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Three Things YOU Can Do to Pass Truth in Spending (AZ Action Alert)

Mar 27, 2012 Comments Off by

Dear Arizona Taxpayer,

Truth in Spending is moving toward the House floor!

Senate Bill 1275, the Truth in Spending reform bill, has advanced in the House Appropriations Committee and now needs to get to the House floor for a final vote before going to the …

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Big Whiff: Details of Obama’s 2013 Budget

Feb 15, 2012 Comments Off by

Yesterday, President Obama released his fiscal year 2013 budget proposal. Unfortunately, this budget request doubles-down on the same failed policies which have made the economy worse under President Obama. This budget includes the most government spending in history, the biggest tax increase in American history, …

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Republicans make great strides in slowing spending (Rome wasn’t built in a day)

Feb 02, 2012 Comments Off by

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its Budget and Economic Outlook, the annual report that gives taxpayers a sense of the government burden to come. While this normally presents pretty dismal news, one major breakthrough in this year’s report is important:

Thanks to the efforts …

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Why Do Democrats Oppose a Pay Freeze for Federal Bureaucrats & Members of Congress?

Feb 01, 2012 Comments Off

House Republicans will vote this week on H.R. 3835, legislation by Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI)that extends the pay freeze for federal bureaucrats, Members of Congress, and Congressional staff through 2013.

Democrats have voiced opposition to freezing salaries again, and President Obama actually wants …

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State of the Union facts vs. Obama’s fictions

Jan 25, 2012 Comments Off

SOTU FACT: President Obama’s Policies Have Made Our Economy Worse

CLAIM: President Obama says our economy has “momentum.”

“As long as I’m President, I will work with anyone in this chamber to build on this momentum.” (President Obama, State of the Union Address, January 24, 2012)

FACT: President …

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From $250 a year to $1,600 a month!

Jan 23, 2012 Comments Off

In an earlier post, we highlighted a great article by British MEP Daniel Hannan, Memo to the Occupy protesters: here are ten things we evil capitalists really think. In it, Hannan makes the following point:

7. Let’s tackle the idea that being on the Left means …

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Ten things evil capitalists really think

Jan 23, 2012 Comments Off

Since we’re on the subject of capitalism . . .

Britain has a great MEP (Member of the European Parliament) named Daniel Hannan. Back in November, he wrote an op-ed that I meant to note, but didn’t get a chance. It’s Memo to the Occupy …

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Expanding Medicaid Will Decrease Access to Care

Jan 19, 2012 Comments Off

By Alieta Eck, MD

“The purpose of profit is to encourage competition,” said NJ gubernatorial candidate Bret Schundler. Too bad he didn’t win in 2001, as his free market approach to our economy would have dramatically enhanced prosperity in NJ. Instead, as private enterprise has declined, …

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Political Incorrectness, 2013

Jan 18, 2012 Comments Off

Apparently the Obama family holiday in the islands will run us taxpayers $4,113,038, and that’s not counting Sno-cones, leis, surf board rentals and assorted Hawaiian souvenirs.  Still, it’s hard to begrudge the man his vacation.  After all, for months now, it’s been one damn fund-raiser …

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