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Mitt Romney on Corporate Taxes

February 13th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in 2012 Election, Mitt Romney, Tax Relief, Taxes

Take a listen to Mitt Romney easily parry the reporter’s loaded questions on this YouTube video from August, 2008. It reminds me why I believe that Gov. Romney is the most qualified candidate for President in 2012. Can you think of anyone else who can handle these financial and tax questions with such ease?

After four long years of political drift and massive deficits, we are going to have to unite behind the “best businessman in North America,” as CNBC’s Jim Cramer said a couple of years ago. We can’t afford the luxury of anymore bone-headed experiments in socialism in this country. We are going to have to return to the discipline of the “profit and loss” statement. If any proposal, from either party, can’t be proven to be deficit-neutral, the automatic answer is “No!”

~~John Cronin~~

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Notes from the Meg Whitman Campaign


As a small businesswoman, I can appreciate why so many small businesses in California are suffering.

My husband and I opened Cielito Lindo, a Mexican restaurant in South El Monte, in 1986. We provide jobs for more than 60 people and contribute our fair share to federal, state and local tax authorities. But like so many small businesses in California, we’ve been forced to lay off employees, trim paychecks and cut overhead just to stay afloat.

For California’s economy to rebound, we must encourage growth among the state’s small businesses.

That’s why I am supporting Republican Meg Whitman to be California’s next governor. Meg has the right kind of leadership experience and bold vision to help small businesses grow our economy, and she will make certain California stays friendly to small business owners.

As governor, Meg will cut taxes, reduce regulations and modify workplace rules to give small businesses like mine greater incentive to invest, expand and hire more workers as well as keep California competitive with other states.

Meg Whitman is the only candidate in this race with common sense solutions to stimulate our economy. And return California again to a place where small businesses can prosper.

Teresa Hernandez
South El Monte

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New York State of Revolt

December 3rd, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in 2012 Election, Mitt Romney, New York, Tax Relief, Taxes

Mitt Romney has long extolled the need to lower the tax burden on American families. The old maxim that whatever you tax you get less off has been proven true time and again.

The GOP needs to pay attention to the taxpayer revolt that is starting to sweep the country and realize that the voters have had to up to their earlobes with politicians who have never seen a spending bill that they didn’t like.

It’s stories like this latest one coming out of New York State that make me feel that Mitt Romney is going to be America’s choice for Mr. Fix It as we look at the financial carnage that Obama and an out-of-control Democratic super majority has wrought.

~~John Cronin~~

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704107104574571982940616144.html

Enough with the taxes, say voters in Westchester and Long Island.

Republicans won a squeaker in Long Island, New York’s Nassau County this week. And according to the loser, Democratic County Executive Tom Suozzi, it should serve as a warning to politicians nationwide, especially those in high-tax states.

“People are angry about property taxes, and they held the county executive accountable,” said Mr. Suozzi after conceding to Ed Mangano, a little-known local Republican legislator. “You’d better be careful, because you’re all at risk.”

Mr. Suozzi is not your typical tax-and-spend liberal. He’s been a sensible Democrat who has repeatedly called for tax reform and picked up the pieces of Nassau County after the GOP imploded. In 2001, when Mr. Suozzi became Nassau’s first Democratic county executive in three decades, the county’s bond rating was barely above junk.

But Nassau residents today pay the second-highest property tax bills in the nation (after New Jerseyans) and Mr. Suozzi got caught up in the revolt against rising levies. He wasn’t the only one. Last month in Westchester County, the high-tax suburb just north of New York City where Democrats outnumber Republicans by 2 to 1, popular Democratic County Executive Andy Spano lost by 16 points to low-tax Republican Rob Astorino, whom he beat by the same margin four years earlier.

The GOP now gets another chance to regain its footing in Long Island, and we can hope it’s learned something from the days of the Al D’Amato patronage machine that nearly bankrupted Nassau County. The broader lesson for other elected officials is that taxpayers have a breaking point, and this may not be the best time to test their limits.

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Chris Christie for Governor Television Ad: “Changing Governors”

November 1st, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in 2009, New Jersey, Republican Party, Republicans, Tax Relief, Taxes

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Share your 4th of July Tea Party Experiences at CTR

July 4th, 2009 | 3 Comments | Posted in Tax Relief, Taxes

I know the YouTubes on the 4th of July Tea Parties will start rolling in tomorrow, in the meantime, here is a YouTube that has a very good soundtrack and the protest signs held by patriotic Americans are a good indication of what’s bugging us on this holiday weekend!

~~John Cronin~~

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Tax Day Tea Parties a HUGE Success

April 19th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Tax Relief, Taxes

With all the Tea Party low balling going on, it’s good to see that there is a clearinghouse for the crowd estimates on this past Wednesday’s protests. With the final numbers still coming in, we know that at least 1,000,000 taxpayers turned out all over the country to protest the out of control spending and confiscatory taxation of a federal government out to consolidate it’s power in every nook and cranny of our lives.

~~John Cronin~~

http://www.teapartypatriots.org/

By: Mark Meckler

On April 15, 2009, at over 800 locations across this great country, the Tea Party Patriots gathered to protest government spending, bailouts, deficits and high taxes. The events were peaceful, patriotic and non-partisan, involving Democrats, Republicans, and many who no longer associate with any political party. Events included speakers, entertainment, and plenty of strong words for politicians who the Patriots see as corrupt, self-interested and disconnected from the lives of average Americans. While the final numbers are still coming in, they are huge by any standards. 20,000+ in Atlanta, 20,000+ in Sacramento, 7,500+ in Fresno, 10,000+ in Houston, and the list goes on and on. At this time it’s clear that when the tally is complete, the total number of participants will have exceeded 1,000,000. All across the nation, people came out to protest against government irresponsibility and politicians who are no longer interested in the public good. A great wave is sweeping the nation.

One speaker summed it up well when he said, “For too long politicians have used party affiliation, social issues, and the intentional promotion of class warfare to divide the American people. They have caused Democrats to hate Republicans, conservatives to hate liberals, pro-life advocates to hate pro-choice advocates, and the list goes on and on. Using the strategy of divide and conquer, politicians of all parties have distracted the American people while they destroyed our economy, increased our taxes, and lined their own pockets and the pockets of the special interests to whom they are obligated. The have consolidated their power, to the detriment of the people they serve.

Many groups are trying to take credit for the Tea Parties, and many are trying to promote their own organizations by taking that credit. But here at the Official home of the grassroots Tea Party movement, we know where the credit really belongs, and it’s not to any organization. The credit belongs to the 800+ citizen patriot organizers around the nation. The credit belongs to the 1,000,000+ patriots who sacrificed work or family to come out to protest their lack of representation in the political system. The credit belongs to you, the Tea Party Patriots.

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Weekly Wrap Up

April 18th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Spending, Taxes, Terrorism

As you all know, there was so much news to cover this week, that I thought I’d just post a kind of “catch all” post that would deal with several subjects.

According to the MSM, the Tea Parties were sponsored by “wealthy corporate lobbyists.”

We had a lot of fun with that one. I saw a booth that was signing people up who were interested in future Tea Parties and I called out to the woman at the booth, “Is this where I get my check from the “wealthy corporate lobbyists?” She laughed and said, “No, but if you find one, pick my check up while you’re at it.”

The Tea Parties were gatherings of, according to Janeane Garofalo, “Tea bagging rednecks” and that we were all “racists.”

Nice try, Janeane, but we ain’t buying it. The reason I ain’t buying it is that I was at the St. Louis Tea Party and I know from first hand experience that there were no “hate” messages on the signs and the vast majority of the crowd was typical middle America. People of all ages were there, from silver haired grandparents, to babies in strollers, there were no “skinheads”, no militia types and I didn’t see any signs that had any crude messages. As to the racist libel, I guess the African-Americans attending, holding up signs that protested the massive spending…..I guess they didn’t get the memo.

The rallies were attended by bitter Republicans who were angry about losing the election.

There was a group at the rally who called themselves “Democrats for fiscal responsibility.” I guess they didn’t get the memo, either. A couple standing next to me were Independents who are against this kind of spending, “whether they are Republicans or Democrats who are doing the spending.” In addition, not one politician, from either party, was allowed to get anywhere near a microphone.

The rallies were attended by a “few hundred rednecks” at each location.

What an insult to the American electorate and a flat out lie to boot. The Park Rangers estimated the crowd at 8,000 plus at the St. Louis venue, alone. Add in all the locations around the country and it is obvious to everyone, with the possible exceptions of Keith Olbermann and Janeane Garofalo, that their ridiculous crowd estimates don’t pass the “laugh test.”

The Dept. Of Homeland Security commissioned a report, that was later leaked, to the effect that returning Iraqi war vets are possible domestic terrorists and need to be watched.

You could safely wager money that Janet Napolitano would be doing some serious back pedaling on that one and, sure enough, the ink on the paper hadn’t dried before Napolitano was saying the obligatory mea culpa.

 What passes for Journalism in the United States has sunk to new lows

I am used to the elitists in the MSM peering over their reading glasses and tisk-tisking the “antics” of certain groups within the American electorate, but going after middle America, the heart and soul of this country, is something new. Not only in the recentness of the attacks, but also the tone of the attacks. “Rednecks,” “racists” possible “domestic terrorists.” Is it any wonder these organizations are going down the tubes? They are so out of touch with the rest of the country, it is stunning to witness their naivete. IMHO they have abandoned all pretext of journalism and are now sold out propagandists.

~~John Cronin~~

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Media Alert! MSM has new competition from Committed to Romney.COM Podcast!

April 2nd, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in 2010 Election, ACORN, Podcasting, Tax Relief, Taxes

This evening, April 2 was the maiden voyage of the new COMMITTEDTOROMNEY.COM PODCAST.

We have been very fortunate to have acquired the services of someone who has a radio production background and has been kind enough to provide his services to us at CTR.

Our initial pod cast covered the controversial invitation by the University of Notre Dame to President Obama to deliver the commencement address on May 17, as well as the inclusion of the community organizing group, ACORN, to participate in the 2010 census. We closed the first podcast with a segment on the proliferation of tax protest Tea Parties across the country.

I am not sure what the timing will be on our next pod cast, but we are already ‘ginning up ideas for our next segment. If you would like to help us with content by agreeing to be interviewed for upcoming presentations, leave a comment and I’ll contact you by email.

~~John Cronin~~

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Orlando Tea Party Lake Eola March 21, 2009

March 22nd, 2009 | 4 Comments | Posted in Congress, Conservatism, Florida, Tax Relief, Taxes

The crowd estimates vary, but upwards of 8,000 people showed up for a Tea Party in Orlando, Florida and they delivered a very clear message to the tax and spend crowd in Washington: “You have awakened a sleeping giant and now we are going to retake the control of the government that rightly belongs to us.”

~~John Cronin~~

Singer Lloyd Marcus told the crowd assembled in Lake Eola Park on Saturday that he was going to give them his take on the first days of the Obama administration.

Then he shrieked.

That pretty much summed up the mood in the park Saturday afternoon, when more than 4,000 people attended the Orlando Tea Party, a conservative rally aimed at expressing discontent with Washington.

“This is maybe the greatest single gathering of God-fearing patriots in the history of Orlando, Florida,” local conservative radio host Bud Hedinger, who emceed the event, told the crowd.

The attendees, many of whom said they’d heard about the rally on Hedinger’s radio show, brandished flags and homemade signs bearing slogans such as “Repeal the pork or our bacon is cooked” and “Obama lied, liberty died.”

“We’re really scared about what’s happening in our country,” said Debby Whisenand, 71, of Largo in Pinellas County. She waved a sign that read “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money” on one side, and “You can’t blame Bush anymore” on the other.

Her feelings were shared by Lisa Feroli, one of the event’s organizers, who said that a similar fear motivated her to e-mail Hedinger with the idea for the Orlando Tea Party.

“The goal was to get people united, to let people know that they aren’t alone in their feelings on despair,” Feroli said. “We want to speak out against the push toward socialization that we feel is taking place in our country.”

Several speakers addressed the crowd, estimated by Orlando police and event organizers at 4,200, on a variety of topics, including gun rights, freedom of speech, the dangers of communism and, most prevalently, the economy, especially the Obama administration’s bailout plan.

“We have had enough of massive government-driven bailout using our money,” Hedinger said, prompting the crowd to start chanting “U.S.A.” over and over.

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15,000 Tax Protestors Turn Out for Cali Tea Party

March 11th, 2009 | 7 Comments | Posted in California, Tax Relief, Taxes

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Canary in the Mine—Speech by David Kirkham at the Salt Lake City Tea Party

March 10th, 2009 | 6 Comments | Posted in Barack Obama, Pork, Speeches, Tax Relief, Taxes, Utah

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It’s Pitchfork Time Now


In the weeks after Obama’s election I thought there was at least a chance that he had played the Left big time. I thought, this guy talked the talk and walked the walk for over twenty years, courting the lefties to get there help in ringing the doorbells, stuffing the envelops and writing the checks to fund his campaigns but now that he is securely ensconced in the Oval Office, he doesn’t return their phone calls anymore.

That was then and this is now. Since the Inauguration, Obama has lived up to his advance billing as the most leftist President to ever occupy the White House and he is getting the reaction that we conservatives have been predicting for weeks: Tea Parties. Everywhere. On a shoestring. In parks. On waterfronts. College kids organizing events. Retirees. Stay at home Moms.

Any successful politician has got to have a good feel for what the folks are thinking, what they want from government. The current occupant of the Oval Office is either the most tin eared President ever, or he knows full well exactly what he is trying to accomplish and is openly defying the will of the taxpayers in order to pull off an internal coup and hand this country over to the Socialists who have been trying to bring this country to it’s knees for over a century.

The strength and ferocity of the expected backlash is something to behold. It reminds me of the days after 911, when people around the country started flying American flags, on their cars, the front porches of their homes, applying them to their clothing. Nobody told them to do it, it just seemed to come naturally. The Tea Parties have developed the same way. Because Obama’s reckless policies produced such a potentially explosive mixture, all the mixture needed was a spark to set off an explosion. As you all know, that spark was provided by CNBC’s Rick Santelli. Now it’s a movement.

~~John Cronin~~

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2199738/posts

THE BULLETIN

By: Patrick J. Buchanan

In his campaign and inaugural address, Barack Obama cast himself as a moderate man seeking common ground with conservatives.

Yet, his budget calls for the radical restructuring of the U.S. economy, a sweeping redistribution of power and wealth to government and Democratic constituencies. It is a declaration of war on the right.

The real Mr. Obama has stood up, and lived up to his ranking as the most left-wing member of the United States Senate.

Barack has no mandate for this. He was even behind John McCain when the decisive event that gave him the presidency occurred — the September collapse of Lehman Brothers and the market crash.

Republicans are under no obligation to render bipartisan support to this statist coup d’etat. For what is going down is a leftist power grab that is anathema to their principles and philosophy.

Where the U.S. government usually consumes 21 percent of gross domestic product, this Obama budget spends 28 percent in 2009 and runs a deficit of $1.75 trillion, or 12.7 percent of GDP. That is four times the largest deficit of George W. Bush and twice as large a share of the economy as any deficit run since World War II.

Add that 28 percent of GDP spent by the U.S. government to the 12 percent spent by states, counties and cities, and government will consume 40 percent of the economy in 2009.

We are not “headed down the road to socialism.” We are there.

Since the budget was released, word has come that the U.S. economy did not shrink by 3.8 percent in the fourth quarter, but 6.2 percent. All the assumptions in Mr. Obama’s budget about growth in 2009 and 2010 need to be revised downward, and the deficits revised upward.

Look for the deficit for 2009 to cross $2 trillion.

Who abroad is going to lend us the trillions to finance our deficits without demanding higher interest rates on the U.S. bonds they are being asked to hold? And if we must revert to the printing press to create the money, what happens to the dollar?

As Americans save only a pittance and have lost — in the value of homes, stocks, bonds and other assets — $15 trillion to $20 trillion since 2007, how can the people provide the feds with the needed money?

In his speech to Congress, Mr. Obama promised new investments in energy, education and health care. Every kid is going to get a college degree. We’re going to find a cure for cancer.

Who is going to pay for all this?

The top 2 percent, the filthy rich who got all those Bush tax breaks, say Democrats. But the top 5 percent of income earners already pay 60 percent of U.S. income taxes, while the bottom 40 percent pays nothing.

Those paying a federal tax rate of 35 percent will see it rise to near 40 percent and will lose a fifth of the value of their deductions for taxes, mortgage interest and charitable contributions.

Yet, two-thirds of small businesses are taxed at the same rate as individuals. Consider what this means to the owner of a restaurant and bar in Los Angeles open from noon to midnight, where a husband and wife each put in 80 hours a week.

At year’s end, the couple finds they have actually made a profit of $500,000 that they can take home in salary.

What is the Obama-Schwarzenegger tax take on that salary?

Their U.S. tax rate will have hit 39.6 percent.

Their California income tax will have hit 9.55 percent.

Medicare payroll taxes on the proprietor as both employer and salaried employee will be $14,500. Social Security payroll taxes for the proprietor as both employer and employee will be $13,243.

In short, U.S. and state income and payroll taxes will consume half of all the pair earned for some 8,000 hours of work.

From that ravaged salary they must pay a state sales tax of 8.25 percent, gas taxes for the 50-mile commute, and tens of thousands in property taxes on both their restaurant and home. And, after being pilloried by politicians for having feasted in the Bush era, they are now told the tax deduction they get for contributing to the church is to be cut 20 percent, while millions of Obama voters, who paid no U.S. income tax at all, will be getting a tax cut — i.e., a fat little check — in April.

Any wonder native-born Californians are fleeing the Golden Land?

Markets are not infallible. But the stock market has long been a “lead indicator” of where the economy will be six months from now. What are the markets, the collective decisions of millions of investors, saying?

Having fallen every month since Mr. Obama’s election, with January and February the worst two months in history, they are telling us the stimulus package will not work, that Tim Geithner is clueless about how to save the banks, that the Obama budget portends disaster for the republic.

The president says he is gearing up for a fight on his budget.

Good. Let’s give him one.

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Local Station Reports on St. Louis Tea Party


I hope to have more info on our local St. Louis Tea Party posted tomorrow, Sat. 2/28. But here’s a YouTube from a local station talking about the plans that “Archville” conservatives have to register their displeasure over Pres. Barack “I never saw a spending bill that I didn’t like” Obama and his expensive plan to reward irresponsible behavior.

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St. Louis Tea Party At the Arch — Friday at 11:00 AM

February 23rd, 2009 | 8 Comments | Posted in Economic Stimulus Plan, Missouri, Spending, Taxes

More evidence that Obama & Co. have awakened a sleeping giant.

~~John Cronin~~

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2191775/posts

St. Louis Tea Party At the Arch — Friday at 11:00 AM

OK, a St. Louis Tea Party is planned for Friday:

St. Louis area conservatives will host a protest against the Obama Generational Theft Act this Friday at 11 AM at the steps of the St. Louis Gateway Arch.

Bill Hennessey organized the rally. It was announced tonight on The Dana Show. Patrick Leahy of Top Conservatives on Twitter and Dana discussed this Tea Party wave.

Time and Place Date: Friday, February 27, 2009 Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm Location: The Steps of Arch Street: Wharf Street City/Town: Saint Louis, MO

Here’s the Facebook Page for details. Contact email bill@hennessysview.com

Pajamas TV set up a Tea Party protest page. Michelle Malkin has more on the movement.

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Three Stooges Pie Fight: Metaphor for this Administration

February 4th, 2009 | 5 Comments | Posted in 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Tax Relief, Taxes, YouTube

Here is a rare YouTube video showing the Obama administration and their behind the scenes deliberations as they make important decisions concerning replacement nominees.

As you know, three of the four nominees can’t figure out a 1040 form, but were considered for top administration posts, one is rumored to be awaiting indictment.

It’s hard to take these folks seriously and yet we have to. By some cosmic snafu, they are
actually running this country, well, sort of.

~~John Cronin~~

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