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'Ticks' sucking taxpayers dry
Apr 25, 2010
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Democrats are as happy as a tick on a fat dog. That’s because they’re getting every tax hike and spending increase they ever wanted.
Take the health care bill, for example. Setting aside the 20 tax increases included in the bill — which alone is enough to make the case that this is a bad, bad idea ...
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Big Government Is On the Way to ‘Help’ … Again
Apr 23, 2010
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Most Americans want government to perform its basic, Constitutionally-mandated functions, while keeping its nose out of the private sector and their personal lives – exactly what has not been happening recently.
It didn’t start with the Obama administration and current Democratic majority in Cong...
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Fill out your census form. It's important.
Nov 9, 2009
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By Lynn Westmoreland
It will only take 10 minutes, and it’ll benefit our state for 10 full years.
It’s time for the 2010 U.S. Census, and a form will be coming to your family soon.
Fill it out. It’s important.
I chair the House Republican’s Census Task Force, a group I founded this y...
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'Cash For Clunkers' woes preview Obamacare
Sep 10, 2009
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As Democratic members of Congress heard an earful over August from angry constituents worried about a government takeover of health care, hundreds of thousands of Americans were getting a sneak preview of what Obamacare might look like.
Washington, in its wisdom, instituted a seemingly simple Cas...
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'Obamacare' bends cost curve the wrong way
Jul 17, 2009
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Any national health care reform must focus on increasing efficiency so that more Americans can have access to affordable coverage.
Sounds simple, but if it was all that easy we would have done it years ago. The debate over how to get health care coverage to all Americans, after all, goes back to ...
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Stimulus package hasn't stopped economic slide
Jun 28, 2009
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Poor Joe Biden. The famously talkative vice president keeps the administration’s tight message machine constantly on edge.
They say in Washington that a gaffe is when you slip up and accidentally say the truth. That’s sometimes Biden’s problem.
In early February as the administration was stumpin...
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Congress can fix its mistakes on the Voting Rights Act
Jun 28, 2009
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All of the justices of the Supreme Court agreed last week that parts of the antiquated Voting Rights Act pose significant constitutional problems. From a court that could split 5 to 4 over the color of the sky came consensus that Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act imposes severe "federalism costs." ...
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Mr. Smith mimics Washington
May 12, 2009
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By Lynn Westmoreland
The “Smith Family” has an expensive house, a new car and they’d never purchase their chic clothes off the discount rack. If they want it, they buy it. Problem is, by the middle of April the Smith Family had spent all of the money they were going to earn during the entire year.
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Obama's budget racks up bill that we can't repay
Mar 31, 2009
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A few years back, Republicans controlled all branches of government and Democrats howled about the GOP’s budget gimmicks and spendthrift ways.
I admit there was some truth to their charges. I fought my fellow Republicans at the time to cut spending and shrink the size of government just like we’d...
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Americans wisely turning against stimulus plan
Feb 5, 2009
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It seems like every other day an old friend or business partner calls to let me know that they’re declaring bankruptcy or going out of business.
We can all agree that the United States needs a federal stimulus plan to give our crippled economy a jolt. Our economy shrank 3.8 percent in the last quar...
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