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Thanks to the efforts of Arapahoe County Treasurer candidate Dan Kopelman, FreedomWorks Colorado state director Beth Skinner, the Libertarian Party of Colorado, KHOW radio talk show Colorado Exposed, the Aurora City Council and others, the Aurora Mental Health Center decided to cancel their seemingly stealth tax increase election scheduled for May 2. Living proof […]

From Charlie Sykes’ website, radio talker in Milwaukee:
TAX POEM
As legislators debate how to gut the Taxpayer Protection Act, this poem is floating around the internet (author unknown):
TAX POEM
Tax his land, tax his wage,
Tax his bed in which he lays.
Tax his tractor, tax his mule,
Teach him taxes are the rule.
Tax his cow, tax his goat,
Tax […]

We all know how hard it is for Congressmen to stand up against pork-barrel spending, even if it is for seemingly uncontroversial federal waste like the “Bridge to Nowhere” or the “Johnny Appleseed Heritage Center.”
That’s what makes Rep. Charles Taylor’s vote against the $10m memorial to the victims of United Flt 93 so remarkable. […]

Time for Republicans in Texas to start living up to their own stated principles.
Here is the story.
The Republican-led House is voting today on whether to increase taxes on businesses and cigarettes, despite an over $8 billion surplus.
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House Bill 1 would dip into the surplus to give school districts enough money to reduce their property tax […]

This past fall, Colorado voters went to the polls and approved a measure that suspended $4 billion worth of tax refunds under their Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights. That measure – Referendum C (and its borrowing mechanism, Referendum D) – was sold to voters as a way to jump start Colorado’s economy as it turned […]

Should we “call shenanigans” (see South Park episode #213) on the Aurora Mental Health Center (AMHC)? They’re footing the bill for a special election on May 2 in the hopes of establishing a Mental Health District, which would increase the sales tax in Aurora by .2%.
If it passes, Aurora will have the distinction of having […]

Frank Beckmann is a drive time host on WJR; an 80,000 watt station with penetration into 15 states throughout the midwest. He is a conservative leaning host with listenership that touches most public opinion leaders.
FreedomWorks Director Randal Thompson will be a featured guest on his show at 9:35am on Monday, the […]

An editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal captures the state of the telecom debate in Congress. It celebrates the progress on cable franchise reform, but alerts readers to the threat posed by net neutrality laws:
But [this] bill also threatens to introduce a whole new wave of regulatory requirements by codifying “Net neutrality” rules in […]

The Senate is trying hard to spend even more of those tax dollars you just finished filing. The Heritage Foundation has just released “The Senate’s Deadly Sin: Larding Up Emergency Appropriations” which looks at the $24,000,000,000.00 (that’s billions) the Senate is right now trying to add to the President’s $92,000,000,000.00 President Bush requested for […]

The Tax Foundation has released its annual Tax Freedom Day report for 2006.
Tax Freedom Day is the day that Americans have earned enough since January 1st to pay their taxes if every penny earned were turned over to the government. This year, Tax Freedom Day is April 26th. We will work until April […]