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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 [...]

Today, the Texas House passed the dynamic scoring bill that would change the way the government calculates the economic benefits of tax cuts. Let’s keep this momentum going!

The Allentown Morning Call has a piece on the tax and spend politicians in Pennsylvania.

Here is the piece.
Here is an excerpt:
Gov. Ed Rendell’s budget plan, which includes a series of tax hikes to shore up the state budget and expand programs, would continue Pennsylvania’s path from a low-tax to a high-tax state. If his budget [...]

Our friends at the Texas Public Policy Foundation has a new podcast out on telecommunications taxes in Texas.
Listen by clicking here!

State Representative Susan Lynn has a great post up on her blog.
Here it is.
Of all the issues large and small one matter seems to be a deal breaker in the question of whether we will have competition among television service providers. Build-out, or forcing a company to build-out service to unprofitable areas, is a point [...]

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.
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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 [...]