Carrying signs reading “No Regulation without Representation” and wearing “Carbon Cops” T-shirts, with green-rapped SmartCars, the tour is rolling through Arkansas and will be traveling the country.
The effort is to stop the EPA from broadening its reach and using the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gases. The EPA has moved to determine greenhouse gases, including CO2 which we exhale, as dangerous.
Since the US Senate has failed to pass cap and trade legislation (which would cap our prosperity and trade our jobs to China), President Obama is at it again, trying to force intrusive global warming regulations on the American people by circumventing Congress and our Constitution.
The Environmental Protection Agency, under the direction White House Climate Czar Carol Browner, is ignoring the public outrage against the unpopular cap-and-trade tax scheme and is trying to impose even more intrusive energy regulations on the American people by ignoring the entire democratic process altogether.
Stand up and fight back! Join Americans for Prosperity’s Regulation Reality Tour at a location near you! See the future under EPA regulations…a future that might very well include Carbon Cops.
They look silly driving the Smart Cars across the country and issuing “citations” at our events for everyday tasks like mowing your lawn, filling your gas tank, or driving a truck. But this could be a frightening reality if we don’t urge our senators to stop the EPA before it’s too late. There will be countless permits and fees to enforce these arbitrary regulations, and you can bet they’ll send government bureaucrats to penalize you for simply living your life. With badges, caps, and flashing cop car lights, we hope our Carbon Cops wake citizens up to what a future might look like if we don’t act now.
We are planning the tour will come to Texas. Texas has sued the EPA to stop the regulation of greenhouse gases and global warming skeptics are demanding a full vetting of the issue in Congress.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said the EPA's greenhouse gas findings are laced with 'cover-ups, and the suppression and destruction of scientific evidence.'
Related links:
Texas has sued the EPA:
http://americansforprosperity.org/021610-press-statement-texas-takes-epa-court-global-warming-regulations
Learn more about the Regulation Reality Tour: http://regulationreality.com/
Americans for Prosperity has launched its Regulation Reality Tour in Arkansas:
http://www.americansforprosperity.org/032410-regulation-reality-tour-rolls-through-arkansas
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Reconciliation Act is a tax hike - a terrible bill
We suffered a huge setback in the fight for freedom when the president signed the Democrats' massive health care takeover bill into law. But we don't have time to rest, because the Senate is poised, perhaps as soon as tomorrow, to add a chaser to that bill that will make things much, much worse. The so-called reconciliation bill is so bad that in any other year, it would be the worst bill of the year. I know we're all tired, but we can't let the Senate get away with passing this bill without a public uproar.
Please click (or cut and paste the link) now to tell your U.S. senators to vote NO on the disastrous reconciliation tax hike bill. http://www.capwiz.com/americansforprosperity/issues/alert/?alertid=14857531&type=CO
This is how bad the Reconciliation Act of 2010 is. It includes:
1. A disastrous tax hike on capital gains and dividends. That’s the most anti-growth tax hike possible. The Reconciliation Act creates a new 3.8-percent Medicare tax on single filers over $200,000 and married filers over $250,000. The rich? Not quite. This slams business owners and makes it harder for them to raise capital for needed equipment purchases, expansion, and job creation. And there is no inflation indexing, so it will directly hit more and more taxpayers over time.
2. An increase in the health care penalty tax on employers from $750 per uncovered employee to $2,000.
3. A total takeover of the student loan industry, putting tens of thousands out of work in the private sector while building up a big new student loan bureaucracy.
4. A "fix" to the Cadillac tax that actually makes it worse, not better. Under current law the exemption amount is indexed to CPI plus 1 percent. That is not enough to keep up with medical costs. The reconciliation bill delays the start of the tax by five years, from 2013 to 2018, but it cuts the inflation adjustment to plain CPI. The lower inflation adjustment means that once the tax starts it will hit more people faster.
5. A Nebraska "fix" (the only one of the infamous and corrupt deals Obama signed into law yesterday that’s actually revisited in the reconciliation) that is actually a much worse deal for taxpayers. Nebraska no longer gets special treatment, but the new Medicaid funding formula puts federal taxpayers on the hook for 90 percent of the cost of expansion for all states, with special funding increases for 17 states and the District of Columbia. This is welfare reform in reverse; we should be building on the AFDC block-grant model of state control and innovation that worked so well in the 1990s, not federalizing Medicaid.
Please click now to tell your U.S. senators to vote NO on the disastrous reconciliation tax hike bill.
We lost the first round of the health care fight, which was tragic. But we can't sit by shell-shocked while the Senate follows it up with this disastrous tax-hiking reconciliation bill.
Thanks for all you do,
Please click (or cut and paste the link) now to tell your U.S. senators to vote NO on the disastrous reconciliation tax hike bill. http://www.capwiz.com/americansforprosperity/issues/alert/?alertid=14857531&type=CO
This is how bad the Reconciliation Act of 2010 is. It includes:
1. A disastrous tax hike on capital gains and dividends. That’s the most anti-growth tax hike possible. The Reconciliation Act creates a new 3.8-percent Medicare tax on single filers over $200,000 and married filers over $250,000. The rich? Not quite. This slams business owners and makes it harder for them to raise capital for needed equipment purchases, expansion, and job creation. And there is no inflation indexing, so it will directly hit more and more taxpayers over time.
2. An increase in the health care penalty tax on employers from $750 per uncovered employee to $2,000.
3. A total takeover of the student loan industry, putting tens of thousands out of work in the private sector while building up a big new student loan bureaucracy.
4. A "fix" to the Cadillac tax that actually makes it worse, not better. Under current law the exemption amount is indexed to CPI plus 1 percent. That is not enough to keep up with medical costs. The reconciliation bill delays the start of the tax by five years, from 2013 to 2018, but it cuts the inflation adjustment to plain CPI. The lower inflation adjustment means that once the tax starts it will hit more people faster.
5. A Nebraska "fix" (the only one of the infamous and corrupt deals Obama signed into law yesterday that’s actually revisited in the reconciliation) that is actually a much worse deal for taxpayers. Nebraska no longer gets special treatment, but the new Medicaid funding formula puts federal taxpayers on the hook for 90 percent of the cost of expansion for all states, with special funding increases for 17 states and the District of Columbia. This is welfare reform in reverse; we should be building on the AFDC block-grant model of state control and innovation that worked so well in the 1990s, not federalizing Medicaid.
Please click now to tell your U.S. senators to vote NO on the disastrous reconciliation tax hike bill.
We lost the first round of the health care fight, which was tragic. But we can't sit by shell-shocked while the Senate follows it up with this disastrous tax-hiking reconciliation bill.
Thanks for all you do,
How many errors are in the ObamaCare bill?
It has come to public attention that children with pre-existing conditions cannot have coverage which kicks in this year due to "drafting problems", considered a glitch.
And some senior drug coverage has been misconstrued.
Did they really read the bill? They claim they did - so did they understand the bill?
What has the Democratic congress done to America's healthcare and health insurance industry?
We don't know - untili they read the bill (carefully).
And some senior drug coverage has been misconstrued.
Did they really read the bill? They claim they did - so did they understand the bill?
What has the Democratic congress done to America's healthcare and health insurance industry?
We don't know - untili they read the bill (carefully).
Entitlement Rip-Off bigger than Madoff's scheme
John Stossel calls it an entitlement rip-off.
Bernie Madoff took money from people who thought he'd invested it, gave some to others who thought it was a partial return on their earlier investments and kept much for himself. That's called a Ponzi scheme, and his $50 billion fraud was called the biggest ever. But it wasn't the biggest. Social Security and Medicare are much bigger ones.
These are trillion-dollar scams. Medicare has a $36 trillion unfunded liability. Social Security's is $8 trillion. There's no money to keep those promises.
read more here: http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2010/03/24/entitlement_rip-off
Bernie Madoff took money from people who thought he'd invested it, gave some to others who thought it was a partial return on their earlier investments and kept much for himself. That's called a Ponzi scheme, and his $50 billion fraud was called the biggest ever. But it wasn't the biggest. Social Security and Medicare are much bigger ones.
These are trillion-dollar scams. Medicare has a $36 trillion unfunded liability. Social Security's is $8 trillion. There's no money to keep those promises.
read more here: http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2010/03/24/entitlement_rip-off
Texas Beats Other States out of Recession
March 22 (Bloomberg) -- Texas, the second-most populous U.S. state, is among the first to emerge from the recession that began in December 2007 as job growth returned sooner, Comerica Inc. said in a report.
The Texas economy followed other states into the worst economic slump in the U.S. since 1930s, bottomed in September 2009 and the Texas economy began growing, five months before job growth hit bottom for the rest of the country, according to the report today by Dana Johnson, the chief economist at the Dallas-based bank.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aV5B8K80bQaU
Good policies have produced prosperity in Texas - stay tuned for more information on how Texas is Number One and deserves the designation "Lone Star Strong"...www.LoneStarStrong.com
The Texas economy followed other states into the worst economic slump in the U.S. since 1930s, bottomed in September 2009 and the Texas economy began growing, five months before job growth hit bottom for the rest of the country, according to the report today by Dana Johnson, the chief economist at the Dallas-based bank.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aV5B8K80bQaU
Good policies have produced prosperity in Texas - stay tuned for more information on how Texas is Number One and deserves the designation "Lone Star Strong"...www.LoneStarStrong.com
The Top 5 Disasters in the Democrats' Reconciliation Bill
Don't be fooled. The bill before the Senate today does not clean up or complete the new health care law.
By Phil Kerpen - FOXNews.com
The Reconciliation Act of 2010 is a disastrous, anti-growth tax hike bill. If this were any other year, it would be by far the year's worst piece of legislation. This bill is once-a-decade bad, but unfortunately overshadowed by the all-time bad affront to personal freedom and fiscal sanity the president signed into law yesterday.
First and worst, the bill hikes the investment tax on capital gains and dividends. That’s the most anti-growth tax hike possible. The Reconciliation Act creates a new 3.8 percent Medicare tax on single filers over $200,000 and married filers over $250,000. The rich? Not quite. This slams business owners and makes it harder for them to raise capital for needed equipment purchases, expansion, and job creation. And there is no inflation indexing, so it will directly hit more and more taxpayers over time.
Investment taxes are especially inappropriate as a “pay-for”; that’s because every capital gains hike has actually lowered revenues due to the economic damage and behavioral changes it caused.
Second, the reconciliation bill makes the business assault of the new health care law much worse. It raises the penalty on employers from $750 per uncovered employee to $2,000.
Third, the bill takes over the private aspects of the student loan industry, putting tens of thousands out of work in the private sector while building up a big new student loan bureaucracy. And this is supposed to happen by next semester, so you can expect lots of headaches for students in the short term as well the long-term costs of bigger government.
Fourth, the "fix" to the Cadillac tax actually makes it worse. Under current law the exemption amount is indexed to CPI plus 1 percent. That’s is already not a high enough inflation bar to keep up with medical costs. The reconciliation bill delays the start of the tax by five years, from 2013 to 2018, but it cuts the inflation adjustment to plain CPI. The lower inflation adjustment means this tax will hit more people faster.
Finally, the Nebraska "fix" (the only one of the infamous and corrupt deals Obama signed into law yesterday that’s actually revisited in the reconciliation) is now a much worse deal for taxpayers. Nebraska no longer gets special treatment, but the new Medicaid funding formula puts federal taxpayers on the hook for 90 percent of the cost of expansion for all states, with special funding increases for 17 states and the District of Columbia. This is welfare reform in reverse; we should be building on the AFDC block-grant model of state control and innovation that worked so well in the 1990s, not federalizing Medicaid.
The bottom line: the bill does not clean up or complete the new health care law. It should be judged on its own extremely dubious merits and the Senate should vote no.
Mr. Kerpen is vice president for policy at Americans for Prosperity. He can be reached on Twitter, Facebook, and through www.PhilKerpen.com.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/03/24/phil-kerpen-obama-health-care-reconciliation-senate-nebraska/
By Phil Kerpen - FOXNews.com
The Reconciliation Act of 2010 is a disastrous, anti-growth tax hike bill. If this were any other year, it would be by far the year's worst piece of legislation. This bill is once-a-decade bad, but unfortunately overshadowed by the all-time bad affront to personal freedom and fiscal sanity the president signed into law yesterday.
First and worst, the bill hikes the investment tax on capital gains and dividends. That’s the most anti-growth tax hike possible. The Reconciliation Act creates a new 3.8 percent Medicare tax on single filers over $200,000 and married filers over $250,000. The rich? Not quite. This slams business owners and makes it harder for them to raise capital for needed equipment purchases, expansion, and job creation. And there is no inflation indexing, so it will directly hit more and more taxpayers over time.
Investment taxes are especially inappropriate as a “pay-for”; that’s because every capital gains hike has actually lowered revenues due to the economic damage and behavioral changes it caused.
Second, the reconciliation bill makes the business assault of the new health care law much worse. It raises the penalty on employers from $750 per uncovered employee to $2,000.
Third, the bill takes over the private aspects of the student loan industry, putting tens of thousands out of work in the private sector while building up a big new student loan bureaucracy. And this is supposed to happen by next semester, so you can expect lots of headaches for students in the short term as well the long-term costs of bigger government.
Fourth, the "fix" to the Cadillac tax actually makes it worse. Under current law the exemption amount is indexed to CPI plus 1 percent. That’s is already not a high enough inflation bar to keep up with medical costs. The reconciliation bill delays the start of the tax by five years, from 2013 to 2018, but it cuts the inflation adjustment to plain CPI. The lower inflation adjustment means this tax will hit more people faster.
Finally, the Nebraska "fix" (the only one of the infamous and corrupt deals Obama signed into law yesterday that’s actually revisited in the reconciliation) is now a much worse deal for taxpayers. Nebraska no longer gets special treatment, but the new Medicaid funding formula puts federal taxpayers on the hook for 90 percent of the cost of expansion for all states, with special funding increases for 17 states and the District of Columbia. This is welfare reform in reverse; we should be building on the AFDC block-grant model of state control and innovation that worked so well in the 1990s, not federalizing Medicaid.
The bottom line: the bill does not clean up or complete the new health care law. It should be judged on its own extremely dubious merits and the Senate should vote no.
Mr. Kerpen is vice president for policy at Americans for Prosperity. He can be reached on Twitter, Facebook, and through www.PhilKerpen.com.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/03/24/phil-kerpen-obama-health-care-reconciliation-senate-nebraska/
Democratic Coup d'etat: Where to begin?
After millions of citizens marched on Washington, spoke out at town halls, and contacted their representatives, it appears Congressional Democrats wore earplugs. Do they need hearing aids, or will the November election improve their hearing?
“The United States of Pelosi and Obama is a society of ants industriously toiling in order to hand over to government most of their “unneeded” resources so that government, with its superior wisdom, might distribute those resources for “the larger good.”
Read my favorite columnist, William Murchison: http://townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2010/03/23/democratic_coup_detat
“The United States of Pelosi and Obama is a society of ants industriously toiling in order to hand over to government most of their “unneeded” resources so that government, with its superior wisdom, might distribute those resources for “the larger good.”
Read my favorite columnist, William Murchison: http://townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2010/03/23/democratic_coup_detat
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
ObamaCare: It’s voodoo economics, corrupt, dishonest and shameful
Ten inconvenient truths about Obamacare:
Here are 10 inconvenient truths that could dog the President as he attempts to sell his health care plan to the country:
1. The cost of coverage will rise for the middle class: A family earning $100,000 would end up spending nearly a quarter of their net income on health care.
2. Health insurance premiums will go up for nearly half of Americans: 57% get subsidized while 43% pay higher costs.
3. Health reform is unlikely to create new jobs: new taxes would kill 690,000 jobs per year.
4. Federal funding may cover abortion: The president cannot amend a bill by issuing an order, and the federal courts will enforce what the law says
5. Four million people will lose their employer-based plans due to federal mandates – and those will be forced to go on the new government plan.
6. Medicare will cut services along with costs…to the tune of $528 billion.
7. The bill will not pay for itself because eliminating the “doctor fix” which they will enact later – at a cost of $209 billion, makes the 10-yr deficit exceed $560 billion.
8. Higher Medicaid costs will gradually shift to the states…phased in but mandated!
9. Doctor shortages could lead to rationing…46% said they would quit or retire.
10. The bill raises taxes for many individuals and businesses…as much as 40%!
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Ten-inconvenient-questions-about-Obamacare-88853462.html
Here are 10 inconvenient truths that could dog the President as he attempts to sell his health care plan to the country:
1. The cost of coverage will rise for the middle class: A family earning $100,000 would end up spending nearly a quarter of their net income on health care.
2. Health insurance premiums will go up for nearly half of Americans: 57% get subsidized while 43% pay higher costs.
3. Health reform is unlikely to create new jobs: new taxes would kill 690,000 jobs per year.
4. Federal funding may cover abortion: The president cannot amend a bill by issuing an order, and the federal courts will enforce what the law says
5. Four million people will lose their employer-based plans due to federal mandates – and those will be forced to go on the new government plan.
6. Medicare will cut services along with costs…to the tune of $528 billion.
7. The bill will not pay for itself because eliminating the “doctor fix” which they will enact later – at a cost of $209 billion, makes the 10-yr deficit exceed $560 billion.
8. Higher Medicaid costs will gradually shift to the states…phased in but mandated!
9. Doctor shortages could lead to rationing…46% said they would quit or retire.
10. The bill raises taxes for many individuals and businesses…as much as 40%!
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Ten-inconvenient-questions-about-Obamacare-88853462.html
Monday, March 22, 2010
The Health Care Bill Will Not Stand
This weekend, Congress took action in defiance of public opposition to socialized health care. That action will fan the flames of opposition.
As Texans were among those patriots outside the Capitol waving their Texas flags, we are reminded of those who fought valiantly at the Alamo. They lost that battle, but ultimately won the war.
President Obama says it's time to end the debate. Our response must continue to be that of John Paul Jones, "I have just begun to fight!"
We are here today clinging to our religion and our guns, vowing to fight at the ballot box – go to www.NovemerIsComing.com
The health care bill WILL NOT STAND.
We will fight it in the courts, and at the ballot box.
Together, We WILL TAKE BACK AMERICA!
Peggy Venable - Texas Director of Americans for Prosperity - is speaking tonight (Monday, March 22) in Houston at the King Street Patriots tea party -
• Meeting Location: King Street Patriots Office
• Meeting Address: 9562 Hempstead Hwy., Houston, TX 77092
• Time: at 7 pm.
You are welcome to attend and be a part of taking back America!
As Texans were among those patriots outside the Capitol waving their Texas flags, we are reminded of those who fought valiantly at the Alamo. They lost that battle, but ultimately won the war.
President Obama says it's time to end the debate. Our response must continue to be that of John Paul Jones, "I have just begun to fight!"
We are here today clinging to our religion and our guns, vowing to fight at the ballot box – go to www.NovemerIsComing.com
The health care bill WILL NOT STAND.
We will fight it in the courts, and at the ballot box.
Together, We WILL TAKE BACK AMERICA!
Peggy Venable - Texas Director of Americans for Prosperity - is speaking tonight (Monday, March 22) in Houston at the King Street Patriots tea party -
• Meeting Location: King Street Patriots Office
• Meeting Address: 9562 Hempstead Hwy., Houston, TX 77092
• Time: at 7 pm.
You are welcome to attend and be a part of taking back America!
Sunday, March 21, 2010
This Fight is NOT over
Great comments by my Congressman - Cong. John Carter:
This Fight Is NOT Over
Watch Carter address the constitutionality of the healthcare plan with Neil Cavuto of Fox by going to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9v9c7orRt0
(Washington, DC) - Democrats may have succeeded in passing what is likely the most unpopular and unconstitutional bill ever approved by Congress through illegal procedures and deception, but the fight to kill the proposal is far from over, says House Republican Conference Secretary John Carter (TX-31).
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tonight rammed through the House the healthcare takeover bill passed last December by the Senate, which is estimated by the Congressional Budget Office to cause 8-9 million Americans to lose their workplace health coverage, and an undetermined number of individual plans to cancel coverage as well. The bill also provides full federal funding for abortions, while cutting $500 billion from Medicare and raising taxes another $500 billion.
"An unconstitutional bill passed illegally will not stand as law," says Carter, a former Texas judge. "Not only did President Obama and Speaker Pelosi act with utter contempt towards the voters by pushing this horror of a bill against the wishes of the majority of public, they violated House and Senate rules repeatedly to do so. This was the most convoluted, disingenuous, and deceptive legislative process in the history of Congress. This place is now truly a swamp of corruption."
Carter is immediately engaging in talks with state attorneys general to mount a constitutional challenge to the U.S. Supreme Court to block implementation of the scheme, on grounds of multiple constitutional violations. Carter is also exploring the opportunities for a Constitutional Convention by the states.
"This bill is not just unconstitutional, but un-American at its core, and violates not just the law but basic human rights and liberties," says Carter. "As Conference Secretary I will now move to enlist support against every House Member who voted for this outrage. With a new House in January we can at minimum strip the federal government of the ability to implement any part of this bill. With enough seats we can override a veto, or by winning the Presidency in 2012 we can repeal it outright."
-- Peggy Venable (I thank Cong. Carter for his leadership and his standing firm for our Constitution and for his constituents.)
This Fight Is NOT Over
Watch Carter address the constitutionality of the healthcare plan with Neil Cavuto of Fox by going to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9v9c7orRt0
(Washington, DC) - Democrats may have succeeded in passing what is likely the most unpopular and unconstitutional bill ever approved by Congress through illegal procedures and deception, but the fight to kill the proposal is far from over, says House Republican Conference Secretary John Carter (TX-31).
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tonight rammed through the House the healthcare takeover bill passed last December by the Senate, which is estimated by the Congressional Budget Office to cause 8-9 million Americans to lose their workplace health coverage, and an undetermined number of individual plans to cancel coverage as well. The bill also provides full federal funding for abortions, while cutting $500 billion from Medicare and raising taxes another $500 billion.
"An unconstitutional bill passed illegally will not stand as law," says Carter, a former Texas judge. "Not only did President Obama and Speaker Pelosi act with utter contempt towards the voters by pushing this horror of a bill against the wishes of the majority of public, they violated House and Senate rules repeatedly to do so. This was the most convoluted, disingenuous, and deceptive legislative process in the history of Congress. This place is now truly a swamp of corruption."
Carter is immediately engaging in talks with state attorneys general to mount a constitutional challenge to the U.S. Supreme Court to block implementation of the scheme, on grounds of multiple constitutional violations. Carter is also exploring the opportunities for a Constitutional Convention by the states.
"This bill is not just unconstitutional, but un-American at its core, and violates not just the law but basic human rights and liberties," says Carter. "As Conference Secretary I will now move to enlist support against every House Member who voted for this outrage. With a new House in January we can at minimum strip the federal government of the ability to implement any part of this bill. With enough seats we can override a veto, or by winning the Presidency in 2012 we can repeal it outright."
-- Peggy Venable (I thank Cong. Carter for his leadership and his standing firm for our Constitution and for his constituents.)
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