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- Geithner: Taxes on ‘Small Business’ Must Rise So Government Doesn’t ‘Shrink’
- Cuccinelli goes after another federal regulation
- Grim images must be put on cigarette packs by fall 2012
- Section 527 works to seat liberals as election overseers
- Winners and Losers of Straw Poll Auction
- Tea Partiers Create Their Own TV Show and Production Company
| Geithner: Taxes on ‘Small Business’ Must Rise So Government Doesn’t ‘Shrink’ Posted: 24 Jun 2011 10:44 AM PDT By Terence P. Jeffrey, cnsnews.com (CNSNews.com) – Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told the House Small Business Committee on Wednesday that the Obama administration believes taxes on small business must increase so the administration does not have to "shrink the overall size of government programs." The administration's plan to raise the tax rate on small businesses is part of its plan to raise taxes on all Americans who make more than $250,000 per year—including businesses that file taxes the same way individuals and families do. Geithner's explanation of the administration’s small-business tax plan came in an exchange with first-term Rep. Renee Ellmers (R.-N.C.). Ellmers, a nurse, decided to run for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010 after she became active in the grass-roots opposition to President Barack Obama's proposed health-care reform plan in 2009. "Overwhelmingly, the businesses back home and across the country continue to tell us that regulation, lack of access to capital, taxation, fear of taxation, and just the overwhelming uncertainties that our businesses face is keeping them from hiring," Ellmers told Geithner. "They just simply cannot." She then challenged Geithner on the administration's tax plan. "Looking into the future, you are supporting the idea of taxation, increasing taxes on those who make $250,000 or more. Those are our business owners," said Ellmers. To read more, visit: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/geithner-taxes-small-business-must-rise |
| Cuccinelli goes after another federal regulation Posted: 24 Jun 2011 10:40 AM PDT By Paige Winfield Cunningham, WashingtonTimes.com Wading into another fierce ideological battle, Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II has announced plans to sue regarding new federal regulation of the Internet and has urged other states to jump on board his fight against "net neutrality." Calling the regulations the "most egregious of all violations of federal law," Mr. Cuccinelli told The Washington Times on Thursday that he will begin in July or August to gather support from other attorneys general and private partners for a lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission. "They have no respect for the courts, no respect for the states, no respect for the Constitution, no respect for federal law," Mr. Cuccinelli, a Republican, said during an appearance on Capitol Hill at a lunch meeting of the National Italian-American Foundation. Mr. Cuccinelli has engaged the federal government in legal battles related to other hot-button political issues, including health care and climate change. The net neutrality issue has become a cause celebre for Republicans who fear the Obama administration is attempting to control the Internet. The regulations were approved Dec. 21 by the five-member board of the FCC over the objections of its two Republican members and are expected to go into effect this summer. They are designed to prevent broadband providers — companies such as AT&T and Verizon, which control the infrastructure of the Internet — from interfering with how companies such as Google, Netflix or a small startup use the lines. The goal is to keep cyberspace free from interference and guarantee that consumers can reach any website they want at the prices and speeds they are used to. To read more, visit: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jun/23/cuccinelli-goes-after-another-federal-regulation/ |
| Grim images must be put on cigarette packs by fall 2012 Posted: 24 Jun 2011 10:37 AM PDT By Michael Felberbaum, WashingtonTimes.com RICHMOND — Rotting teeth and gums. Diseased lungs. A sewn-up corpse of a smoker. Cigarette smoke coming out of the tracheotomy hole in a man's neck. Cigarette packs in the U.S. will have to carry these macabre images in nine new warning labels that are part of a campaign by the Food and Drug Administration to use fear and disgust to discourage Americans from lighting up. The labels, announced Tuesday, represent the biggest change in cigarette packs in the U.S. in 25 years. At a time when the drop in the nation's smoking rate has come to a standstill, the government is hoping the in-your-face labels will go further than the current surgeon general warnings toward curbing tobacco use, which is responsible for about 443,000 deaths a year in the U.S. "These labels are frank, honest and powerful depictions of the health risks of smoking," Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a statement. The FDA estimates the labels will cut the number of smokers by 213,000 in 2013, with smaller additional reductions through 2031. To read more, visit: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jun/21/grim-images-must-be-put-on-cigarette-packs-by-fall/ |
| Section 527 works to seat liberals as election overseers Posted: 24 Jun 2011 10:33 AM PDT By Chuck Neubauer, WashingtonTimes.com A small tax-exempt political group with ties to wealthy liberals like billionaire financier George Soros has quietly helped elect 11 reform-minded progressive Democrats as secretaries of state to oversee the election process in battleground states and keep Republican "political operatives from deciding who can vote and how those votes are counted." Known as the Secretary of State Project (SOSP), the organization was formed by liberal activists in 2006 to put Democrats in charge of state election offices, where key decisions often are made in close races on which ballots are counted and which are not. The group's website said it wants to stop Republicans from "manipulating" election results. "Any serious commitment to wresting control of the country from the Republican Party must include removing their political operatives from deciding who can vote and whose votes will count," the group said on its website, accusing some Republican secretaries of state of making "partisan decisions." SOSP has sought donations by describing the contributions as a "modest political investment" to elect "clean candidates" to the secretary of state posts. Named after Section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code, so-called 527 political groups — such as SOSP — have no upper limit on contributions and no restrictions on who may contribute in seeking to influence the selection, nomination, election, appointment or defeat of candidates to federal, state or local public office. They generally are not regulated by the Federal Election Commission (FEC), creating a soft-money loophole. To read more, visit: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jun/23/section-527-works-to-seat-liberals-as-election-ove/ |
| Winners and Losers of Straw Poll Auction Posted: 24 Jun 2011 10:30 AM PDT By Craig Robinson, TheIowaRepublican.com All of the fireworks at the Republican Party of Iowa's Straw Poll Auction made for an interesting list of winners and losers. Below is my take on how campaigns faired. Winners Rick Perry: It should be impossible for a non-candidate to make this list, let alone come away as the biggest winner of the Iowa Straw Poll auction. That's exactly what happened when the current crop of campaigns at the meeting freaked out and threatened to walkout of the straw poll auction when a well-known Republican attorney showed up at the meeting to bid for an anonymous soon-to-be candidate. It was eventually disclosed that the attorney who was there was representing the eventual campaign of Michigan Congressman Thaddeus McCotter. Still, the absolute meltdown of the perceived Iowa frontrunners should send a clear message to the Governor's mansion in Austin that nobody feels comfortable with where their campaigns are at in Iowa at this point. Thaddeus McCotter: So let me get this straight. McCotter didn't want to disclose that he was bidding on a lot because he didn't want it to overshadow his planned trip to Iowa and his eventual announcement that is sure to follow. It might have not gone as planned, but McCotter got huge buzz from sending a mystery woman to the meeting. I guess one could say that he has already rocked the Straw Poll. It's also fitting that McCotter grabbed, what I believe, is the second best available lot. McCotter has the same location that Mike Huckabee had four years ago. Maybe there is an unwritten rule that the candidate who purchases that space has to be able to play the guitar. Talk about making a splash. Ron Paul: The Ron Paul Revolution will take center stage at the Iowa Straw Poll now that Paul has purchased the same lot that has hosted the previous two winners of the event, Mitt Romney and George W. Bush. Paul had to pay a hefty price, $31,000, but the space is the closest of any other to the voting locations. The elevated walkways that will surround the Paul compound make it an ideal spot for the media to use as a backdrop. To read more, visit: http://theiowarepublican.com/home/2011/06/24/winners-and-losers-of-straw-poll-auction/ |
| Tea Partiers Create Their Own TV Show and Production Company Posted: 24 Jun 2011 10:25 AM PDT By: Paul Bond, Hollywoodreporter.com Hollywood tends to “depict conservatives and traditionalists and people of faith as halfwits,” says founder of Colony Bay, which will debut its first project, a drama set in Colonial America, at a premiere on Sunday. Those who belong to the conservative movement known as the Tea Party are acutely aware of the power of popular culture, so they have been cautiously delving into the creation of entertainment that promotes their values. It usually manifests itself in snippets of online political parody. Coming Sunday, though, is perhaps the most ambitious effort yet: A "TV show" created by a couple of Tea Partiers who have formed their own production company. The one-hour drama is called Courage, New Hampshire, and it premiers Sunday at a movie theater in Monrovia, Calif. Co-hosting the red carpet activities are Saturday Night Live alumna Victoria Jackson and radio personality Tony Katz, both of whom regularly speak at Tea Party rallies. Courage has the pacing and feel of a soap opera, though its set in Colonial America. While its creators are making it as a TV show, there's no distribution partner, so it's going straight to DVD after the premiere. The company, Colony Bay, is also trying to strike deals with conservative online TV outlets, like Glenn Beck's GBTV and Kelsey Grammer's Right Network, and are seeking a television VOD partner. Colony Bay was founded by James Patrick Riley and Jonathan Wilson, who started in Hollywood as an assistant in ICM's motion picture literary department and became director of development for Peter Hyams, working on films like End of Days with Arnold Schwarzenegger. They met when Wilson was forming the Pasadena chapter of Tea Partiers and he recruited Riley, an experienced Patrick Henry impersonator, to perform at an event. Riley, the wealthy owner of Riley's American Heritage Farm, a 760-acre apple and pear farm in Oak Glen, Calif. financed the first episode of Courage for $120,000. His money and that of other backers will fund future episodes. The first episode was filmed on the farm, where Riley has dedicated 55 acres to "living-history" educational tourism. To read more, visit: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tea-partiers-create-own-tv-205153 |
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