INDEX
- Leaked Memo Shows SEIU Controls Senate Labor Nom Vote Schedule (AWF Site »)
- Obama Proposes Over $220 Billion in New Energy Taxes
- Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy Releases Local Transparency Study for VA (CFA Site »)
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
- New Transparency Resource for Connecticut Taxpayers (CFA Site »)
- Colorado Senate Debates "Dirty Dozen" Tax Package
- About Those Jobs Numbers (CFA Site »)
- More Job Creation By The Federal Government
Monday, February 8, 2010
- Van Taylor, candidate for Texas State House, Signs Taxpayer Protection Pledge
- February 6, 2010: Ronald Reagan Day
Saturday, February 6, 2010
- The Obama Budget
- Obama Feels International Pressure to Pass FTAs
- Let's Expedite Debate on Spending Reductions! (CFA Site »)
- Bipartisan Reform Commissions - a Comparison (CFA Site »)
- Obama Should Cooperate with Boehner and Cantor to Force Debate on Spending Reductions
- Not All Bipartisan Reform Commissions Are Created Equal
- Populist Politicians Use Poultry to Pontificate and Pander (ASA Site »)
- The Hidden Tax Hikes in the Obama Budget
Friday, February 5, 2010
- PACT Act May Reduce Tax Hike Pressures
- Arizona Congressional Candidate Eric Wnuck Signs the Taxpayer Protection Pledge
- David Schweikert Signs the Taxpayer Protection Pledge for Congressional Race
- ATR and CFA Will Rate House Vote Against Debt Ceiling Hike and PAYGO
- Why Everyone Should be Worried About Craig Becker (and why Scott Brown needs to stop him)
Thursday, February 4, 2010
- New UAW Union-Foxwoods Contract Will Cost Connecticut Casinos Millions (AWF Site »)
- Guess Where Politicians From Socialised Medicine Countries Go For Healthcare...
- De-Facto Card Check Vote Coming Soon
- De-Facto Card Check Vote Coming Soon (AWF Site »)
- Grover Norquist Urges Senators to CoSponsor Non-Government Spending Jobs Bill
- Jim Ward Signs the Taxpayer Protection Pledge in Arizona Congressional Race
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
- Good Evening Arizona Pledge Breakers
- The Obama Budget and Small Business
- Administration Pushes Ahead With Internet Takeover
- SEIU Response to Lobbying Investigation Tongue-Tied (AWF Site »)
- Brewer Sales Tax Hike Passed out of Senate Committee
- A Senate Vote for Craig Becker, NLRB Nom, is a Vote For Card Check (AWF Site »)
- Sound Tax Competition Policy From Switzerland
- U.S. Attorney Reviews AWF's Call for Probe of SEIU Activities with White House, Congress (AWF Site »)
- Colorado House Disregards U.S. and State Constitutions; Passes eTaxes (Stop eTaxes Site »)
- The President's Budget: No Fiscal Restraint in Sight
- Vulnerable Colorado Democrats Vote for Higher Taxes
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
- Colorado House Signs Off On Tax Package
- Do You Know Where Your Tax Dollars Go?
- US Attorney Reviews Call for Probe into SEIU President Andy Stern’s Lobbying Activities
- Property Rights is a Global Affair (PRA Site »)
- What does the "budget freeze" actually mean?
- Utah Legislators Paving the Way for Higher Taxes
- The Budget & International Tax Competition
- Initial Thoughts on the New Obama Budget
- Another Look At Employment Data
- Obama Labor Board Nominee, "workers should not be able to choose against having a union"
- State Level Taxpayer Protection Pledge Signers in Illinois
- Presidential Math: Failed Policies + More Failed Policies = More Jobs
Monday, February 1, 2010
- The Effects of the Mere Possibility of a Bank Tax on Your 401(k) (ASA Site »)
- Very well, so there is a 'job boom'
- Survey Says: Legal Downloading Not So Bad (PRA Site »)
- Post "Stimulus" Unemployment: A Historical Perspective
- Virginia Senator Janet D. Howell Doesn't Get It
- Trains, Pains, and a Whole Lot of Subsidies
- Do You Know Which Candidates in Illinois Have Signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge?
- State of the Union Myth/Fact: Obama's Taxes on Energy & Families
- Real Stimulus Georgians Can Believe In
- Stimulus II: A Sequel America Cannot Afford (ASA Site »)
- SOTU: The President's Misguided Take on Spending
Friday, January 29, 2010
- Colorado House Finance Committee Passes Cadre of Tax Hikes
-
State of the Union Myth/Fact:
Government-Run Healthcare - Colorado Legislature Kicks Off 2010 with an eTax (Stop eTaxes Site »)
- Beth Coulson Signs the Taxpayer Protection Pledge in 2010 Illinois House Race
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State of the Union Myth/Fact:
Obama's New Taxes on Your 401(k) - Colorado Legislature Kicks Off 2010 with an eTax
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GOP SC Gubernatorial Hopefuls Debate in Charleston Tonight,
ATR asks all to Sign Pledge
Thursday, January 28, 2010
- ATRF Analysis: Prevent Repatriation Of Earnings In Certain Cross-border Reorganizations
- Possible Heightened Regulation on Banks Similar to Attempted Regulation of Microsoft in Late 90s (ASA Site »)
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
- Your Chance to Tell DC’s Unionized Metro They #FAIL…In Person! (AWF Site »)
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
$43.7 Billion of “Stimulus” Spent; 1.5 Million Jobs Lost; Taxpayer Cost: $2,900 per Job Lost
From John Kartch on Monday, June 8, 2009 1:04 PM
With President Barack Obama today announcing plans to speed up “stimulus” spending this summer in an effort to “save or create” 600,000 jobs, Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) pointed out the following:
-- At least 1.5 million jobs have been lost since the signing of the “stimulus”. From the time of Obama’s Feb. 17 signing of the “stimulus” bill, the U.S. has lost at least 1.5 million jobs, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
-- Each lost job has cost taxpayers $2,900. According to Recovery.gov, $43.73 billion of the “stimulus” funds have been spent as of May 29. Dividing $43.73 billion by the 1.5 million jobs lost since the signing of the “stimulus” means that taxpayers have ponied up $2,900 per lost job.
-- There is no honest way to measure the number of “saved” jobs: The Obama-invented metric of a “saved or created” job was best debunked by Senator John Ensign (R-NV) on March 4 while challenging Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s use of the term:
SEN. JOHN ENSIGN: "You created a situation where you cannot be wrong. If the economy loses 2 million jobs over the next few years, you can say yes, but it would've lost 5.5 million jobs. If we create a million jobs, you can say, well, it would have lost 2.5 million jobs," Ensign said. "You've given yourself complete leverage where you cannot be wrong, because you can take any scenario and make yourself look correct."
-- “Stimulus” spending has proven highly questionable thus far. Taxpayers are on the hook for $550,000 to build a skateboard park and renovate basketball and tennis courtsin Pawtucket, Rhode Island; $4,000,000 for the paving of a private jet parking lot in struggling Aspen, Colorado; and $11,400,000 for the National Zoo in Washington, DC.
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Comments
So let me get this straight... the stimulus is "working"; jobs have been "saved or created"; and now we're going to "ramp up" the spending??? This is a recipie for disaster and unfortunately the American people are too complacent, and too worried about their own problems in their lives to really look over this Administration's shoulder. 3 years and counting folks... 3 LONG YEARS.
>> Mel LA Tuesday, June 9, 2009 9:11 AM
No one -- not the Labor Department, not the Treasury, not the Bureau of Labor Statistics -- actually measures "jobs saved." The administration is spinning job loss into a claim that it has "saved or created" 150,000 jobs over a time period when the U.S. economy suffered an overall job loss 10 times that number. Where is the White House press corps skepticism towards Obama’s jobs claims? Apparently it was all put towards Bush’s tax cuts.
>> Sydney San Francisco Tuesday, June 9, 2009 11:01 AM
You bunch of haters! If it weren't for Obama, we'd all be doomed! He's done so much to protect our rights to kill babies and repeal the Defense of Marriage Act! And let alone his use of the constitution as toilet paper! He just wants what russia and cambodia had! EQUALITY!
>> Bardy Wednesday, June 10, 2009 2:45 AM
The government already takes .50 on every dollar I earn. Between the state and federal government I see no end in site. I am middle class on a good year of earning. All I ask is that I have an opportunity to keep what I make. I don't want government bail outs. Not for me or any failing company. I was taught that gavernment is to haave a limited role in the lives of the public. Government is hear to serve. Lets bring up term limits again and this time enforce them.
>> Jason Ellingson Sunday, June 14, 2009 10:55 AM