Issues
October 07, 2011
Chase Downham is the Indiana State Director of Americans for Prosperity, one of the nations leading conservative grassroots organizations focused on limited government and free market principles.
Most recently, Chase worked for the Indiana Chamber of Commerce as the organizations Manager of Political Affairs. In this role, Chase worked to recruit and help elect Chamber endorsed candidates for the Indiana House and Senate as well as drive the Chambers legislative grassroots activity.
October 04, 2011 JBudget & Spending
[img_assist|nid=25037|title=|desc=|link=url|url=http://www.americansforprosperity.org/budget-spending|align=left|width=79|height=103]Americans for Prosperity today released a policy paper detailing the organizations recommendations for the so-called Super Committee. The committee is tasked with identifying $1.5 trillion in deficit reduction measures. AFPs recommendations lay out over $5 trillion in spending cuts over a ten-year period.
* Click to read the full policy paper and recommendations
October 01, 2011 JEnergy & Environment
Last week I posted here on the AFP blog about EPA's admission that it would need 230,000 additional bureaucrats at an annual cost of $21 billion to process permits related to its greenhouse gas regulations.
After the Daily Caller reported on the same story, it gained so much attention that EPA went into damage-control mode. Politico ran a piece today trying to spin away the shocking story.
But the story is valid.
The regulation at issue is called the Tailoring Rule, which is EPA's unlawful attempt to act as a super-legislature, rewriting the permitting threshold to shoehorn greenhouse gases into the Clean Air Act. But the law says what it says.
September 29, 2011
Join Herman Cain, Mark Levin, Grover Norquist, and many more for the Defending the American Dream Summit on November 4th & 5th in Washington, DC! Dont wait - the Back to School special and early registration has been extended, but end this Sunday, October 2nd!
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September 29, 2011 JBanking & Financial Services
Yesterday evening, the Treasury Department announced the closure of the Small Business Lending Fund (SBLF). The program had set aside $30 billion in taxpayer funds to invest capital in small and community banks in hopes of easing the credit crunch on small businesses. After Tuesdays final wave of investments, total funds distributed reached a mere $4 billion (just 13 percent of the funds set aside), with investments in only 332 banks across the country yet another example of underwhelming participation in the governments main street financial interventions.
