F0_0_s_0_0_t&#038;usg=AFQjCNHgoqdtu3vRaHVgBZo5GgCW_rNNAQ&#038;cid=17593679247609&#038;ei=UGYyS7HqAdyFmQe3zOT0AQ&#038;rt=SEARCH&#038;vm=STANDARD&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2009%2F12%2F23%2Fbusiness%2Feconomy%2F23tax.html\">Thousands May Incorrectly Be Using Stimulus Tax Breaks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Eventually you\u2019ll wind up the way other socialized, bureaucratic systems work: The medical profession ceases to be a middle class profession, and you end up importing doctors from wherever you can get them.&#8221; -Rush<\/p>\n<p><BR\/><strong>&amp;bull; UK Telegraph: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/1465699\/Britain-still-poaching-Third-Worlds-doctors.html\">Britain &#8220;Still Poaching&#8221; Third World\u2019s Doctors<\/a><\/line><BR\/>&#8220;If you talk to the environmental crowd, they don\u2019t care if it\u2019s global warming or global cooling, or whether it\u2019s 54 and partly cloudy. The whole thing is an excuse to expand government. That\u2019s why if it\u2019s hot, you need more government regulation; if it\u2019s cold, you need more government regulation. Between the two of them, health care and the environment, that licenses the government to regulate every single thing you do in your life.&#8221; -Steyn<\/line><BR\/><strong>&amp;bull; <\/strong><strong>Brit Priest:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/WORLD\/europe\/12\/22\/uk.priest.sermon.shoplift\/\">Thou Shalt Not Steal (Unless It\u2019s From Big Business)<\/a><\/line><BR\/><strong>&amp;bull; <\/strong><strong>UKT: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/comment\/columnists\/lizhunt\/6870677\/Father-Tim-Jones-was-helping-himself-but-not-helping-the-poor.html\">Father Tim Jones was Helping Himself, but Not Helping the Poor<\/a><\/line><\/p>\n<p><BR\/>&#8220;Mary and Joseph were not &#8216;homeless.\u2019 They couldn\u2019t get a hotel room and they had to sleep in a stable,<\/line><BR\/>only because dad had to schlep halfway across the country to pay his taxes in the town of his birth.&#8221; -Steyn<\/line><\/p>\n<paragraph\/><paragraph\/>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\"\/>\n<p>*Note: Links to content outside RushLimbaugh.com usually become inactive over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author and cultural commentator Mark Steyn filled in on Wednesday while Rush began his Christmas vacation. &#8220;They\u2019re going to tax you when you go in to get your artificial tan, in order to subsidize health care for families making $96,000 per year.&#8221; 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