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Tea Party Patriots Weekly Report from Washington for 9/18/16
CALENDAR: The House will return on Tuesday, with first votes scheduled for 6:30 PM. They are scheduled to stay in town through Friday, with no votes after 3 PM. The Senate will return on Monday, with the first vote scheduled for 5:30 PM on a motion to invoke cloture on a motion to proceed to…
Read MoreHere’s what you have to go through to become a hair braider in some states
If our leaders really wanted to create jobs, they could start by keeping government from crushing small business ventures. In yet another example of bloated regulation, an Institute for Justice report has found that burdensome licensing laws require hair braiders to spend as much as 2,100 hours in training and thousands of dollars on tuition.…
Read MoreColumnist: ‘Work should be rewarded, not punished’
A writer and activist lobbying for right-to-work laws in Michigan criticized the status quo at the IRS and is pushing for a simpler tax code – one that doesn’t bog down hardworking American taxpayers. The Detroit News has the commentary: It’s a complex and corrupt system, now consisting of thousands of pages of instructions and…
Read MoreMemo for the Movement
Congress Must Reject the Internet Sales Tax Current Event: On April 25, the U.S. Senate passed a key procedural vote to consider S. 743–the so-called Marketplace Fairness Act–nearly ensuring passage. The bill expands the authority of individual states to cover out-of-state retailers, allowing them to force those retailers to collect sales taxes for them. This…
Read MoreDiana Reimer
Tea Party Patriots National Coordinator Philadelphia Tea Party Patriots I am a member of the National Coordinator Team of Tea Party Patriots and the Tea Party Patriots’ Pennsylvania State Coordinator, co-founder of the Philadelphia Tea Party Patriots, a citizen lobbyist and full time activist. After the 2008 presidential election, like most conservatives I was truly…
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