INDEX
- Interior Department Hides Data, Pushes Back Offshore Drilling Plan
- It May be Sunshine Week, But There Are Dark Clouds over the Slaughter House (CFA Site »)
- Bill McCollum Signs Taxpayer Protection Pledge in Florida Governor's Race
- Sen. Lincoln (D-Ark.) New Ad: I'm not working for the unions
- Making Laws Should Be Transparent
- CFA in Washington Times: Read the Bill! (CFA Site »)
- How the FCC Plans to Tax the Internet (Stop eTaxes Site »)
- Study: Health Care Legislation Will Cost up to 700,000 Jobs by 2019
- Comprehensive List of Tax Hikes in Government Health Bill to be Voted on by House
- Testimony Before U.S. House Appropriations Committee on Labor
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
- The Second Annual Pat Quinn Income Tax Increase Proposal
- How the FCC Plans to Tax the Internet
- Oh, the Irony! It's Sunshine Week, So Let's Push Healthcare Bill Through Without Even Voting On It!? (CFA Site »)
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
- 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
- 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
- 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
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ATR Supports H.R. 4781, the
"Keeping American Businesses
Competitive Act of 2010" - 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"
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Tax Hike Free Budget Passes Arizona Senate, Moves to House
From Patrick Gleason on Thursday, June 4, 2009 1:35 PM
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Early this morning the Arizona Senate passed a budget that closes the state’s $3 billion deficit without raising taxes. The nine bill budget package passed by the Senate was approved on a 16-1 party line vote. All Democrats, save for one, were absent for the vote.
Americans for Tax Reform supports the Senate’s budget plan and urges the House to send it to Gov. Jan Brewer. Brewer has stated that she will veto any budget sent to her that does not include her sought after $3 billion sales tax hike.
“Unlike the Governor, the Arizona Senate comprehends one of the few things that economists of all political stripes agree on – the worst thing that you can do in a recession is raise taxes,” said Grover Norquist, Presidents of Americans for Tax Reform. “While not ideal, the Senate’s budget plan is far better than any plan that would raise taxes in this time of economic contraction and rising unemployment.
30 Arizona legislators have made a written pledge to not raise taxes. Despite making the same commitment to her constituents that she would oppose any and all tax hikes, Gov. Brewer is pushing a $1 billion per year sales tax hike that she alleges will be temporary and expire after three years. Arizonans that have land line phones are still paying the “temporary” tax hike put in place to fund the Spanish-American War of 1898.
“It is clear that Arizona has a spending problem and not a revenue problem. In the last five years general fund spending has grown at double the rate of population and inflation. Furthermore, Arizonans spend 194 days out of the year just paying for the cost of their government. Shockingly, Gov. Brewer doesn’t think this is enough” added Norquist. “Some elected officials view taxpayers, rather than spending interests, as their constituents. Americans for Tax Reform commends those elected officials like Sens. Pamela Gorman (R-Anthem), Russell Pearce (R-Mesa), Ron Gould (R-Lake Havasu), and Jack Harper (R-Surprise), who work for taxpayers rather than against them.”
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Comments
I believe your commitment to your constituents should be to collect the taxes needed to support the infrastructure, the education, and the social and health needs of the State. The people of the State of Arizona are ready to assume their share of the costs of these services. IT IS NOT A SPENDING PROBLEM. The cuts that the Universities, the public schools, and the social services of this State have experienced already are devastating, and now you have passed a budget that will extend those cuts and cripple our State. I urge Governor Brewer to veto this budget. I urge the House of Representatives to pass a budget that raises taxes to allow the people to support their State. Thank you, Mary Lou Forier
>> Mary Lou Forier Friday, June 5, 2009 12:58 AM