Dec. 13, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging the Georgia legislature to consider proposals to eliminate tax credits for Hollywood in the upcoming session:

“Ending corporate cronyism is something that the left and right can generally agree upon, and corporate tax credits designed to help out of state or country industries are particularly noxious.  The entertainment industry in Hollywood has been particularly aggressive in seeking tax credit incentives from states like Georgia in order to enjoy the lower cost of film making that the Peach state provides.  As part of a broader campaign by Americans for Limited Government to spotlight corporate cronyism, we will be focusing upon the ever-expanding corporate welfare which Hollywood enjoys from the taxpayers of Georgia. It is time for the state legislature to end Hollywood welfare.”

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Dec. 12, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to the overwhelming results of the British elections, where the Tories have won a crushing landslide:

“British polling showed that Boris Johnson’s conservative party was barely clinging to hopes for a majority as late as two days ago. Instead the voters gave the Tories an overwhelming mandate to leave the European Union on Britain’s terms. As Democrats in America continue their blind partisan impeachment of President Donald Trump, the British results should scare the heck out of them as the original Brexit vote foreshadowed Trump’s victory. The Tory landslide may be a similar bellwether of 2020 results in the United States. Clearly, pollsters still don’t get the concerns of voters here in America or across the pond.”

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Dec. 12, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement blasting the passage of the H.R. 3 drug pricing bill:

“Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s drug pricing legislation is so onerous that if it became law it would virtually guarantee that next generation cures for Alzheimer’s, various cancers and other senior-related illnesses would be strangled in their research cradles. Somehow Pelosi believes that by making it cost more money to develop a cure than you can make selling that cure is a good thing. Let me be clear, it is not moral to strip the hope away from people suffering from Alzheimer’s or other prevalent diseases under the guise of cutting drug costs. It is cruel.

“This is not just hyperbole, but a simple fact. Research dollars will not flow toward unprofitable enterprises. Congress itself recognizes this through their orphan drug tax treatments designed to make it profitable to develop medicines for rare diseases, yet Pelosi’s H.R. 3 would make the drugs designed to address illnesses that are most prevalent be subjected to rate caps ensuring that they would be unprofitable. H.R. 3 is almost akin to a vendetta bill against an industry that the Democrats appear to pathologically hate, and should be rejected.”

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Dec. 9, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement rejecting a deal between House and Senate negotiators on a bill to address surprise medical billing with government rate setting:

“A compromise bill from U.S. Representatives Greg Walden and Frank Pallone, and Sen. Lamar Alexander on surprise medical bills, if it still relies on government-rate setting will be a disaster for patients. It favors insurance companies, who will have a perverse incentive to remove rural community hospitals from their networks in order to compel artificially low reimbursement rates, leading to more hospital closures and limiting access. Bills offered by U.S. Rep. Phil Roe and Senators Bill Cassidy and Michael Bennet instead establish an independent board to settle billing disputes between doctors and insurance companies. While insurance companies may have the power in D.C., they are health care payment vehicles, not health care itself, and billing disputes should be independently decided to ensure continued quality health care access for all Americans.”

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Dec. 6, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement on the latest jobs report:

The unemployment rate is at a 50 year low at 3.5 percent. In the past year, 1.6 million people entered the workforce and an incredible 1.8 million people got jobs – this is an unprecedented run of job growth exceeding people entering the workforce at what many economists consider to be beyond full employment.  Even more significant, people who wanted work but had given up on applying was down 26 percent and people not looking because they believe no jobs are available for them was down 28 percent from a year earlier. Finally, and most importantly, fewer people are unemployed since the year 2000, when there were 19 million fewer Americans in the workforce.  The Trump economic miracle continues to astound as more and more Americans are achieving the American dream, and it is clear that the factless impeachment is a desperate partisan attempt to distract the nation from the greatest economy in any of our lifetimes.”

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Dec. 5, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to get to work on addressing surprise medical billings by considering legislation establishing third-party independent mechanisms for billing dispute resolution:

“Nancy Pelosi’s announcement that the House of Representatives is continuing its farcical impeachment push should be extremely disappointing to everyone who was hoping that Congress would focus on important issues like surprise medical billing, which catches families off guard with unanticipated medical costs after getting treatment out-of-network. There is a relatively easy, bipartisan legislative fix to this issue that hammers the pocketbooks of too many Americans, and those bills offered by U.S. Rep. Phil Roe and Senators Bill Cassidy and Michael Bennet, that creates an independent decisionmaker to settle billing disputes between doctors and insurance companies, taking powerless patients out of the bill collectors’ crosshairs. The question Nancy Pelosi should ask herself is how many Americans are going to be bankrupted by surprise medical bills because she is engaged in personal partisan impeachment vendetta.”

Attachments:

“Surprise medical billing should be addressed by independent neutral third party boards, not price fixing,” By Robert Romano, Nov. 26, 2019 at http://dailytorch.com/2019/11/surprise-medical-billing-should-be-addressed-by-independent-neutral-third-party-boards-not-price-fixing/

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