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October 7th, 2010
Houston Independent School District school board president Greg Meyers announced yesterday the anticipated impact of Houston's Proposition 1 on the district. He told KTRK Channel 13 that the proposition would cost the...
September 30th, 2010
Houston's Fox 26 News weighed into the fight over Houston's Proposition 1 and the onerous fees that will be levied on home owners, renters, businesses, churches, schools and your favorite charity. The Fox News story featured...
September 16th, 2010
A sequel is rarely as good as the original story. In the case of the once proposed Houston Rain Tax, the sequel recently announced by Houston City Council is a nightmare waiting to be unleashed on all residents of Houston...
August 7th, 2010
The new plan to tax more people is now being undertaken by Representative Jerrold Nadler, a Democrat from New York. His "brilliant" plan includes higher tax rates according to the cost of living. This is a response to the...
April 20th, 2010
The following two links are to the same article, the first subject line from The Washington Post, and the second from Townhall.com, speaking of which, here’s a video from Townhall.com with recent news that might interest you...
March 24th, 2010
With victory on health care in hand, the Obama administration begins to move toward other targets including cap and trade, union card checking, as well immigration reform. But there is theme that is starting to coming up;...
September 27th, 2009
Increasing spending sure has been the popular trend with the Democrats this year. Apparently, Florida leaders have been determined to sustain this trend:
July 1st, 2009
In a compelling Washington Post article (subscription required) Fortune magazine editor at large Geoff Colvin reminds us that "what's politically irresistible is economically nonsensical".
October 6th, 2010
The City of Houston is trying to pull a fast one on the taxpayers! The new proposal of a "drainage fee", on the ballot as Proposition 1, is simply a new way of increasing the size of local government and expanding taxes to...
September 28th, 2010
The No Rain Tax PAC rolled out its new media campaign to StopPROP1. The brief infomercial takes a humorous look at how this radical proposition came to be. It enforces the point that Proposition 1 promotes a new onerous "...
August 26th, 2010
It’s back-to-school time here in Texas, and we all know what that means: tax-free weekend! This past weekend thousands of Texans headed to malls, shopping centers, and outlets across this state in order to purchase tax-...
July 29th, 2010
The Fair Tax is far more complex than the name implies. Everyone is for fair taxation and is sick and tired of the Progressive Income Tax. The Fair tax is not as simple and “fair” as one might think.If the Fair Tax Bill were...
April 15th, 2010
What do you think the government is going to do with the money you mailed into the IRS today?Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) wrote up a report that shows some of the worst examples of federal spending in 2008. Below are some of...
October 4th, 2009
Last nights opening skit of Saturday Night Live had Fred Armisen impersonate Obama and go down our presidents list of non-accomplishments, starting with not getting the Olympics for Chicago 2016 and going on from there......
July 3rd, 2009
With the Democratic majority in Congress, we in the Republican Party have become quite disgruntled with the impending tax increases coming our way. The Obama Administration is attempting to lull our conservative outcries...
June 6th, 2009
As part of the Obama Administration's plan for "fundamental tax reform", there has been growing interest in a new value-added tax, commonly referred to as a VAT. Daniel J. Mitchell explains in a Cato Institute article that...
