Category Archives: Talking Points
Bring Back the WPA
Reprinted with permission Featured Article: Bring Back the WPABy Stephen Seufert “The overwhelming majority of unemployed Americans, who are now walking the streets and receiving private or public relief, would infinitely prefer to work.” FDR, 1933 It may seem hard to believe, but back in the 1930s the Federal government put Americans to work […]
Continue readingThe 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 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 […]
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