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I just received this email from the Republican Study Committee. This is where your tax dollars are going…
According to our latest count, there appears to be roughly 1338 earmarks included in the Labor-HHS appropriations bill. One of these earmarks, requested by Rep. Berkely, would provide $200,000 to the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy, (whose [...]

In a conference call with Congressman Scott Garrett (R-NJ) a new program called LEARN was discussed that would give states the option of opting out of No Child Left Behind and provide residents of those states a tax credit equal to the amount that they would have otherwise received in federal funding.
The LEARN Act will [...]

Senate Democrats are pushing for a budget plan that will significantly raise taxes and create a socialized health care system in Wisconsin. If all of their budget proposals pass, Wisconsin could easily move from the eighth most taxed state to the first!! We need to rally our fiscal conservatives in the Senate to stop [...]

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 [...]

Starting July 1, the condo termination law under the Florida Legislature’s property tax reform could pose some serious threats to property owners.
Currently, there are two colliding factors:
The proposed tax reform measure does not offer tax relief for part-time residents.
and
Under the condo law, many will likely receive potentially lucrative offers from developers who want to take [...]

Lawmakers in Florida have decided to move the presidential primary vote to January 29. Florida will hold the primary a week after early-bird New Hampshire and a week before February 5, or “Super Tuesday.”
Jim Greer, Chairman of the Florida Republican Party argues:
We recognize the (national) party’s need to control the primaries, but individual states need [...]

FreedomWorks is supporting a Taxpayer Bill of Rights for Tennessee. This tax and spend limitation would bring fiscal sanity back to the Volunteer state. Unfortunately, Gov. Bredesen opposes this measure. But FreedomWorks members will be supporting those who are taking a bold stand in support of TABOR.
For some background on our national TABOR campaign, CLICK [...]

The Wall Street Journal has a good piece on socialist health care in Illinois.
“Universal” government health care has once again returned as a political cause, with many Democrats believing it’s the key to White House victory in 2008. They might want to study last week’s news from Illinois, where Democratic Governor Rod Blagojevich’s tax increase [...]

Presidential candidate Tom Tancredo spoke about illegal immigration on ABC News This Week.
Here is a clip.

This report from CNS News is disturbing.
To receive a degree from Roger Williams University in Rhode Island, students are being forced to watch “An Inconvenient Truth,” the documentary on global warming produced by former Vice President Al Gore.
The science class requirement has prompted one conservative student to declare that “we should stop calling these schools [...]