National Press Releases
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12/11/02 John Rowland Abandons Connecticut Taxpayers

12/09/02 Taxpayer Advocacy Group Voices Strong Support for New Treasury Secretary Nominee

12/05/02 Class Warfare and the Nanny State: John Kerry Wakes the Ghosts of the 1970's

12/05/02 Virginia Special Election: Hugo Signs Pledge

11/22/02 Follow the Money!

11/21/02 Terrell: Steadfast in Support Of Taxpayers

11/12/02 Is Homeland Security In Question?

11/12/02 Taxpayers, Break Out Your Hardhats: Nancy Pelosi Set to Become House Minority Leader

11/12/02 BLOOMBERG: ANOTHER TAX INCREASE!

11/07/02 Taxpayer Agenda is Moving After Election: Rep. Chris Cox Proposes a New Death for Death Tax

11/07/02 La agenda de los contribuyentes se está moviendo después de la elección: El Republicano Chris Cox propone una nueva muerte para el impuesto a la Herencia

11/06/02 Taxpayers Win!!! Pro-Taxpayer Candidates, Ballot Initiatives Sweep November Elections at Local, State and Federal Levels

11/06/02 Senate Vote 2002: Taxpayers Win! Pledge Signers Win!

11/06/02 House Vote 2002: Taxpayers Win! Pledge Signers Win!

11/06/02 Rumsfeld, Army Move to Privatize Over 210,000 Employees

11/04/02 New Hampshire Voters Must Decide Senate Race On Tax Issues

11/04/02 In a "Difference of Visions" on Taxes, Walter Mondale Supports Repealing Tax Relief Plan

11/04/02 "Taxpayer Hero" Saxby Chambliss Declares "No New Taxes" in Race for Georgia's Senate Seat

10/24/02 Mala suerte para Tom Strickland, los impuestos van a definir la carrera por el Senado en Colorado

10/24/02 Oklahoma Gov. Race Boils Down to Tax Issue

10/22/02 Tough Luck for Tom Strickland, as Taxes Become the Defining Issue in Colorado Senate Race

10/18/02 It's Official: Erskine Bowles Will Not Oppose New Taxes

10/17/02 Will Beacon Hill Ever Listen on Taxes?

10/17/02 ¿Por qué Erskine Bowles no se comprometerá con los contribuyentes de Carolina del Norte?

10/15/02 There's No Such Thing as a Free Lunch - Or Free Health Care, Either

10/14/02 In California, No More Money for Gov. Davis to Spend

10/11/02 State Legislators Visit Washington DC, Meet President Bush

10/11/02 In Sununu v. Shaheen Senate Race, It's Live for Tax Freedom…Or Lose

10/08/02 Legislation Through Litigation is Not the Answer

10/07/02 Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) Hits a Home Run: Sponsors Constructive Bill to Boost Economy and Relieve Beleaguered Investors

10/03/02 Proposed Amendment Distracts From Real Education Problems, Seeks to Raid Florida Budget

10/02/02 Taxpayer Group: Torch Was Bad, But Lautenberg is Worse

10/01/02 Trial Lawyers vs. American Business Again: The Case Against Sealed Air

10/01/02 Paul Wellstone: The Ted Kennedy of the Midwest

9/30/02 Candidate Pearce Commits to Taxpayer Protection

9/26/02 A Stark Choice for New Hampshire: Slow Death by Taxes Hikes, or Tax Sanity

9/24/02 Tax Issue Dominates U.S. Senate Election in Texas

9/24/02 Colorado Senate Race Sees Battle for Key Taxpayer Vote

9/24/02 Chemical "Security" Bill Spells Homeland Insecurity

9/23/02 Gray Davis v. California Business: Round Two

9/20/02 Welfare Reauthorization of Bust

9/19/02 Death Tax? House Decries Senate's Inattention to Nation's Economic Needs

9/19/02 Just When We Think We're Out…The AMT Pulls Us Back In

9/18/02 Triunfo del Candidato Pro-Contribuyente en las Primarias del Segundo Distrito de Arizona.

9/18/02 OECD to USA: Simplify Your Taxes Already

9/17/02 Taxpayers Beware: Dodging the Constitution to Impose New Taxes

9/16/02 A New Model for Bureaucracy…Why not?

9/16/02 Tax Relief for Children and Their Education

9/12/02 Greenspan to Congress: Pork is Bad for Economic Health

9/12/02 ATR Announces Winners of "Hero of the Taxpayer" Award for 2002

9/11/02 Truth or Doublethink: Torch's True Take on Taxes

9/10/02 HEATHER WILSON: Heroe de los Contribuyentes

9/10/02 ATR Welcomes New Operations Manager, Promotes Another to Development Manager

9/06/02 Taxpayers to Congress: Calm the Spending, Por Favor

9/06/02 Supermajority Requirement Saves Calif. Taxpayers, as Worst Tax Hikes Defeated By Legislature in New Budget

9/06/02 Investor Confidence: The necessary first step to economic recovery

9/04/02 Defeat the Dastardly Double Dividend Tax

8/28/02 Doubting Thomas Step Aside: Recession and Spending Caused Deficit, Not Tax Relief

8/21/02 Taxpayers Win in Georgia Primaries

8/14/02 Colorado Candidates Pledging No New Taxes Win Primaries

8/13/02 The Little Engine that Couldn't: Amtrak Fails Again

8/12/02 Candidate Endorses Tax Limitation Amendment

8/09/02 Get on the Bus! Conservatives to Rally for Barr

8/08/02 The Black Hole: California Budget Sucks in More and More New Taxes

8/07/02 Candidates in Missouri Pledging "No New Taxes" Win Primaries

8/07/02 Candidates in Michigan Pledging "No New Taxes" Win Primaries

8/07/02 Candidates in Kansas Pledging "No New Taxes" Win Primaries

8/06/02 Don't Spill the Beans: Coffee Tax in the Works

8/06/02 Congressional Candidates Pledge "No New Taxes," Win Primaries

8/06/02 Thune vs. Johnshon: The Race for U.S. Senate

8/06/02 Taxpayers Win as President Signs Free Trade Bill into Law

8/02/02 Fat Taxes v. American Consumers, Taxpayers

8/01/02 Taxpayers Win!!! Trade Bill Passes U.S. Senate

7/31/02 ATR Praises President Bush for New Push to Grow the Economy

7/29/02 No Time for Tom Daschle to Stall on Trade Bill

7/23/02 They Wish They All Could Be California Cars

7/22/02 Tax Simplification Bill Moving Through House

7/18/02 Deficits vs. Piss-Christ: Congress Bets on Both

7/15/02 Don't Like "Tax Shelters?" Then Make Them Unnecessary!

7/15/02 ATR Announces New Deputy Director of Communications

7/12/02 Cap-Gains Taxes: Not Only Bad Public Policy -- Bad Source of Federal Revenue Too

7/11/02 Legislator O'Neill Reviles "No New Taxes" Pledge

7/02/02 Income Tax Proposals Harm Tennessee's Economic Recovery

7/01/02 Today is "Cost of Government Day": The Other Independence Day for Taxpayers

6/28/02 Taxpayers Praise Veto-Proof Caucus

6/26/02 Congressional Candidates Pledge No New Taxes, Win Primaries

6/20/02 Will New Jersey Pledge Signers Agree To Raise Taxes?

6/17/02 ATR Re-Launches No Death Tax Website: www.nodeathtax.org

6/13/02 Sen. Wellstone Votes to Reinstate Death Tax

6/13/02 Sen. Carnahan Votes to Reinstate Death Tax

6/13/02 Sen. Johnson Votes to Reinstate Death Tax

6/13/02 Torch Votes to Keep Death Tax Aflame

6/12/02 Taxpayer Group Begins Opposition to Indiana Governor's Tax Hike Plan

6/11/02 On Permanent Death Tax Repeal, Sen. Mary Landrieu a Big Question Mark

5/22/02 Joe Lieberman To Taxpayers: Drop Dead

5/21/02 Zero Capital Gains Tax Caucus Reaches 50 Congressional Members

5/17/02 Sen. Pete Domenici Signs "No New Taxes" Pledge

5/09/02 Rumsfeld Ends Crusader Program, Saves Taxpayers From Unnecessary Federal Spending

5/08/02 Taxpayer Group to EU - Mind Your Own Business and Don't Tax Ours

5/07/02 Appropriators Hike Ticket Tax, Hurt Taxpayers

5/03/02 Telephone Tax, Designed to Fund 19th Century War, Now Proposed to Fund Pork

4/30/02 Chambliss Vows 'No New Taxes' in Georgia, While Cleland Opposes Permanent Tax Relief

4/26/02 Daschle (again) Delays Bill; This Time, on Pension Reform

4/25/02 Free Tade Continues to Languish in U.S. Senate

4/24/02 Daschle Snubs Charitable Efforts

4/23/02 Permanent Death for Death Tax on Docket

4/23/02 Sen. Tom Daschle Still Obstructing Justice

4/19/02 U.S. Senate: Graveyard for Good Policy

4/18/02 Taxpayers Win!!! Permanent Tax Relief Legislation Passes U.S. House

4/16/02 Temporary Tax Relief Relieves Little

4/15/02 Taxpayer Message on Tax Day: Make Tax Relief Permanent

4/11/02 America Needs More Energy, Not a Power Grab

4/08/02 Feds Dish Out Mixed Messages To Obese

4/04/02 Bush to Daschle: Free Trade by 4/22

4/02/02 ATR Statement on TX-26 Congressional Race

3/21/02 Sen. Daschle Blocks Free Trade Bill; Taxpayers and Consumers in Uproar

3/21/02 NBC Halts Free Speech on Advertising

3/18/02 House Speaker to Present "Taxpayers' Bill of Rights"

3/15/02 Rep. John Sweeney signs "No New Taxes" Pledge

3/14/02 Taxpayers Win With Tort Reform

3/12/02 New CAFÉ Standards Dangerous at Any Speed

3/12/02 New Hampshire Legislature Passes Resolution Urginig Missile Defense Shield

3/07/02 Zero Capital Gains Tax Caucus Adds Nine New Congressional Members

3/07/02 Scott Armey Pledges "No New Taxes" in TX-26

3/07/02 Zero Capital Gains Tax Caucus Adds Eight New Congressional Members

2/26/02 Senate Must Pass the Right Energy Policy Now

2/22/02 Unions Project Mandatory Member Fee for Political Interests

2/22/02 Taxpayer Group names Sen. Max Cleland "Enemy of the Taxpayer"

2/21/02 New Trademark Chief Cuts Waste at USPTO

2/20/02 South Dakota Legislature Resolves: Move Forward on Economic Stimulus, Mr. Daschle

2/13/02 Taxpayer Group Issues 2001 Ratings for Congress

2/13/02 Four Big Problems with Campaign Finance Reform

2/11/02 Shays-Meehan Slights First Amendment

2/08/02 Shays-Meehan: Ending 225 Years of Stability in American Politics

2/07/02 Shays-Meehan to Union Workers: Pay Up.

2/05/02 Daschle to America: Pork Tastier than Jobs

2/04/02 President's Budget Funds Priorities in New Era

1/29/02 On Day of State of the Union, South Dakota Legislature Sides With President Bush over Tom Daschle

1/28/02 New Studies Show Skyrocketing Costs of Taxation, Regulation in America

1/26/02 Scott Armey, Candidate for Congress Signs Pledge, Demonstrates Fiscal Common Sense

1/26/02 Elizabeth Dole Vows to Defend Taxpayer Senate Candidate Signs Pledge, Won't Raise Taxes.

1/22/02 Someone Energize Senator John Kerry

1/21/02 Tax group asks Daschle to sign anti-hypocrisy pledge

1/16/02 South Dakota Legislature Passes Resolution Supporting President's Tax Relief Plan

1/16/02 Ted Kennedy to American Taxpayers: Drop Dead

1/15/02 Recession slows the economy but not America's belief in the President's economic policies

1/11/02 President's Recess Appointments a Good Move

1/11/02 Thank you for cutting tariffs, Mr. Bush

1/04/02 Don't Mince Words, Mr. Daschle