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December 20, 2010
Ohio’s unemployment rate dropped .1 percent to 9.8 percent in November, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services announced on Friday. Despite Washington Democrats' promise that their ‘stimulus’ would keep unemployment below eight percent and create jobs ‘immediately,’ Ohio and 46 other states have actually lost hundreds of thousands of jobs (Ohio has lost 165,000 jobs) since February 2009. Americans have had enough of the jobs-killing policies coming out of Washington. All year long they’ve been looking at all the ‘stimulus’ spending sprees, bailouts and government takeovers coming out of Democrat-controlled Washington and they’ve been shouting “Stop!”
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December 19, 2010
Congressman John Boehner (R-West Chester) hosted a reception yesterday evening in West Chester to congratulate the 24 Eighth Congressional District students selected to receive nominations to the U.S. service academies. WestChesterBuzz.com has coverage:
Rep. Boehner congratulates his 2010-2011 8th District service academy nominees at a reception yesterday in West Chester. For more photos, click here (courtesy of WestChesterBuzz.com).
Each year Boehner nominates select students for appointments to the U.S. Air Force, Merchant Marine, Military (West Point), and Naval Academies. The full list of 2010-2011 Eighth District Service Academy nominees is available here. To find out more about the nominating process, click here.
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December 16, 2010
As the House of Representatives moves today to prevent a massive job-killing tax hike on small businesses and families, other nations are moving to aggressively reduce the cost of doing business within their own borders by cutting the corporate income tax rate. In fact, just this past week, Japan announced that it would cut its corporate income tax rate by five percent – giving the United States the dubious distinction of having the highest corporate income tax rate in the industrialized world.
As the New York Times noted, the move is a pro-growth measure that will spur job-creation: Lowering the corporate tax burden by 5 percentage points could increase Japan’s gross domestic product by 2.6 percentage points, or 14.4 trillion yen ($172 billion), over the next three years, according to estimates by Japan’s Trade Ministry....Japanese companies have amassed unprecedented amounts of cash since the lean years of the 1990s, but have not reinvested the funds to expand domestically or increase employment or payrolls. A tax cut could whet companies’ investment appetite, the government hopes.The following chart, courtesy of Cato@Liberty, illustrates just how far the United States is falling behind the rest of the industrialized world:
The Cato Institute’s Dan Mitchell noted that: The U.S. corporate tax rate of nearly 40 percent (including state corporate burdens) already is far too high, particularly since America adds to the competitive disadvantage of U.S.-domiciled firms by being one of the few nations to impose an extra layer of tax on foreign-source income. Japan’s proposed rate reduction, however, means the high tax rate in America will be an even bigger hindrance to job creation. It’s also worth noting that the average corporate tax rate in Europe has now dropped to less than 24 percent, so even welfare states have figured out that a high tax burden on business doesn’t make sense in a competitive global economy.And the Heritage Foundation adds: “Of the 30 countries in the OECD, 27 of them have cut their corporate income tax rates since 2000. By standing still, the United States has fallen behind.” Even our neighbor to the north, Canada, has gotten the message: “Beginning in 2001 under a Liberal government, even the politically sensitive federal corporate income tax rate has been reduced. It is now 18%, down from 28%, and the plan is to reduce it to 15% in 2012.” President Kennedy once said that “an economy constrained by high tax rates will never produce enough revenue to balance the budget, just as it will never create enough jobs.” If Japan, Canada and the rest of the industrialized world can enact pro-growth tax policies that will create jobs, maybe the United States can too.
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December 14, 2010
President Obama today acknowledged his failure to end business as usual, saying Washington remains “about a lot of politics .. and big money.” It doesn’t get much bigger and more typical than the $1.1-trillion omnibus spending bill out-of-touch Senate Democrats unveiled earlier today. “All hell is breaking loose” after it was discovered this nearly 1,924-page monstrosity contains thousands of earmarks in what is being called a final feast for Washington’s “spending barons.”
This is one last meal the American people won’t go along with – and President Obama shouldn’t either. House and Senate Republicans have listened to the American people and instituted earmark bans for the next Congress. After we acted, President Obama said he looked forward to working with both parties to “end earmark spending” after failing to crack down on the practice as promised. Asked two days later whether that means President Obama supports an “outright ban on earmarks,” press secretary Robert Gibbs said “yes.” A follow-up query – “He does?” – garnered the same answer: “yes.” With that in mind, House Speaker-designate John Boehner (R-OH) has urged President Obama to oppose Senate Democrats’ pork-laden omnibus spending bill and announce he will veto it if necessary. Here’s Boehner’s full statement: If President Obama is truly serious about ending earmarks, he should oppose Senate Democrats’ pork-laden omnibus spending bill and announce he will veto it if necessary. This bill represents exactly what the American people have rejected: more spending, more earmarks, and more big government. Republicans strongly oppose this last-ditch spending spree, a smack in the face to taxpayers at a time when we’re borrowing 40 cents of every dollar we spend. Senate Democrats even go so far as to plow more than $1 billion into implementing ObamaCare, despite a growing national revolt against this job-killing health care law. We don’t have to wait until January to listen to the people and honor their demands for smaller, more accountable government. This is a chance for President Obama to show his support for an earmark ban wasn’t just post-election me-tooism, but rather an indication of the change in course the American people are demanding. As he said today, “my hope is that we're going to continue rebuilding a trust in government.” Think about how much harder that would be if President Obama refuses to oppose Senate Democrats’ pork-laden omnibus spending bill and breaks his promise to crack down on earmarks – again.
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December 13, 2010
CBS’ 60 Minutes traveled to Reading, OH, Speaker-designate John Boehner’s (R-West Chester) hometown, for a profile that explores how his working-class Catholic upbringing and small business experience shaped his view of how the economy works. During an interview with correspondent Lesley Stahl, Boehner discussed plans to cut Congress’s budget, part of a broader effort to fulfill Republicans’ pledge to America to cut spending and reduce the size of government.
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December 08, 2010
In this week’s Constituent Mailbag video, Speaker-designate John Boehner (R-West Chester) responds to Roxanne in Celina and James in Hamilton. Roxanne writes in to encourage Boehner to stop scheduled tax hikes from hitting families and small businesses on January 1, while James wants to know what Republicans plan to do to end the spending spree in Washington, D.C. Video and key excerpts are included below: Boehner Says if Lame Duck Congress Won’t Stop All the Tax Hikes, the New Majority in January Will:“For too long Congress has been playing political games with the tax hikes that are scheduled to hit virtually every American family on January 1. Instead of beating around the bush, Congress needs to stop all the tax hikes, and cut spending so small businesses in America can start hiring again.” Boehner Says Republicans Will Cut Government Spending, Make Good on a Pledge to America: “The new Republican Majority in Congress vowed to cut government spending in our Pledge to America, and that’s exactly what we intend to do. In the days to come, House Republicans will likely adopt a ‘Cut-As-You-Go’ rule. For lawmakers in the House, that means under ‘CUT GO,’ if it is your intention to create a new government program, you must also terminate or reduce spending on an existing government program of equal or greater size – in the very same bill.”
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December 02, 2010
On November 2, the American people sent a clear message to Washington demanding less spending and more jobs. Republicans are listening.
Moving forward with their Pledge to America, House Speaker-designate John Boehner and congressional leaders yesterday met with GOP governors-elect and agreed to work together and focus on solutions to create jobs and cut spending – including repeal of the job-killing health care law.
Speaker-designate John Boehner and Ohio Governor-Elect John Kasich talk about cutting government spending and ending job-killing economic uncertainty at a press conference following yesterday’s meeting with Congressional leaders and Republican governors-elect. “Republicans may still be outnumbered in Washington, but with the American people and reform-minded governors standing with us, there’s a lot we can do together to stop runaway spending and help small businesses create jobs,” Boehner said in a statement after the meeting.
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December 01, 2010
Last night, in response to news reports that Liberty University’s lawsuit against the job-killing health care law’s individual mandate was dismissed, the White House’s blog compared those who have filed a legal challenge to the health care law to people who opposed “the Social Security Act, the Civil Rights Act, and the Voting Rights Act,” stating that “challenges like this are nothing new.” While legal challenges to laws Congress passes may be “nothing new,” the heart of the suit against ObamaCare - the burdensome individual mandate - is new, because it is an unprecedented power grab by the federal government that will diminish freedom and job-creation. And unlike the Social Security Act, the Civil Rights Act, and the Voting Rights Act, the job-killing health care law was passed through Congress on a highly partisan vote, and signed into law over the objections of a majority of the American people.
But Republicans aren’t standing by while Democrats implement their job-killing health care law. Speaker-designate John Boehner (R-West Chester) and other GOP Congressional leaders are meeting with newly-elected Republican governors this afternoon to discuss “a collaborative effort” to “pick apart the health care law,” in addition to other pressing issues, like jobs and spending. One joint approach the GOP has taken so far is a legal challenge to the job-killing health care law centered around the unconstitutional individual mandate, which is weaving its way through the courts now. As the New York Times reported on Saturday, the unconstitutional individual mandate may well prove ObamaCare’s undoing: As the Obama administration presses ahead with the health care law, officials are bracing for the possibility that a federal judge in Virginia will soon reject its central provision as unconstitutional and, in the worst case for the White House, halt its enforcement until higher courts can rule….Virginia’s attorney general, Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, a Republican who filed the Richmond lawsuit, argues that if Judge Hudson rejects the insurance requirement he should instantly invalidate the entire act on a nationwide basis. As Boehner wrote in USA Today earlier this year, “This is the first time in American history that Congress has passed a law mandating that you buy something simply because you're breathing...If the federal government thinks it can get away with this kind of power grab, it will think it can do anything.” With the Pledge to America, Republicans made clear their commitment to repeal the job-killing health care law and replace it with better solutions. Republicans will continue standing with small businesses and fighting to repeal this job-killing law to give entrepreneurs the freedom and certainty they need to put Americans back to work.
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November 29, 2010
In this week's Web video, Boehner discusses his hope that an upcoming meeting on December 1 with Republican congressional leaders and newly elected governors will serve as the beginning of a collaborative effort to put an end to out-of-control government spending and help small businesses get back to creating jobs. Video and key excerpts are included below.
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November 23, 2010
During an interview today with Brian Thomas on Cincinnati’s 550 KRC-AM, Congressman John Boehner (R-West Chester) said that Republicans have heard the clear message Americans sent on Nov. 2, and will follow through on their demands for a smaller, more accountable and less costly government. Boehner also discussed the need to stop all the coming tax hikes and repeal the costly new health care law that is keeping small businesses from growing and hiring. Key excerpts are included below: Testing
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