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Posted at 8:39am on Jan. 14, 2008 Sign the Petition and Help Protect Our Second Amendment Rights
By Rep. Eric Cantor
In a great victory for the American People, the U.S. Court of Appeals overturned the DC handgun ban saying it was a violation of the second amendment. For the first time in years a court held that the second amendment guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms. The United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case. Defenders of the second amendment have been working hard for just this moment in history for years.
Last Friday, the United States Solicitor General filed formal briefs asking the Supreme Court not to affirm the lower court's decision. This is just outrageous. The Solicitor General is the Federal Government’s lawyer. So, now we have the federal government using our tax dollars to argue for a delay on a ruling concerning our fundamental rights.
Let your voice be heard - sign the petition today.
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Posted at 1:24pm on Dec. 18, 2007 Speaker Pelosi, Fix the AMT
By Rep. Eric Cantor
This morning, I sent a letter to Speaker Pelosi calling upon her to bring the Senate-passed alternative minimum tax (AMT) relief legislation to the floor.
It is absolutely essential that Congress provide AMT relief to the American people; no previous Congress has ever failed to protect middle-class families and they deserve an up-or-down vote on the floor.
Read the letter below the fold...
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Posted at 12:54pm on Dec. 9, 2007 Pay-Go: Fiscal Responsibility or Political Cover to Raise Your Taxes?
By Rep. Eric Cantor
When the new majority implemented "pay-go" spending rules last fall, the American people thought they were getting a check on runaway congressional spending - not an excuse to raise taxes. Congress would offset any dollar of new government spending, we were told, with spending reductions in other areas.
Sadly, this year the majority has done nothing to change its profligate ways. Congress’ spending proposal came out $23 billion over the president’s budget request, an overall increase of over 10 percent from last year’s levels. Instead, Democrats have used pay-go as a pretext for a wave of new tax increases. Their strategy, disguised in the garb of “fiscal responsibility,” threatens to deal a decisive blow to American prosperity at a tense moment for our economy.
How does their stealth work? Consider the ongoing logjam over Congress’ attempt to patch up the alternative minimum tax (AMT). Because this tax was never indexed for inflation, 19 million additional taxpayers this year will be caught in its ever-expanding web, swelling the ranks of AMT payers to 23 million. Previous congresses have implemented a patch for middle-class AMT payers. But the inaction of this Congress has placed 23 million taxpayers at risk of a $2,000 tax increase this fiscal year.
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Posted at 2:39pm on Oct. 25, 2007 Fight This Tax
By Rep. Eric Cantor
Today, Charlie Rangel unveiled his "mother of all tax hikes" scheme – the largest individual income tax increase in American history.
By 2011, if adopted, the United States would have one of the highest top marginal tax rates in the world. This tax hike is nothing less than an economic death sentence to the millions of farmers and small businesses that drive America's economic engine.
Let's not mince words, if this Democrat tax hike is adopted, Americans across the country will lose their jobs – plain and simple. If the Democrat tax hike is adopted, small businesses will close and family farms will fold; perhaps more than any other single proposal in modern history, Charlie Rangel's tax hike guarantees a serious economic recession in this country.
That is the economic reality of this legislation.
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Posted at 5:14pm on Oct. 3, 2007 Sign the Petition - StandwithRush.com
By Rep. Eric Cantor
One failure after another, Washington Democrats have built a record of legislative failure; one disappointment after another, Washington Democrats have failed to deliver results to the people who got them there.
This must be why, just nine months into their tenure, the Democrat-led Congress hit an 11% approval rating – that is the lowest in recorded history. Facing their record of failure, Washington Democrats decided to try and distract – and so they took a man's words out of context, then they went on the attack.
It is at moments like these when we need to band together as conservatives and fight back. That is exactly what the Red State community and so many other conservatives around the country have been doing.
This issue is bigger than you or me, it is bigger than Rush Limbaugh. With the recent liberal effort to resurrect the "fairness doctrine," we have to recognize that free speech -- specifically, conservative free speech is under direct attack. These are issues that speak directly to the core of the modern conservative movement – are we going to allow ourselves to be pushed around by liberal extremists, or are we going to fight back?
Send Washington Democrats a message that their attempts to distract aren't working – to stand with Rush Limbaugh against liberal attacks, go sign the petition at StandwithRush.com.
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