- Dear Congress: ARE YOU CRAZY?????
- A Taxing Taste Of Things To Come
- Florida Set for Automatic Job Loss
- Congressman Latta Requests Hearing on Impacts of Cap and Trade
- Brian Rooney Signs Taxpayer Protection Pledge in Congressional Race
- Friday Afternoon Giggle (CFA Site »)
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Senate Health Bill Raises Taxes
On Special Needs Kids and Their Families - "Stimulus" Reporting Lacks Logic...No Kidding (CFA Site »)
- Why Isn't the SEIU Telling Their Members About Their Failing Pensions? (AWF Site »)
- House Financial Services Committee Passes Ron Paul's Audit the Fed Amendment (CFA Site »)
Friday, November 20, 2009
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How Does the Reid-Obama Health Bill
Raise Taxes on Your Current Health Plan? - ATR and CFA Endorse House GOP "Doc Fix" Alternative
- CFA and ATR Support GOP "Doc Fix" Alternative (CFA Site »)
- Former Union Organizers Say Tactics Induce Psychological Trauma (AWF Site »)
- ATR Breakdown of Senate Health Bill
- Conrad Reynolds Signs the Taxpayer Protection Pledge in AR Senate Race
Thursday, November 19, 2009
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Senate Health Bill Breaks
Obama's $250,000 Tax Promise -
BREAKING: Full List of Tax Hikes
In Senate Democrat Health Bill - Senate Healthcare Bill Uses the Term “Tax” 183 Times
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Yet Another Obama Appointee
Is a Tax Hypocrite - New House Dem Savers Tax Would Be Equivalent to Doubling Cap Gains Tax (ASA Site »)
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Tax Pledge Alert:
Vote for Cloture on Motion to Proceed
Is Violation of Tax Pledge - CFA to House: Oppose the "Doc Fix" Boondoggle
- SEIU's Takes Aim At... Boy Scouts? (AWF Site »)
- Will Sen. Reid Let Us Read the Bill?
- Will We Get to Read the Bill? Reid to Unveil Health Bill - Timing of Procedural Vote Unclear (CFA Site »)
- ATRF Analysis: Reform Busines Entity Classifiction Rules
- Unions & Health Bureaucrats Gang Up To Deny Treatment
- The FCC's War On Freedom
- Sen. Cornyn Stands Up for Union Transparency (AWF Site »)
- 2009 State Tax Trends: Overview of Tax Changes and Spending Habits
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ATR Will Rate a Vote Against
Moving to Proceed to Reid Health Bill - Is another Tax Hike Brewing in Tallahassee this year?
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
- Executive Director Discusses SEIU Investigation on Sirius XM Show, The Wilkow Majority (AWF Site »)
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Pelosicare's Problem:
It Doesn't Fix Anything! - DC Launches "Education" Campaign on New Bag Tax
- Ed Morrissey Interview on ATR & AWF Call for SEIU Investigation Today at 3:30pm EST
- High Taxes Lead to Decreased Revenue in Chicago
- First Hand Experience With The Public Option
- ATR and CFA Join Sen. Thune in Calling for End of TARP Bailout
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Advice to Departing Dems:
What to do After You Lose Your Seat - "Stimulus" Fuzzy Math of the Day: No Hope for Michigan in "Stimulus" Plan
- SEIU’s California Fraud Provides Glimpse into World with EFCA (AWF Site »)
- The Damage to Small Businesses
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
- ATR Endorses "Health Savings Account Expansion Act of 2009"
- Minnesota Budget Shouldn’t be Based on Money Politicians Hope to Have
- CFA to House: Vote "Yes" on TARP Accountability Bill
- ATRF Analysis of Administration Proposals to “Reform the U.S. International Tax System”
- The Money Hole
- 75,343 Bogus jobs 'created or saved' by the so-called "Stimulus"
- ATR and CFA to House: Pass the TARP Accountability and Disclosure Act
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Report On Obamacare
- ATR and AWF Call for the Investigation of SEIU President Andy Stern
Monday, November 16, 2009
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ATR Supports H.R. 3905,
"The Estate Tax Relief Act of 2009" - ATR and CFA Support the "Protect Taxpayers from ACORN Act"
Friday, November 13, 2009
- Stimulus: A Picture is Worth a Thousand... Jobs? (ASA Site »)
- Global Flat Tax Revolution (ASA Site »)
- Global Flat Tax Revolution
- Stimulus: A Picture is Worth a Thousand... Jobs?
- A Red-Ink Train Wreck: The Real Fiscal Cost of Government-Run Healthcare (ASA Site »)
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A Red-Ink Train Wreck:
The Real Fiscal Cost of Government-Run Healthcare
Thursday, November 12, 2009
- No Time for Obama to Stall on Trade Agenda
- Does “Net Neutrality” Violate The First Amendment?
- “[C]arbon credits won't matter” Says Senator Vitter (R-La.)
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
- Global Warming Has Brought on A New Ice Age!
-
Outline of House GOP Alternative
To Pelosi-Rangel-Obama Health Bill - Union Cost Increases in Dem. Healthcare Bill Raises Hospital Costs by $27 Billion (AWF Site »)
- ATR Testimony for Senate Hearing on Climate Change Legislation: Considerations for Future Jobs
- Tom Cox, AR Senate Candidate, Signs the Taxpayer Protection Pledge
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
- Job Losses Continue Despite False Claims and Broken Promises from White House
- Union Cost Increases in Dem. Healthcare Bill Raises Hospital Costs by $27 Billion
- Berlin Wall Falls: 20th Anniversary
- Tennessee candidate Lou Ann Zelenik Signs the Taxpayer Protection Pledge
- Why We Need To Regulate Big Google
- Senate Budget Staff: House Dems' Fully Implemented Health Bill to Cost $3 Trillion
Monday, November 9, 2009
- Obama Lied, His Tax Pledge Died
Friday, November 6, 2009
Mission Accomplished? Then Can We Get the Rest Back?
From Sandra Fabry on Friday, October 23, 2009 10:36 AMYesterday, I posted the following on www.fiscalaccountability.org regarding Obama administration Chief Economist Christina Romer's statement that the "stimulus" had essentially already done its job and will level off next year:
Mission accomplished. Well, that may not be exactly how she phrased it, but in a nutshell, that's what she's saying about the "stimulus," You know, the passage of which was going to prevent the unemployment rate from going up above 8 percent but hasn't.
Christina Romer, the chair of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, told a Congressional panel today that
spending from the $787 billion economic stimulus has already had its biggest impact on economic growth and will likely not contribute to significant expansion next year.
But, that doesn't matter. Here's why. You may not have realized it with unemployment peaking at 9.8%, but, according to Romer, the package has really been working, and has so far "saved or created" 600,000 to 1.5 million jobs.
Which brings us back to our favorite pet peeve - the fuzzy math of the "saved/created" boondoggle. Sure you can get to these numbers if you do what apparently state agencies are being instructed to do in their reports to the recovery board.
Disregard the distinction between „created‟ and „retained.‟ Simply count all employees paid for with Recovery Act funds.
Since we'll never know what would have happened absent the "stimulus," there is no way to verify or falsify this claim.
But what we do know is that, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics, since the passage of the "stimulus" over 2.6 million people have lost their jobs, and non-farm employment is down in 43 of the 50 states.
Never mind. Mission accomplished, the Administration says. How so? Because they say so.
Russ Roberts raised an important point in his post on Cafe Hayek that I would be remiss not to post:
So if the biggest impact has already happened and the effect is going to level off, can we have the other $593 billion back, please?
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Comments
I would take issue with the entire notion that the so-called "stimulus" bill even helped as Dr. Romer claimed in her testimony. The only thing it did was add to already balloning deficit brought on by ridiculous spending programs that the people neither need nor can afford. They should give it back... but they won't, considering all the far-left interests that will end up getting that money somewhere down the line.
>> Ted, FL Friday, October 23, 2009 3:35 PM
According to T. Boone Pickens, we're still spending something like 1/2 MILLION dollars...a MINUTE, on oil. Soooo...with that much money semi-permanently leaving the US economy, what's the final result going to be? If you had a tire that was losing air at a similar rate, wouldn't you be looking for the emergency lane, or a replacement tire, instead of trying to air it back up while you were driving? At this rate, is the government going to be thinking about tent cities? Even if people don't have jobs, or money, they still need somewhere to sleep that'll keep the rain out...
>> Bert Friday, October 23, 2009 7:46 PM