- Wisconsin Gubernatorial Candidate Scott Walker Signs Taxpayer Protection Pledge
- Why Do We Get Health Insurance from Our Employers Anyway? (ASA Site »)
- The Enormous Price Tag of Government Run Healthcare (ASA Site »)
- Call for Sunshine Week: "Just Give Us The Earmark Data" (CFA Site »)
- PA-12 Special Election Update: Tim Burns Signs the Taxpayer Protection Pledge
- How Government Accounting Works
- ATRF Analysis: The Importance of International Tax Competition
- How Tax Preparation "Simplification" Will Lead to Tax Hikes
- GAO: Implementation of Coburn-Obama Still Lacking in Some Areas (CFA Site »)
Monday, March 15, 2010
- 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 Filing
- 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
-
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
- 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
- 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
Taxpayer Group Denounces EPA Ruling to Regulate the Air We Breathe
From Brian M Johnson on Monday, December 7, 2009 5:17 PM
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized its “endangerment finding” stating that Carbon Dioxide is a pollutant that is harmful to public health. This finding will allow the EPA to expand their power to regulate vehicle emissions, power plants, and factories.
Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform, denounced this finding today and issued the following statement:
This ruling is a scary precursor to the way Obama plans to use his regulators if Congress doesn’t play nice. He is bypassing the authority of and undermining elected officials in Congress. If Reid and Pelosi can’t pass a national climate tax because of widespread opposition, Obama will use the EPA. If Specter can’t convince fellow Democrats to take away workers’ secret ballot voting rights when deciding on unionization, Obama will use the NLRB [National Labor Relations Board]. This decision shows that the Executive branch has complete disregard for the will of the people and the foundations of our Republic. The American people know this and have told their Representatives that they don’t want more regulations on their life. The Obama Administration is grabbing power at a staggering rate. If the EPA can regulate the air we breathe, what can’t they regulate?”
Click here to read the PDF version of the press release.
Comments
didn't the supreme court rule (during the bush administration) that EPA already had the authority to regulate greenhouse gases? didn't congress overwhelmingly pass the clean air act? if the EPA isn't supposed to "regulate the air we breathe" how could they possibly ever impact clean air? (wouldn't we all still be breathing lead from leaded gas still?)
>> jeff Monday, December 7, 2009 6:19 PM
Jeff, you're not suppose to think about it. This is a conservative site. You're suppose to take what they say and believe it. Americans know they don't deserve clean air, and evil big government should regulate the air we breathe via some crap called the Clean Air Act. Air is a common good and we should be able to pump as much sulfer and uranium into the atmosphere as we want because it would cost more to a few businesses if they had to not pollute a common good for free. Also, whose the government to tell me how much toxic waste I can dump into the oceans or how much fly ash I can bury a town under? They should stick to their lot in life... giving rich people more money.
>> David Monday, December 7, 2009 7:20 PM
It's funny that you both mentioned things like lead, sulfur, and uranium (not really sure how you get a heavy metal like that into the air, but I'll take your word for it) but neither of you said anything about CO2 being a pollutant. Because the EPA just ruled that the stuff you exhale and that plants inhale is just as bad as lead, sulfur, and uranium. It's also funny that you think everyone is too stupid to protect their own environment unless they are in the government. Why are politicians the only ones wise and benevolent enough to save us? Last I checked politicians are usually pretty far up on the corruption list, but you act like they are angles sent from God to save us from ourselves.
>> TCH Tuesday, December 8, 2009 9:33 AM