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Nebraska 2012 Legislative Session
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Liberal activists have sworn up and down that the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline posed a threat to the environment. A 2011 report released by the State Department affirming the pipeline posed no significant environmental risk was not enough to quell liberal groups like Bold Nebraska from making alarmist claims about the pipeline.
Now the State Department performed an independent audit, and the Inspector General's office has released its report confirming the initial State Department finding were accurate and upheld the integrity of the process.
The Keystone XL Pipeline is safe.
The State Department environmental reviews says so.
An Inspector General's audit says so.
READ MORETaxing seniors’ retirement benefits is wrong.
According to the National Council on Aging over 16% of America’s seniors are living in poverty. In Nebraska that number is 9%; yet that number is artificially low because it does not factor in expenses, only revenue. Nebraska’s seniors may earn enough to avoid being quantified as poor, but when above average costs for medical care and insurance are factored in, too many of Nebraska’s seniors are struggling.
A state income tax burden on seniors already facing difficult economic hardship is wrong.
READ MOREOne-in-five Americans, 67.3 million people, receive federal government aid. The level of government dependence is the highest in our nation’s history, and is rapidly rising under the Obama Administration.
The Heritage Foundation reports that 70% of federal government spending goes to individual assistance programs, such as aid for housing, food, income, student aid, retirement benefits or other assistance.
70 cents of each dollar the federal government spends is redistributed to individuals in the form of government assistance.
The remaining 30% of federal spending is what’s left to fund national defense, transportation infrastructure, NASA, national parks, and basically run a government of 307 million people.
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