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AFP Patients First Health Care Rally
Patients First, a project of AFP, is joined by Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory at a rally against Government Run Health Care in North Carolina.
AFP Pres. Tim Phillips Discusses Card Check on Glenn Beck
AFP President Tim Phillips joins Glenn Beck to discuss the Card Check provision being pulled from the Employee Free Choice Act. However, now Congress is replacing it with another terrible provision which calls for a Fast Track Election.
Thanks to all of the DC tea partiers--and your friends who rallied back at home. Your efforts are truly inspiring.
Here are some links to aerial crowd photos and attendance estimates for the 9-12 event in DC.
http://www.lookingattheleft.com/2009/09/conservative-woodstock-rocks-the-capital/
READ MORE-Signs No Climate Tax Pledge-
PHOENIX-The Arizona Federation of Taxpayers, a state chapter of the grassroots free-market group Americans for Prosperity, today applauded U.S. Representative Trent Franks (AZ-2) for signing the group’s “No Climate Tax Pledge.” By doing so, Rep. Franks pledges to “oppose legislation relating to climate change that includes a net increase in federal revenue.”
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Contact: Frank Conte
Director of Communications
Beacon Hill Institute
Phone: (617) 573-8050
E-Mail: fconte@beaconhill.org
Monday, April 06, 2009
Cap and trade scheme will cost Arizona jobs
Backers' forecast is 'flawed,' says economic researcher
Phoenix, AZ--Specific proposals that several Western states would implement to comply with a proposed cap-and-trade carbon emissions control pact would destroy jobs and erode income, according to a report released by an economics institute.
READ MOREThanks to Intellectual Conservative for posting the latest AFP Arizona op-ed, co-authored by AFP policy director Phil Kerpen.
Here is the text of the op-ed:
Don't Let Cap-and-Trade Become Tax-and-Spend
by Tom Jenney and Phil Kerpen
Our impending grassroots victory on lifting the offshore drilling ban has nothing to do with the passage of the Pelosi bill in the US House of Representatives on Tuesday. Just the opposite: our victory is due to the fact that the Pelosi bill is going nowhere, and the fact that the drilling ban is set to expire automatically on October 1st.
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