Issues
November 08, 2011 JLabor, Education & Pensions
We need to tell Senator Patty Murray Do not levy new taxes on oil and natural gas companies. Adding even more taxes serves only to hamper job growth, chill capital investment, and harm energy security and national security. Increased taxes arent the answer less spending is.
Call Senator Murray at (866) 481-9186 to make your voice heard!
Our families deserve a future that is not laden with crushing taxes so we have an opportunity to succeed. Washington should address the real problem of spending.
Here in Washington State, we have five major refineries that support a total of 30,000 jobs, generate $1.7 billion in personal income and annually pay roughly $150 million in state and local taxes.
It makes NO sense to levy big tax hikes on U.S. oil and natural gas producers as our economy is trying to recover.
September 26, 2011 JProperty Rights
Last week, Washington State junior U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell joined in the Obama administrations curious war on American jobs. The newest target in Cantwells sights is a large proposed project in a sparsely populated corner of Southwest Alaska called the Pebble Mine, an undertaking to unearth rare natural resources that could provide thousands of well-paid jobs and millions in tax revenue to an area that is currently impoverished.
September 06, 2011
The following Op-Ed appeared in NWDailyMarker.com - Good information about this important issue.
The Seattle City Council appears close to requiring almost all businesses to provide employees paid sick leave.
Its an extremely rare idea with harmful potential outcomes that havent been fully examined by the council. Members of the Washington Retail Association want the council to slow down and perform an economic impact study of the effects of this idea before taking a final vote whether to approve it.
The proposal by Councilman Nick Licata would require all Seattle businesses with at least five employees to offer paid sick leave on a sliding scale. Employees of businesses with more than 250 workers could accrue up to nine paid sick days a year. Those with fewer than 50 employees would only be able to accrue up to five paid sick days.
July 29, 2011 JEnergy & Environment
This year is being coined a Season of Growth for the dramatic gains that have been made in school choice. And, indeed, it has been, with school choice programs being enacted or expanded in more than a dozen states across the county. But as we celebrate those fruits and those who cultivated them, we also must recognize their original Johnny Appleseed.
Although Dr. Milton Friedman died almost five years ago, his impact on freedom and specifically school choice continues to be recognized by freedom-loving people both in the United States and around the world.
July 13, 2011 JBanking & Financial Services
-Grassroots visit representatives district office urging spending cuts-
SEAVIEWThe Washington State chapter of the free market grassroots group Americans for Prosperity will join a huge coalition of conservative and tea party organizations in a nationwide effort to visit U.S. House Members district offices. The grassroots message this coalition will carry is that representatives must support a balanced budget amendment to U.S. Constitution that has spending caps and a requirement for a supermajority vote to raise taxes.
