The New Hampshire presidential primary is today, and our own Dick Armey weighs in on one of the candidates, Mike Huckabee, at RealClearPolitics. Here’s a sample:
Fiscal conservatives have spilled gallons of ink decrying his record, and for good reason. Yet the social conservatives who support him should be concerned as well, for Huckabee undermines the […]
President Bush unveiled his mortgage relief plan today. He’s decided to freeze the mortgage rates of perhaps hundreds of thousands of speculators and homeowners who might otherwise not be able to make their loan payments. Some have argued that the plan is fine because it uses no federal funds. Not so, says the Washington […]
Listen to field coordinator Joe Hilliard talk about FreedomWorks Pennsylvania.
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Robert Novak has written an interesting article on the proposal to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) from a 5 year budget of $25 billion to $75 billion. While this is a very popular program, he argues that this will help set up the health care debate after 2008 in favor of universal […]
FreedomWorks members in Yadkin County, North Carolina urged the Yadkin County Board of Commissioners not to increase their property taxes at a public budget hearing. The proposed budget for the 2007-2008 budget cycle
would raise the property-tax rate by 8 cents to pay for a $7 million jail and $26.5 million project to build two new […]
Today, FreedomWorks Chariman Dick Armey and Vice President for Strategy Kent Lassman joined Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI) at his press conference  in support of the Tax Increase Prevention Act. This bill would make permanant the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003. Without the bill, these tax cuts would expire, placing a $500 billion burden upon taxpayers.
Mr. […]
We are glad to report that the dynamic scoring bill (HB 2786) has been voted out of the House Ways and Means Committee. This bill, sponsored by Rep. Ken Paxton would require that dynamic scoring be used to determine the affect on revenue of each bill passed by the legislature. Most calculations in both state […]
Here is a good round up from our friends at Texans for Fiscal Responsibility.
In the Mail
A quick House Appropriations hearing this week referred all the good tax and spending limitation legislation to a subcommittee chaired by stalwart conservative Carl Isett of Lubbock. The legislation will get a hearing this week, which means now is a […]
If you received a letter from us about the North Carolina smoking ban (HB 259), please help us by TAKING ACTION NOW!
Then, please call volunteer leader Kathy Hartkopf at 919-599-0273, and ask her how you can best help us defeat HB 259.
If you are in Oregon and want to attend a hearing to speak out against tax increases, please contact me at bsteinhauser @ freedomworks.org
The hearing is scheduled for 1pm Wednesday at the capitol in Salem.
Here are the details: http://www.leg.state.or.us/07reg/pubs/commsch.pdf
Peter Suderman is a writer and policy analyst at FreedomWorks. Email him at: psuderman@freedomworks.org.
Chris focuses on technology, new media, finance, and trade policy at FreedomWorks.
Brendan is the Director of Federal and State Campaigns for FreedomWorks. He is the author of The Conservative Revolution: How to Win the Battle for College Campuses.
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