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AFFT Calls on Congress to Eliminate IRS Targeting by Enacting the FairTax

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mifairtaxIn Michigan, the Fairtax would solve a number of issues and make us as business friendly as is possible.  This article is related to the National Fairtax effort, however operates on a similar principle.

 

HOUSTON, May 16, 2013 - Americans For Fair Taxation® (AFFT), outraged by the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) continued political abuse and intimidation of citizens and organizations, is calling on Congress to immediately enact HR 25 / S 122, the FairTax® Act of 2013 and phase out the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). “No person or group is safe from IRS targeting; everyone is a bull’s eye,” said AFFT spokesperson Cynthia T. Canevaro.

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Universal Prior Authorization Bills To Reduce Patient Wait Times

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Common Sense Health Care Reform to Cut Red Tape, Bureaucracy, Empowers Doctors to Spend More Time with Patients

LANSING –Michigan State Medical Society President Kenneth Elmassian, D.O., today praised the Governor Rick Snyder for signing bipartisanship legislation to cut red tape and bureaucracy in the delivery of health care.  The legislation, championed by state Senator Tonya Schuitmaker (R-Lawton) and state Representative Gail Haines (R-Waterford), came in response to calls from Michigan physicians to improve patients’ access to the best care by creating a universal prior authorization form for prescription drugs.

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Electric Meter Opt Out

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Though I have never considered the radio transmission of electric meters to be particularly of concern, I have many friends who do.

May 15, 2013 - The Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) today approved an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) non-transmitting meter provision for residential customers of DTE Electric Company, effective today.

The Commission on Sept. 11, 2012 in Case No. U-17000 directed investor-owned utilities “to make available an opt-out option, based on cost-of-service principles, for their customers if or when the provider elects to implement AMI.”  DTE Electric had already made such a filing on July 31, 2012, in which it proposed an initial charge of $87 and a monthly fee of $15 for opting-out.

It means they have to walk up to the meter and read.

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AFP Michigan Cautions Legislators On HB 4714

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I had posted something on this a couple days ago.

HB 4714 is being presented as a ‘protection” against Obamacare, but..

LANSING, Mich.—“Please do not be fooled:” that was the message Americans for Prosperity-Michigan today delivered to House and Senate lawmakers in a letter urging opposition to HB 4714, which would expand Medicaid under President Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). The group identified HB 4714 as a possible bait-and-switch, and noted that conservative reforms proposed in the bill can too easily be stripped away now or at some point in the future, leaving Michigan taxpayers holding the bag. (Click here to read the full letter).

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