INDEX
- Latest Developments In The Fight To Stop A Govt Internet Takeover
- State of Illinois Launches Sunshine Portal (CFA Site »)
- China Buys Our Debt, We Give Them Renewable Energy Stimulus Jobs...Seems About Right
- ATR Urges Governor McDonnell to Sign Bill to Abolish State Run Tax Preparation
- Saving the Sea Turtles...But at What Cost? (PRA Site »)
- Craig Miller Signs Taxpayer Protection Pledge in FL-24
- Next Week is Sunshine Week! (CFA Site »)
- The Economics of #StimulusFail
- Missouri Unions and Andy Stern on the Same Page: Raise Taxes (AWF Site »)
- Obamacare, Free Trade, & Our Economic Prosperity
Friday, March 12, 2010
- 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
- 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 »)
-
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 »)
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
Friday, February 26, 2010
Good Evening Arizona Pledge Breakers
From Patrick Gleason on Tuesday, February 2, 2010 5:38 PM
The bill, SCR 1001, now heads to the House where it will face staunch opposition.
In this afternoon’s vote, four senators broke their Taxpayer Protection Pledge, a promise they made to their constituents to oppose “any and all efforts to raise taxes.” The senators who broke their commitment to constituents are as follows:
Bob Burns (R-Peoria)Linda Gray (R-Phoenix)Barbara Leff (R-Paradise Valley)Jay Tibshraeny (R-Chandler)
“Its always unfortunate when lawmakers prove that they made a central campaign promise for reasons of political expediency, only later to demonstrate, much like Obama’s pledge not to raise taxes on those making less than $250,000 a year, that the commitment was hollow,” said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform.
Americans for Tax Reform applauds those senators who stayed true to their promise to constituents today by opposing the referral. Those senators include:
Ron Gould (R-Lake Havasu)Chuck Gray (R-Mesa)Jack Harper (R-Surprise)John Huppenthal (R-Chandler)Russell Pearce (R-Mesa)Thayer Verschoor (R-Gilbert)
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Comments
When you have a vote in Arizona, then you are relevant. Until then keep your single minded, autocratic fluff out of our state problems. Stinking Eastern elitists.... Thanks
>> Sarka Scarpulla Wednesday, February 3, 2010 11:05 PM
If I see a good idea then I will take it. Should Arizona refuse to eat steaks because the cows came from Illinois? The only reason anybody complains about Norquist not being an Arizona resident is because they really want to say they support higher taxes and the most popular way to slip that over on people is by appealing to the not grown in my back yard crowd.
>> Thane Eichenauer Wednesday, February 3, 2010 11:52 PM
Speaking of Illinois - did you notice the common thread for all GOP candidates who won in yesterday's primary? They all signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge! Go figure. The stereotype of AZ as a clearly Red or conservative state is just no longer the case.
>> Straight outa Chicago Thursday, February 4, 2010 12:17 AM
It's easy to take an ideological stand without regard to consequence. Without rational debate on a broad range of solutions, how do you craft good public policy? Arizona has been devastated by this recession like no other State; primarily because of poor political decisions made during upswing times. Our tax structure is badly in need of restructuring; services are based on ever increasing consumptive growth that cannot be sustained.
>> Sarka Scarpulla Thursday, February 4, 2010 1:01 PM
We just threw 40,000 kids off of their health insurance. We are proposing not funding mental health care for 17,000 significantly impaired adults. We are rolling back education funding to that of a third world country. We have laid off 1/5 of the State workforce with furloughs impacting many of the remaining. We have stopped maintaining our highways and schools; in many cases we stopped financing the copiers to duplicate 10 year old text books.
>> Sarka Scarpulla Thursday, February 4, 2010 1:05 PM
What does that mean in the real world, outside of misery, stress and uncertainty? That local government will end up paying the bills. By shirking their basic responsibilities, our State legislators have merely passed the buck to increasingly strained local and county governments. An unfunded mandate as it were. Those are the impacts of standing back, making ideological demands of those who wish to have your elitist posturing imprint. Come to our real world. Speak to the all the citizens of our State, not your mindless sectarian androids
>> Sarka Scarpulla Thursday, February 4, 2010 1:08 PM
Listed were Senate President Bob Burns, Senate President Pro Tem Barbara Leff, Linda Gray and Jay Tibshraeny, all Republicans. Conspicuously missing were two other GOP names: senators Sylvia Allen and Majority Whip Steve Pierce, who signed on to ATR's Taxpayer Protection Pledge. Hmmmm...what's up with that? Although their names were on the ATR Web site last summer, they're not there now. Thanks to Mary Jo Pitzl, Lead Reporter Legislature AZ Republic newspaper.
>> DonZ Thursday, February 4, 2010 6:24 PM
Endorsing McCain and Perry is like endorsing a Democrat. Palin has backstabbed the people who put her where she is. She is a traitor just like McCain and Perry, who are both for amnesty and open borders.
>> Myke Sunday, February 14, 2010 6:08 PM