QUERY : Which number bothers you more ? 16,500 IRS Agents 1,200 Employees making sure support payments are properly made to small businesses and eligible citizens 5,000 Musicians An increase in the federal deficit by $109 billion in 10 years. As you ponder that taxpayer dollars are involved, remember to consider if the taxpayer is [...]
Mitt Romney, aka Mitts on our Money, made reference to a survey of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The reference to the Chamber of Commerce should have merited as much booing as the reference to repealing the Affordable Care Act. R-money is lucky the only booed him; given how much of the misery of the [...]
When John Kline (R-MN-02) was pushing HR 9 The Small Business Tax Cut Act, which would give a one-year, 20 percent tax cut to every business with 500 or fewer employees, it was noted that would benefit not just the local shops on main street but also sports enterprises. Thus a “small business” like the [...]
Expanding on Holly Cairns piece on the Senate’s rejection of Republican efforts to changing proposed NLRB procedures, it is appropriate to note the efforts in the House. John Kline (R-MN-02) as Chairman of the Education and Workforce Committee was presented with a companion resolution that matched the Senate’s — HJ Res 103. Chairman Kline was [...]
Last week, the Republican-managed House successfully passed HR 9 The Small Business Tax Cut … the cost $45.95Billion … for one year … with a projected 39,000 jobs created … with no offsets – so the National Debt will rise. The Republicans plan to find offsets later. This week, the Republican-managed House is focused on [...]
On Thursday, Raymond Cravaack (R-MN-08) spoke passionately on the House floor in support of H.R. 9, the Small Business Tax Cuts Act … specifically mentioning the complexity of the tax code and the tax burden on small business. Here are the highlights : American small businesses now spend between 1.7 billion and 1.8 billion hours [...]
Erik Paulsen (R-MN-03) is campaigning hard in the 2012 New Media Challenge by taking to Twitter to encourage people to Like him. (Background : The New Media Challenge uses taxpayer-paid House.gov website and other taxpayer-paid services to “push the House GOP to be more innovative in its online communications. A spirited competition goes a long [...]
Good thing, the House is in session today or I might not have known that today is …. National Golf Day ! Yep, just last week, people were questioning whether women should be welcomed as members at the Augusta National Golf Club … but that was so last week. This week, the House has already [...]
This is my maiden post on Minnesota Roundtable, so I hope it is a good one; here goes! On Tuesday, November 15th, Chip Cravaack held an approximately one hour telephone Town Hall. This was not the first of these events in which I have been included as one of Cravaack’s constituents. In every one of [...]
MN Blue Blogs: Ten articles from Minnesota blogs
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