Virginia’s General Assembly begins Wednesday, January 9. And there are a few different ways to follow the bills online. And of course, you can track bills right here on this website through Richmond Tea Party’s Action Center!
Bloomberg: Senate-Passed Deal Means Higher Tax on 77% of Households More than 80 percent of households with incomes between $50,000 and $200,000 would pay higher taxes. Among the households facing higher taxes, the average increase would be $1,635, the policy center said. While the white house web site declares victory: Raises $620 billion in revenue [...]
As in, “be careful what you wish for” Democracy has been accurately described as mob rule. Why? Because majority rule IS mob rule. The majority work their will on the minority, using force to do so. In the case of the mob, they just do what they want. In the case of democracy, they use [...]
How refreshing it is to see a US senator speaking out against his own legislative body! The Senate makes its own rules, and then routinely ignores them. He also points out how the Senate is playing a shell game by moving money around to pay for various items, thus being disingenuous to the American people [...]
From Breitbart today, a story about the tea party’s current state of influence. Timely article given Speaker Boehner’s inability to get his “Plan B” bill passed, which would extend current tax rates on most Americans while increasing those making more than $1 million annually. From the article: If the Tea Party [...]
Well, the auto industry bailout ended exactly as expected…total debacle. Remember how bailing out GM was an “investment”? Of course though, everyone realizes now that the bailout was simply a way to bailout the auto unions, and not to actually make GM more solvent. So here we are, several years later…and what do we get? [...]
Do you remember when you were a child and your parents told you that sometimes going to the doctor meant feeling some pain, but that was the best way to get well the fastest? Iceland followed the adult path after their own financial crisis; they took the pain like adults, and now they are getting [...]
Thank you to Kal Vernon for sharing this video about capitalism with RTP!
The Virginia Tea Party Patriots Federation has issued a press release regarding the recent republican purge of conservatives from various House committee positions. Full text below: For Immediate Release December 5, 2012 Virginia Tea Party Patriots Federation Contact: Mark Daugherty 540-885-5627 Email: trail100liberty@gmail.com 540-255-1431 Virginia Tea Party Patriots Federation Demands That Speaker Boehner Reinstate House [...]
Because you’re a sucker (click on the image to magnify, then use your browser’s “BACK” button to return here): The cash value of the benefits received (read: stolen from other people through the mechanism of “voting”) by a non-working single mother of two is more than $46,000 per year. The “negative income tax” column [...]
