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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, June 16, 2010
Contact: Kirby Wilbur (425) 269-7149 or James Valvo (703) 224-3200
-Signs No Climate Tax Pledge-
DUVALL—The Washington chapter of the free market grassroots group Americans for Prosperity (AFP-WA) today applauded U.S. House candidate Matthew Burke (1st District) for signing the group’s “No Climate Tax Pledge.” Burke joins more than 550 bipartisan candidates and lawmakers on the federal, state and local levels pledging to “oppose legislation relating to climate change that includes a net increase in government revenue.”
“The one thing elected officials should be able to agree on is that global warming shouldn’t be used as an excuse to hike taxes on citizens and businesses,” said AFP-WA State Director Kirby Wilbur. “We encourage all of Washington’s elected officials and candidates for elected office to sign the pledge.”
Cap-and-trade took its first step toward enactment last year when the U.S. House narrowly passed the Waxman-Markey energy tax bill, which escaped the lower chamber by a scant seven votes despite significant bipartisan opposition. The Senate has struggled to pass companion legislation, with several key Democratic senators openly expressing opposition to attempting to pass the energy tax bill.
President Obama has made no secret of his support for the bill, which would be the largest tax increase in American history. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office has scored the House plan as an $846 billion increase in federal revenue, a burden that will be borne by taxpayers and consumers for decades to come.
“Using the guise of climate change to transfer dollars from hard-working citizens to bureaucratic big government is unacceptable,” said Wilbur. “Regardless of their stance on global warming, this should be common ground for all of our elected officials at all levels of government.”
The pledge is available online at www.NoClimateTax.com. AFP does not endorse candidates. All elected officials and candidates are encouraged to sign the pledge and go on the record in opposition to using the climate change issue to increase taxes and grow the size of government.
Americans for Prosperity® (AFP) is a nationwide organization of citizen leaders committed to advancing every individual's right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP believes reducing the size and scope of government is the best safeguard to ensuring individual productivity and prosperity for all Americans. AFP educates and engages citizens in support of restraining state and federal government growth, and returning government to its constitutional limits. AFP has more than one million members, including members in all 50 states, and 25 state chapters. More than 60,000 Americans in all 50 states have made a financial investment in AFP or AFP Foundation. For more information, visit www.americansforprosperity.org
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That's great....but whose prosperity are they concerned about? Hmmm. Could it be the corporate elites who are already paying themselves tens and hundreds of millions a year? Why do I doubt that this group gives a damn about the wage worker, the family farmer, the small business owner?
ReplyDeleteAnonymous, I'm not interested in your class hatred and unbridled envy. Your old, Alinsky tactics don't work anymore. They are not persuasive and lack intelligence. Why don't you move somewhere a little more to your liking, like Cuba? You forgot to use the race-card by the way.
ReplyDeleteClass envy, eh? Are you envious when someone steals your wallet--or righteously angry? The elites have grabbed most of America's wealth (the richest 5% now have more than the other 95% of us):
ReplyDeleteSkyrocketing CEO pay--while workers get shafted
Deregulation that has allowed Bernie Madoff, Ken Lay, Neil Bush, and countless others who didn't get caught to steal from the public
$20 Billion in bonuses for Goldman Sachs execs who produced...what exactly?
And then guys like you want to make sure they don't have to pay any taxes. Matthew, please tell me:
Why does my small business pay more corporate income tax than a number of Fortune 500 companies?
Why do you want Junior to be able to inherit billions tax free, while people who lose their jobs have to pay tax on their Unemployment benefits (courtesy of the man you all worship--Ronald Reagan)?
Why do petty crooks get put behind bars for life with three strikes and you're out laws, while corporate execs who kill their workers (think Sago mine, asbestos industry, agribusiness that douses workers with pesticides) are rarely even fined, let alone prosecuted?
Class war? You guys started it.
Anonymous,
ReplyDeleteGood old Ronald Reagan, Class Warrior. I think the Republicans love him so much because he could do such evil things, then smile in people's faces and get them to feel pride in America--and vote Republican. The GOP has been in search of it's next great con man ever since.
I'm always amazed at the alternate reality some of you live in. Rail on Reagan with twisted ideas, but never a word of Carter. I was young, but I remember the gas lines, water rationing, excessively high tax rates that took tons of money from our working class family when my dad worked overtime at the refinery in order to make ends meet. Never mind that he had a family of 8 to support. All the Carter (and now the Obama) Administration saw were dollar signs. I distinctly remember my dad saying, "The more you make, the more they take." I remember the fear I had growing up in the Carter years because I didn't feel safe. Why? Because we had a spineless leader in the White House. Then, I remember in my pre-teen years, once Reagan took office, it all changed. My fears were gone. Our family could do more because my dad was able to keep more of his hard earned money. The Cold War ended so I wasn't under that constant fear. But, keep living in the Twilight Zone yourselves, people. I guess it makes YOU feel better.
ReplyDeleteFor all of you who want to decry "free markets" and "capitalism" while believing that your liberal progressive government interventionists are the only "good ones" out there, here is an article by a brilliant economist who happens to be black named Walter E. Williams.
ReplyDeletehttp://townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2010/05/12/free_markets_pro-rich_or_pro-poor
Right black
ReplyDeleteSo the gas lines and water rationing were Carter's fault? Gosh, all this time, I thought it had something to do with OPEC. Silly me.
I can understand you feeling so secure with Ron in office. I was awed to see a President with the guts to defy the law to fund a bunch of cutthroat murderers in Central America. No matter that they raped and murdered nuns or that they slaughtered peasants. He just called them Freedom Fighters, and stuck to his story, despite all evidence to the contrary. What a guy! ...and to think he got the money by having Daddy Bush and Ollie North trafficing cocaine out of the White House. Much of this, of course, was sent into poor black neighborhoods.
As I recall, Reagan set a record for the number of appointees who were sent to jail. Quite a few others resigned under a cloud and weren't prosecuted. Of course, Daddy Bush also pardoned Cap Weinberger and a few others from the Reagan cabal to stop the Iran Contra investigation, preventing them (and Bush himself) from adding to the impressive stats on jailed Reaganites.
G.W. Bush brought a bunch of these guys back to help run the country. Reagan made me feel proud to be an American again.
Love how you cherry picked what you wanted to continue to live in your Twilight Zone about. At this point, I can see that a rational conversation this is not. As editor in chief, I'm seriously considering deleting your comments. Free speech is one thing. Delusional, conspiracy theories is quite another.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, "Anonymous", the name is RightBlackVoice.
ReplyDeleteRBV,
ReplyDeleteAh, you are the editor. Well, rather than deleting, might you respond? What have I said that isn't true?
Reagan did violate the Boland Amendment, and was almost impeached for it.
They were supporting the Contras...who were mass murderers.
The drug trafficking wasn't proven, largely because of destruction of evidence and stonewalling. But Just why do you think Ollie North spent hours shredding documents? What was he hiding, if you don't think it had anything to do with drugs?
There is a LONG list of Reagan appointees who went to jail for crimes in office--an all-time high.
Daddy Bush did pardon several people to stop the Iran Contra investigation.
Oh, and by firing the Air Traffic Controllers, Reagan sent a signal that it was open war on unions, leading to a huge drop in income for the middle class.
This is history, RBV. Where am I delusional?
PS
ReplyDeleteYou must admit, your blog is much more interesting since I came along.
Matthew,
ReplyDeleteCould you comment on something. I love the idea of getting a handle on government expenditures, but I notice that the military is almost never mentioned. The military sucks up about a half trillion a year (I think I have my figures right), plus we are paying $150 billion on top of that to fund the war in Afghanistan. Isn't it time to make some severe cuts? The military drains a lot of money from our economy. What do you say?
David Makis,
ReplyDeleteHello? Are you that naive? Conservatives (and many of the so-called liberals in office) believe that the main purpose of the US government is to shovel money into the hands of the military industrial complex. We want endless war and occupation of countries throughout the globe. They will NEVER suggest that we cut the military.
Shut up, Anonymous! Let the man answer the question.
ReplyDelete