Issues
May 20, 2013 JProperty Rights
“If you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen!” – President Barack Obama, July 2012 The skeletal structure of President Obama’s Summer campaign message in Roanoke, Virginia, received whatever muscle and flesh it still needed to fully come alive [...]
May 14, 2013
The IRS harassment of conservative groups hits close to home – try our very own Peach State where at least one local Tea Party group was targeted in order to smoke out its legitimate coalition with AFP-Georgia!
The Georgia Tea Party Inc has been around since the birth of the tea party movement. The Marietta-based [...]
April 30, 2013 JTaxes
The Georgia Agriculture Tax Exemption program (GATE) rules were only released in January but the impact of the rollout is already having a positive impact on Georgia farmers. The program is an agricultural sales and use tax exemption certificate issued by the Department of Agriculture that identifies its user as a qualified farmer or agricultural [...]
April 30, 2013 JBudget & Spending
In the wake of the 2008-2009 financial crisis, then White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel spouted what seems to be the ethos of the current Administration, namely, “never let a good crisis go to waste.” In the absence of a “good” crisis, we can only assume, you manufacture one. The 2013 sequester cuts from [...]
April 24, 2013 JBudget & Spending
The Fed, hurting air travelers out of political spite? Petty, yes. Surprising, no. Georgia travelers are experiencing flight delays at Atlanta’s Hartsfield Airport as a result of Federal Aviation Association (FAA) furloughs on air traffic controllers. Why them? Because according to the White House and the Department of Transportation, there’s no other way to make the cuts [...]