- 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
- Senate Unanimously Passes Coburn PAYGO Transparency Amendment (CFA Site »)
- 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 »)
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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 »)
- Really?!? If This is Transparency, Beware of Opacity (CFA 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
- Give a Hoot, Don’t Pollute . . .the Economy with Taxes or Unnecessary Spending
- Raise Taxes or Raise Taxes? Washington’s Solution to $2.8 Billion Budget Deficit
- Andy Stern Appointed to Debt Panel While Under Criminal Review for Lobbying Activities
- Andy Stern Appointed to Debt Panel While Under Criminal Review for Lobbying Activities (AWF Site »)
- Energy Tax Hike Series: IRS Sec. 199 Repeal
Friday, February 26, 2010
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Pwned!
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
Colorado House Finance Committee Passes Cadre of Tax Hikes
From Patrick Gleason on Thursday, January 28, 2010 6:15 PM
The Colorado House Finance Committee worked late into the evening last night as they took up a package of bills that, through the elimination of credits and exemptions, would raise taxes on everything from software, to candy, to online purchases, to soft drinks, and in what is sure to cause an explosion of resentment in Colorado's ranching community, even bull semen.Yes, bull semen
As lawmakers in Denver face a budget that is $150 million in the hole for the current budget and projected to be over a billion dollars in the red for the next fiscal year, which begins in July, Finance Committee members approved the tax increase largely along party lines.
The only Taxpayer Protection Pledge signer to vote in committee yesterday, Rep. Kent Lambert (R-District 14), opposed all of the tax increases voted on yesterday. For breaking updates on these bills and other legislative issues in Colorado, follow Rep. Lambert on Twitter: For a list of all Pledge signers in the Colorado legislature, click here.
ATR will continue to urge lawmakers to oppose these measures as they head to the House floor.
For a breakdown of how each Finance Committee member voted, click here. For a list of the tax hikes that passed out of committee last night, along with a description, and fiscal impact, click here.
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Comments
Would someone please explain to me how tax hikes can be characterized as a "cadre"? A cadre is a small group of people within an organization. How can there, therefore, be a "cadre" of tax hikes????
>> Sam Larson Thursday, January 28, 2010 11:49 PM
Sam Larson, Cadre, despite the official definition which you referenced and did not link to, is commonly used to refer to a small group of anything, not just people. I could have referred to this horrible legislative package as a "gang" of tax increases despite the fact that the official definition of gang, according to Merriam-Webster is "a group of persons working together." Even though these bills are not "persons," as you accurately point out, the usage in this context is widely understood and accepted. Substantive retorts are welcome if you have any. Patrick Gleason ATR
>> Patrick Gleason Friday, January 29, 2010 12:42 AM
My authority on words always is the Oxford English Dictionary. I have listed in the Comment that follows this one the Compact OED's definition of cadre along with another dictionary's definition. They both refer to a cadre as made up of PEOPLE. Re your point about your misuse of this word being "widely understood and accepted": I might say "just between you and I" or "me and her went to the movies", and these mistakes would be "widely understood and accepted" -- especially among the benighted hoi polloi. I would also be horribly incorrect and would be doing an incredible injustice to the English language, just as you have with your misuse of the word cadre.
>> Sam Larson Friday, January 29, 2010 2:31 AM
FROM THE COMPACT OED: cadre /kaadr/ • noun 1 a small group of people trained for a particular purpose or profession. 2 /also kaydr/ a group of activists in a revolutionary organization. — ORIGIN French, from Latin quadrus ‘square’. FROM THE MACMILLAN DICTIONARY: Macmillan English Dictionary definition of cadre noun [countable] British English pronunciation: cadre /ˈkɑːdə(r)/ Word Forms singular cadre plural cadres 1. a small group of people within a larger organization such as a political party or an army Synonyms or related words for this meaning of Synonyms or related words for this meaning of cadre: more
>> Sam Larson Friday, January 29, 2010 2:45 AM
sam, don't you know who you are dealing with here? the folks at ATR aren't interested in the truth or accuracy of any kind. you are wasting your time arguing with them. ATR has the homer simpson attitude: "Facts schmacts! You can use facts to prove ANYTHING that's even REMOTELY true!"
>> please Monday, February 1, 2010 10:45 PM