- Rusty Bowers Signs the Taxpayer Protection Pledge for AZ-01 Race
- Ask Your Virginia Legislator to Vote "NO" on Any Budget Containing Higher Taxes
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ATR Supports H.R. 4781, the
"Keeping American Businesses
Competitive Act of 2010" - Stimulus Dollars Are Taking You for A Ride - On Greyhound Buses (CFA Site »)
- Ronald Reagan Legacy Project Urges Naming of California High School After Reagan
- Democrats Attempt to Subvert Congress in Hopes of Carbon Regulation
- Economic Issues Dominate at the Bloggers Briefing
- Pushback Against EPA’s Attempts to Regulate Carbon Emissions Grows
- Minnesota Gubernatorial Candidate Running on a Platform of Tax Hikes
Thursday, March 11, 2010
- Michigan Jobs Ain't What They Used To Be...Unless You Work For The Government
- ATR and CFA Support Earmark Moratorium
- CFA Supports Earmark Moratorium (CFA Site »)
- Voter Fraud in the Name of Tax Hikes
- Ballooning Deficits in Greece Foreshadowing Future for the U.S.? (ASA Site »)
- Green Jobs FAIL
- The Evergreen Tax and Fee Spree
- Pelosi: "But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it" (CFA Site »)
- ATR Staffer Testifies Before U.S. House Energy & Commerce Select Committee
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
- The endemic rot in government run health care
- Senate Unanimously Passes Coburn PAYGO Transparency Amendment (CFA Site »)
- The Debt Panel's 800-lb. Gorilla: Why Andy Stern Stands Out
- The Left Agree: Obamacare Ushers In Their Radical Ideological Agenda
- We Ought Focus On Cutting Taxes & Spending, Not Deficits
- The Debt Panel's 800-lb. Gorilla (AWF Site »)
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Does the Obamacare Investment Surtax
Apply to Capital Gains? - ATR Urges Opposition to Sen. Isakson Pension Bailout
- Taxpayers to Legislators: Clean Virginia Budget of Taxes
- ATR Supports the Georgia JOBS Act
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
- ATR Urges Utah Governor Herbert to Veto Tax Increase
- More on the VAT
- Public Sector Jobs
- How 550,000 jobs were destroyed by the minimum wage hike
- How Obamacare Will Hurt Poor Women & Children Most
- Federal Workers Make $11,000 More Than Private Sector Workers, and There’s More of Them (AWF Site »)
- Really?!? If This is Transparency, Beware of Opacity (CFA Site »)
Monday, March 8, 2010
- Legislation Introduced to Put Ronald Reagan on the $50 Bill
- Pledge Signer Wins Illinois Republican Gubernatorial Primary
- "Net Neutrality" To Kill Jobs
- NY Supreme Court Votes to Evict Residents and Close Businesses (PRA Site »)
- California US Senate Candidates Square Off in First Debate
Friday, March 5, 2010
- ATR and CFA Support the Spending Limit Amendment
- Utah Representative Breaks Tax Pledge
- AWF Will Rate Vote on House Jobs Bill (AWF Site »)
- Energy Tax Hike Series: Use it or Lose it Tax
Thursday, March 4, 2010
- The reliability of spending "estimates"
- Utah State Senator Tries to Sweeten Tax Hike with Pork
- Obama Administration Makes Attempt to Seize Millions of Acres Across America (PRA Site »)
- More "Stimulus" Boondoggles - Social Engineering and Lobbying for Higher Taxes
- Energy Tax Hike Series: Raises Taxes on Tertiary Injectants
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
- Is This Reality or a Science Fiction Dystopia?
- Andy Stern Update: US Attorney Reviewing Case & Obama Appoints Stern to Debt Panel
- Texans: Do You Know Which Candidates Have Signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge?
- AWF Asks White House to Take Position on Andy Stern Investigation After Appointment to Debt Panel (AWF Site »)
- AWF Continues Andy Stern Investigation (AWF Site »)
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
- Energy Tax Hike Series: Superfund Tax Reinstated
Monday, March 1, 2010
- Rick Berg First Pledge Signer in North Dakota Congressional Race
- Give a Hoot, Don’t Pollute . . .the Economy with Taxes or Unnecessary Spending
- Raise Taxes or Raise Taxes? Washington’s Solution to $2.8 Billion Budget Deficit
- Andy Stern Appointed to Debt Panel While Under Criminal Review for Lobbying Activities
- Andy Stern Appointed to Debt Panel While Under Criminal Review for Lobbying Activities (AWF Site »)
- Energy Tax Hike Series: IRS Sec. 199 Repeal
Friday, February 26, 2010
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Pwned!
Paul Ryan on Healthcare and Deficits
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Rusty Bowers Signs the Taxpayer Protection Pledge for AZ-01 Race
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Ask Your Virginia Legislator to Vote "NO" on Any Budget Containing Higher Taxes
From Nathan Pick on Thursday, March 11, 2010 5:40 PMA final budget containing tax increases would be a violation of the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, a commitment which 27 Virginia legislators have made to "oppose and vote against any and all efforts to increase taxes." To see a list of legislators who have signed the Pledge, click here. To see the letter from ATR stating that a vote for a budget containing tax increases would be a violation of the Taxpayer Protection Pledge for these members, click here.
Virgininia taxpayers have seen spending skyrocket by nearly 33% from 2002 to 2008. The state government is spending almost $9 billion dollars more of taxpayer dollars. As Governor McDonnell noted in his State of the Commonwealth address, state spending has grown well beyond the rate of population and inflation for quite some time, nearly tripling since he was first elected to public office in 1991. These are symptoms of a spending problem, rather than a government taking too little from the people it represents.
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ATR Supports H.R. 4781, the
"Keeping American Businesses
Competitive Act of 2010"
From Ryan Ellis on Thursday, March 11, 2010 5:21 PM
Americans for Tax Reform today sent the following letter to Congressman Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.):
On behalf of Americans for Tax Reform, I am pleased to support H.R. 4781, the “Keeping American Businesses Competitive Act of 2010.” I urge all Members of Congress to co-sponsor and support this vital legislation.
Your bill reduces the federal corporate income tax top rate from 35 percent to 22 percent. Importantly, it does so for any tax year ending in 2009, meaning that businesses would be able to benefit immediately from the pro-growth benefits of the tax relief.
Read more after the jump
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Ronald Reagan Legacy Project Urges Naming of California High School After Reagan
From Nathan Pick on Thursday, March 11, 2010 5:15 PM
The Ronald Reagan Legacy Project encourages the board of the Grossmont Union High School District to move forward with the naming of a newly built high school after President Ronald Reagan. If adopted, this would be the first high school in California and the fifth in the nation to honor former President Reagan.Read More | Comments (0) | Permalink | Email | Print
Democrats Attempt to Subvert Congress in Hopes of Carbon Regulation
From Christopher Prandoni on Thursday, March 11, 2010 5:09 PM
What a difference a year makes. A year into Obama’s presidency we were suppose to have universal government-run health care, an energy tax (Cap-and-Trade), and a slew of other intrusive programs, mandates, and decrees. The thing is, Americans don’t want their lives turned upside-down at the whim of Washington politicians. But Democrats refuse to listen. They talk themselves into thinking that they know better than thou; that the American people don’t know what they really want. It is this tragic example of groupthink that is the impetus for all of the Democrats' political tactics.
Instead of passing healthcare reform through conventional means, Democrats have dragged the country through a convoluted sausage packing that may manifest itself in a reconciliation vote. Cap-and-Trade passed the House last June by the slimmest of margins, 219-212, only to stall in the Senate – Harry Reid never had the votes. During simpler times Cap-and-Trade would be dead, but no. Unable to pass cap-and-trade through traditional legislative measures, the Obama administration has called upon the EPA to do its dirty work, to unilaterally instate a national energy tax. In a February 22, 2010 letter to Senator Rockefeller, EPA Director Lisa Jackson wrote:
“I expect that EPA will phase-in permit requirements and regulation of greenhouse gases for large stationary sources beginning in calendar year 2011... In any event, EPA does not intend to subject the smallest sources to Clean Air Act permitting for greenhouse-gas emissions any sooner than 2016.” –EPA Director Lisa Jackson
To continue click read more...
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Economic Issues Dominate at the Bloggers Briefing
From Amir Iljazi on Thursday, March 11, 2010 1:14 PMThis week’s Blogger’s Briefing, hosted by The Heritage Foundation, gave an in-depth look at one of the most important issues that is currently in the hands of Congress, but not really in the minds of the American people: Financial Regulatory Reform. Health Care has dominated the headlines, but the issues coming into the fray with Financial Regulatory Reform are becoming increasingly important as the Congress moves ever closer to legislative action. The featured speakers took on this issue by looking at it through the eyes of the overall state of the Economy and recent publications that have showed the degree of decline that the US has seen over the last few years, most notably the Index of Economic Freedom; and then a closer look at what Congress is doing to “repair” the financial sector.
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Pushback Against EPA’s Attempts to Regulate Carbon Emissions Grows
From Brian M Johnson on Thursday, March 11, 2010 11:59 AMAmericans for Tax Reform applauds the letters sent by business leaders and governors supporting Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) resolution of disapproval which would prevent the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from imposing economically-harmful regulations on stationary sources of greenhouse gas emissions.
“If Senators were wondering what Americans thought about the EPA’s backdoor attempts to regulate greenhouse gases, these letters will dispel any illusions that such unprecedented measures are tolerable,” said Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform. “People see this as an attempt to subvert the will of the American people their elected officials, and they are angry about it.”
Click here for the Governor's letter and here for the broad-based industry letter.
Click "read more" to view ATR's full press release or get the PDF document.
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Minnesota Gubernatorial Candidate Running on a Platform of Tax Hikes
From Joshua Culling on Thursday, March 11, 2010 11:50 AMThe Minnesota DFL (the state's Democratic party) has a crowded field for the 2010 gubernatorial race, with about 10 credible candidates vying for the nominate. One of them is Sen. Tom Bakk (DFL-Cook), the Chairman of the Senate Tax Committee and a darling of organized labor. Sen. Bakk has wasted little time in showing his true colors to prospective voters, introducing a bill this session that would extend the sales tax to clothing, a $300 million annual tax increase.
The tax hike is coupled with a flimsy promise to cut the overall sales tax from 6.5% to 6.25% in the future. It's the classic "broaden the tax base now, lower the overall rate later" ploy. First, Minnesotans can reasonably expect the future cut in the overall rate to be delayed or ignored down the road. Second, broadening the tax base is only acceptable if the corresponding rate cut at least offsets the additional revenue increase. That's not the case with Sen. Bakk's proposal.
Unsurprisingly, the Senate Education Committee took a voice vote on the bill this morning. They avoided putting the vote on record because they understand the implications for lawmakers who choose to raise taxes in the middle of a recession.
Gov. Pawlenty is on record in opposition to this and any tax increases this year. He prefers spending restraint and tax cuts for the business community to spur job creation and economic growth.
To see the full text of ATR's opposition to this bill, click Read More. For a PDF copy, click here.
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Michigan Jobs Ain't What They Used To Be...Unless You Work For The Government
From Brett Gall on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 4:52 PM
Currently home to the worst state unemployment rate in the nation at 14.3% and with some counties facing almost 19% unemployment at the start of 2010 (higher than the state record unemployment rate of 16.8% following the 1982 stock market crash), Michigan residents are in dire need of jobs. However, a job sure isn’t what it used to be…unless, of course, you work for the government!
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ATR and CFA Support Earmark Moratorium
From Sandra Fabry on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 4:26 PM
The following is cross-posted at www.fiscalaccountability.org:
Tomorrow, the House GOP Conference will meet to discuss a self-imposed unilateral earmark moratorium for FY2011. We're supporting the effort, because, as we've stated in our letter:
Taxpayers have become increasingly frustrated with the Congressional practice of earmarking. The process lacks transparency and accountability and the results are often frivolous and wasteful.While overall spending levels and a lack of general spending discipline continue to be the main problem, earmarks have become emblematic of what taxpayers perceive as the problem in Washington, DC.
Click here for a PDF version of the letter.
Photo credit: John Morris
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