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Wednesday, June 13th, 2007 by Peter Deery
In this video from the most recent presidential debate, Rudy Giuliani stresses the need to move away from a system of “government and employee dominated” health care towards one of individual ownership. He offers a plan of $15,000 tax deductions for families to pay for health care and health savings accounts.
View his take on [...]
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Friday, June 8th, 2007 by Peter Deery
Once again, a tax hike is rearing its ugly head in the Keystone state. Governor Rendell is proposing a gross receipts tax on oil profits. This tax increase is expected to cost taxpayers an extra $760 million in one year. HB 1518 is another example of how politicians want to use your money to continue [...]
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Thursday, June 7th, 2007 by Peter Deery
At an event at the New Hampshire Institute of Art yesterday, presidential candidate Mitt Romney voiced his support for personal retirement accounts after fielding a question from Students for Saving Social Security:
“Personal accounts would be a big plus.” Romney said it would be a good idea to use the Social Security trust fund to allow [...]
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Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 by Peter Deery
CNN looks at Republican Mitt Romney and how being from Massachusetts benefits the presidential hopeful in the New Hampshire primary. The article cites historical examples such as in 1988 where Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis won the primary, in 1992 where Senator Paul Tsongas won and in 2004 where John Kerry notched a victory. It will [...]
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Tuesday, June 5th, 2007 by Peter Deery
National Review Online looks at the Massachusetts universal health care plan enacted under then Governor Mitt Romney and notes its similarities to the plan, that he is so quick to criticize, of Hillary Clinton
Judge for yourself
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Monday, June 4th, 2007 by Peter Deery
Kristina Rasmussen of NTU wrote a good piece on the internet tax moratorium and how not allowing it to expire has led to some reaching across partisan lines. The moratorium which was instituted in 1998 and renewed in 2001 and 2004, has kept taxpayers free from any new taxes on email and internet access services. [...]
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Friday, June 1st, 2007 by Peter Deery
Chairman Armey was interviewed for an article by the Politico focusing on our energy campaign to counter Al Gore’s global warming hysteria. In the article Armey stresses how our campaign is focused on the economically damaging aspects of Al Gore’s proposed global warming legislation. Our efforts around the country during the Memorial Day recess is [...]
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Friday, June 1st, 2007 by Peter Deery
Presidential candidate and anti-immigration enthusiast Tom Tancredo (R-CO) fields ten questions from people across the country for an article by TIME magazine. While the focus of the questions are on our illegal immigration problem, he does field a question on global warming. His response is interesting because he equates global warming to our illegal immigration [...]
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Friday, June 1st, 2007 by Peter Deery
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and former Clinton Energy Secretary discusses his energy plans on Meet the Press.
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Thursday, May 31st, 2007 by Peter Deery
President Bush today unveiled his plan today to begin negotiations on a strategy to significantly reduce greenhouse emissions and set attainable goals for reduction by the time he leaves office in 2009. The president, who has previously refused to sign on to any Kyoto provisions, envisions this strategy to be a successor to the treaty. [...]
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