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The Wall Street Journal Doesn’t Think Anyone Makes Under $100k a Year
By Rob Tornoe with The Contributor: “While the top 1 percent of taxpayers will bear the biggest burden, many other families, affluent and poor, will pay more as well,” wrote Wall Street Journal reporter Laura Saunders in a story about the effect the “fiscal cliff” agreement would have on taxpayers. However, a graphic that accompanied […]
Continue readingI Wish We All Voted
I WISH WE ALL VOTED Ken Rumery 10/24/12 I wish we all voted, like the citizens of Iraq, smiling proudly, showing purpled fingers, risking danger for the right to have their say. I wish we took our democracy to heart, a power that expands from all of us, that grows from the bottom up like […]
Continue readingCandidates declare war on feds
The three Republican contenders for the state House and Senate seats representing Rim Country launched a full-throated call to wage figurative war on the federal government at a joint appearance last week before the Payson Tea Party. Incumbent state representatives Chester Crandell, running now for the Senate, and Rep. Brenda Barton and Flagstaff Tea Party […]
Continue readingHow Can Women back GOP?
To the editor: MIKE DAIGLE Flagstaff I am continually amazed by the number of women who not only support the Republican agenda but speak out for it. My first political awakening came during my college years (mid-1960s). Growing up and living in the deep South, the racial equality movement was a life-changing experience. During […]
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