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Public Pension Reform Now!
AFP-Tennessee is advocating for reform that changes government employee retirement benefits from defined benefit to defined contribution.
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Hands Off Our Health Care Rally!
We must remind the Supreme Court and all of Washington that the President's health care takeover is an affront to free-market principles and our Constitution.
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Americans for Prosperity (AFP), with over 25,000 members in Tennessee, released its congressional key vote scorecard summarizing how Members of Congress voted on the most important economic issues in the first session of the 112th Congress.
The scorecard included critical votes on such issues as the repeal of President Obama’s new health care law, preempting EPA’s purported authority to regulate greenhouse gases, Chairman Paul Ryan’s budget framework, ending ethanol subsidies, several Congressional Review Act resolutions of disapproval to overturn new regulations and the fiscal year 2012 appropriations bills.
Click here to view the 112th Congress mid-term key vote scorecard.
Dr. Art Laffer, former advisor to President Reagan and renowned economist, released a report on the state of Tennessee’s ‘Death Tax’ and concluded that had we repealed this tax 10 years ago Tennessee would be in much better economic health than it is today.
The Laffer report concluded that full repeal of the state’s Death Tax would:
READ MOREThe crucial vote on H.R. 10, the REINS Act, is fast approaching. By voting in favor of this important legislation on Wednesday evening, lawmakers in the House of Representatives can show Americans that they stand for checks and balances and curbing the unending stream of job-killing regulation coming out of federal agencies like the EPA and the NLRB.
Over 200 Republicans in the House have already signed on as co-sponsors to the REINS Act – we can count on their votes tomorrow. However, there are about 30 Republicans that have not formally put their name on the bill, including Representative Fleischmann from right here in Tennessee.
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