Stories Causing Atlas to Shrug

Persons living in states that have not expanded Medicaid will be better off lying to EXPAND income to over 100% of federal poverty level to get subsidized Obamacare.

And on the flip side, if income is too high... 

Buried in the Federal Register is an announcement that the government won’t be able to verify whether or not applicants for Obamacare’s insurance exchange subsidies are actually qualified for the aid - it's on the honor system.

Meanwhile, in Utopia...  

Washington state passed the final piece of a six-year effort to rewrite state laws using gender-neutral vocabulary, replacing terms such as "fisherman" and "freshman" with "fisher" and "first-year student."

• Bill was 475 pages. 
• Manhole, seaman, airman and airlock survived.   
• 40,000 statutes had to be scrubbed of words like man, him or he.  
• 40 man, er, I mean person staff undertook the effort.  
• Question: shouldn't bachelor’s degree” now become a “single-person’s” degree?  

States are raising gas taxes because too many people drive electric cars. California has the country's highest gas tax at 72 cents a gallon.

• More than a dozen states are considering charging all drivers by their mileage to take more of your money. 
• Question: should we also start taxing non-smokers for the loss of tobacco tax revenue?