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Taxes - The Heritage FoundationTaxes - The Heritage Foundation Proponents of raising taxes have offered many straw man arguments and myths to support their case. View Article - Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:00:00 -0400 As we celebrate Labor Day, let’s remember what makes this holiday possible in the first place: American workers. For the most part that means small business. View Article - Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400 The CEO of Intel has joined the ranks of those labeling big government as the cause of our economic slump, not the solution. View Article - Sat, 28 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400 President Obama has called for a huge tax increase to take effect on January 1, 2011. Instead of reducing spending, he proposes to raise taxes on a wide swath of taxpayers—including small businesses—despite the weak economic recovery. Congressional Democrats stand poised (immediately following the November elections) to endorse the President’s request and threaten to go much further. Proponents of letting the tax cuts expire—which would indeed be a tax hike—have offered a wide array of justifications for this wrongheaded policy. Heritage Foundation fiscal policy expert J. D. Foster wades through the myths and straw arguments to set the record straight. View Article - Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:29:00 -0400 Curtis Dubay discusses the merits of extending the Bush tax cuts, including cuts for the middle class. View Article - Wed, 25 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400 Bill Beach discusses whether a national tax holiday would encourage more lending. View Article - Mon, 23 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400 The Economic Freedom Act, proposed by Representative Jim Jordan, would terminate the ineffective Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), and substitute a proven way to stimulate the economy: tax relief—from permanent repeal of the capital gains and death taxes to significant reductions in payroll taxes and the top corporate tax rate. Analysts at The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis (CDA) conducted static and dynamic analyses of the act (H.R. 5029), finding that over the long term, dynamic economic effects would offset much of the cost of the tax relief. In the short term, the act would increase the deficit if it was not coupled with reductions in spending. This means a specific plan for spending cuts is imperative. The CDA analysts detail the economic and fiscal effects of the Economic Freedom Act’s spending and tax cuts. View Article - Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:30:00 -0400 Bill Beach discusses the possible outcomes of a flat tax. View Article - Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400 J D Foster discusses the possibility of an American VAT. View Article - Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400 Imagine you are one of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s top political strategists. The polls show your party needs a game-changer, something that will transform what looks like a losing political hand into a winner. “I know,” you shout, “let’s push for a large tax increase on the ‘fortunate few’ — the 2 or 3 percent of the population with so much money they won’t even miss a few thousand bucks. The other 97 or 98 percent will feel no pain, and we’ll be able to call ourselves deficit hawks when all those billions start rolling in.” View Article - Tue, 10 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400 President Obama wants to drastically raise taxes in January View Article - Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:57:00 -0400 The CBPP's critique is based on faulty economic analysis and fundamental misrepresentations. View Article - Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:00:00 -0400 Liberals in Congress have a plan to raise your taxes after the elections this fall, something they must do to continue feeding the Obama Administration’s spending addiction. Watch for them to act after the midterm elections under the cover of the report from the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. View Article - Mon, 02 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400 Curtis Dubay returns to The Ed Show to discuss jobs and extending the Bush tax cuts. View Article - Mon, 02 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400 Curtis Dubay discusses renewing the Bush tax cuts to support economic growth. View Article - Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:00:00 -0400 The death tax: What does it kill? Who does it affect? It affects hundreds of thousands of small-business owners across the country—as well as their employees and community residents who benefit from the senior and day care centers, playgrounds, charities, and learning centers that are built or supported by small-business owners. Like water and sunlight in an ecosystem, small businesses provide sustenance essential to building and preserving communities. So high is the death tax that a large portion of heirs to small companies cannot afford to pay it after the business founder dies, and see themselves forced to sell to giant corporations—which have no personal ties to the communities of their new acquisitions, and thus no incentive to commit to local institutions. What does the death tax kill? The best of American life and civil society itself. The death tax is simply antithetical to the core of the American dream. View Article - Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:53:00 -0400 Millions of Americans face potential financial ruin because they bought homes they couldn't afford. Often, these homeowners were lured by initially low interest rates that provided the illusion of affordability. After a few years, these "teaser" rates reset upward, creating unaffordably high mortgage payments. View Article - Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:00:00 -0400 Senator Jim DeMint cites Heritage research in his speech on preventing the renewal of the death tax. View Article - Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:00:00 -0400 2010 is the only year since 1916 in which heirs to an estate will not have to pay the dreaded death tax. Victory for small businesses? Not yet—due to a legal quirk, the death tax is scheduled to come back to life in 2011. Studies, statistics, and real life have shown again and again that the businesses and families burdened with the death tax often see themselves forced to cut back on benefits, investments, and employees. The death tax keeps new jobs from being created, hurting not just the affected businesses, but the economy as a whole. Because it is a tax on capital, the death tax destroys as many as 1.5 million jobs that the economy needs as it struggles to recover. Heritage Foundation tax policy expert Curtis Dubay details a replacement for the death tax, and explains why Congress must kill the death tax—now. View Article - Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:09:00 -0400 The Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act would likely lead to the same conditions that caused the housing bubble of a few years ago. View Article - Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:00:00 -0400
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TEA Party Movement after the First Winter |
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Wednsday, April 14, 2010
www.meatandpotatoes.org
By: Brian Miller
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A year ago I posted a simple political cartoon to commemorate April 15th 2009, the day when America first woke to the quietly growing TEA Party movement.
I was just another blogger, typing away and screaming at the news of the day. Only months before I watched in shock, as then President Bush announced that:
“The government is the one institution with the patience and resources to buy these (foreclosed homes) assets at their current low prices and hold them until markets return to normal”
It was then that I first heard my wife utter the words “I must be in a bad dream”. Our world had turned upside down. So began the slow takeover of more and more of our property by a Government we no longer recognized.
Months after watching the first national eruption of TEA Parties, I too found myself at a meeting, and making new friends. How wonderful it was to be surrounded by such good people, with the same beliefs and fears. Like me, they all still remembered the America that I did, for we had all grown up in same great country that had been turned on its head.
 Soon I found myself on stage at one TEA Party after another. When I looked out to the crowd I saw thousands waging flags and homemade signs. But as the winter approached activities died down, chilled by one of the worst winters in a generation. The outdoor gatherings turned to small breakfasts of 20 or 30 people, or an occasional conference call of a dozen loyal patriots.
As the snow melted the crowds began to gather again, preparing to fight stronger than ever. April 15th 2010 looks to be even more amazing than the last year, with thousands of TEA Parties taking place on the same week from coast to coast. As the TEA Party Express stopped in Cleveland, the MC asked for a show of hands requesting, “Raise your hand if this is your first TEA Party.” Nearly half of the crowd of over 2500 did so, confirming what we all knew; more people are joining the movement with each event.
But the question remains, are we making a difference?
So many people are comparing the movement to that of the very revolution that formed our nation. I firmly believe if Benjamin Franklin could have attended a TEA Party last year, he would have noted the similarities to the attitudes held in 1774. So too would George Washington. It is Washington’s perspective now in the movement’s second year, which we truly need to consider.
 Washington’s first winter was difficult, and it was only the first. He suffered with a sporadic flow of new troops, each only dedicating no more than six months of service, a lack of funding and sparse supplies. We remember learning of Washington’s third winter, the agonies of Valley Forge, but his Army endured several more winters that were even worse with mass starvation and even mutinies. The time from the Boston TEA Party of 1774 to the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 represents only a fraction of a war that continued until the British finally began to pull out in 1783.
Today we face just as long a war, with just as great a task. To believe we can change this country with a single election would be a dream of fools. Each TEA Party is but a small skirmish yet needed to keep the momentum alive. Each push against oppressive legislation is but a battle on the field; some will be won while others lost. Each election is a major battle in a larger campaign measured by a bloody body count and ground gained in the form of conservative seats.
Should we stay true to our beliefs, and true to the goal of returning our nation to the path it was destined for, the Lord may smile on us. Only with unwavering commitment and divine providence can we succeed. Today we must press on, but some day, years from now, God willing, we will look around and see the benefits of our efforts. When that day comes, together we shall all bask in the sun as we realize we have weathered the cold winter of socialism and returned the light to our city on the hill. Then we can all go back to work in our own lives, confident again that we do so freely, doing so evermore, but with a watchful eye. |
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