October 27, 2012 at 3:35 pm in Blog, Fiscal Responsibility, ObamaCare by Phillip Dennis ·
With the election only days away, the polls are still saying this election is a toss-up. The future of America hangs in the balance with the results of November 6th! Have you done all you can? Will you do more? Tea Party Patriots is working very hard educating independent voters on the importance of free-market…
September 19, 2012 at 7:31 pm in Blog, Debt, Fiscal Responsibility by Phillip Dennis ·
“When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.” Little did Benjamin Franklin know that his warning would be picked up by the left as the most successful political tactic in recorded history. That part of the Democrat playbook is even more popular than the “Call…
September 3, 2012 at 11:10 pm in Blog, Fiscal Responsibility by Phillip Dennis ·
In the past few weeks we’ve learned that the government spent $9 billion to create 910 green-energy jobs; the Navy bought 450,000 gallons of biofuels for $26 a gallon; and now according to Reuters, “The Pentagon is pushing ahead with a $420 million effort to build refineries to make competitively priced biofuels.” And this from…
August 26, 2012 at 11:28 am in Blog, Fiscal Responsibility, ObamaCare by Phillip Dennis ·
President Obama said during his weekly radio address today that he wanted to share “some actual facts” about “a lot of accusations and misinformation flying around” about Medicare. Let’s look at the “facts” that he highlights in his address: We’ve extended the life of Medicare by almost a decade. He “extends the life of Medicare” by paying…
August 20, 2012 at 10:52 am in Blog, Fiscal Responsibility, ObamaCare by Phillip Dennis ·
The U.S. Supreme Court may have upheld most of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, but that won’t fix its many flaws. Here are 12 problems that still riddle the 2,700-page law known as ObamaCare. 1. Imposes a Bevy of New Taxes. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts engaged in some tortured reasoning to…
August 15, 2012 at 7:22 pm in Fiscal Responsibility, ObamaCare by Phillip Dennis ·
The political left is conniving to make the case that Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan’s Medicare reform plan—which he co-sponsored with liberal Democratic Senator Ron Wyden (Oregon) and an earlier outline with liberal Democratic economist Alice Rivlin—is a radical departure from the current Medicare system that will hurt seniors. Don’t you believe it, and…
July 30, 2012 at 11:28 am in Blog, Fiscal Responsibility, Social by Phillip Dennis ·
WRITTEN BY CAROL BYERS Looking around at a country now strangled by increasingly unending rules, regulations and new laws and facing an uncertain future, I stop and wonder how this all happened. I remember all the freedoms and liberties we have lost along with all our hope and dreams for the future. I received a…
July 3, 2012 at 1:44 pm in Fiscal Responsibility, GAN, John Cornyn, News, ObamaCare, Senate by Kim Robinson ·
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) known as Obamacare, Senator John Cornyn, R-TX, is ready to go full throttle down the Road to Repeal of this legislation. Speaking to listeners of Austin’s KLBJ 590 morning radio show Friday morning, Cornyn said, “We’ve got…
June 28, 2012 at 1:42 pm in Fiscal Responsibility, ObamaCare, Obamacare Impact Stories by Phillip Dennis ·
By Carrie Severino The main holding of the case is that the mandate is upheld as a proper exercise of the taxing power. This is a decidedly awkward result, as the first section of the result explains that the mandate is not a tax for the purposes of the Anti-Injunction Act. During the oral argument…
