John Edwards? Voting Record Shows Animosity Towards Taxpayers

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John Edwards? Voting Record Shows Animosity Toward Taxpayers

(Washington, D.C.) - In spite of John Edwards? short time in the Senate, the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) said today that he has a long record of voting against taxpayers. ?Out of a possible 100 percent, Sen. Edwards has a lifetime CCAGW congressional rating of 13 percent. He consistently looks for ways to spend tax dollars and his failing grade proves it,? said Tom Schatz, president of CCAGW. ?Taxpayers need to review his record carefully. Since 1999, Edwards? ratings have been 9, 11 15, 19, and 13 percent, respectively.?

Since 1989, CCAGW has scored members of Congress based on its review of numerous votes on tax and fiscal policy. ?The votes we review are of interest to every American taxpayer,? Schatz said. They are a strong indication of how a member of Congress acts on wasteful spending.?

According to the Department of Health and Human Services, the federal government spends between $33.7 and $56.2 billion annually for malpractice coverage for programs such as Medicare, and the costs of defensive medicine. Passing reasonable limits on non-economic damages would reduce those costs to $28.1-$50.6 billion a year. ?Being a trial lawyer, it is not surprising the Sen. Edwards voted against medical malpractice reform last year. Obviously he cares more about his special interest trial lawyers than taxpayers,? added Schatz. In 1999, Sen. Edwards even voted against a bill to limit lawsuits and damages from potential Y2K computer failures.

?When he has had the opportunity to reduce taxes and return money to the taxpayer, he just says ?no,?? said Schatz. ?He refused to eliminate the marriage penalty in 2001. In 2000, he voted against reducing taxes on Social Security benefits from 80 to 50 percent, as well as repealing the death tax. If Sen. Edwards had his way, the government would be much larger and personal wealth far smaller.?

One of the cornerstones of President Reagan?s Grace Commission was the closing and realignment of military bases. Since 1988, taxpayers have saved $17 billion with an annual recurring savings of $7 billion. ?The military base closing commissions have been a huge success, saving the Pentagon and taxpayers billions of dollars while improving national security,? said Schatz. ?But last year, Sen. Edwards voted to cancel the entire 2005 round of base closings, and this year he voted for a watered down version that would only affect overseas bases.?

?CCAGW considers John Edwards to be hostile to taxpayers. His 13 percent rating means he has voted against their interests 87 percent of the time in his six years in Congress. This is a record that deserves to be examined carefully by every American,? Schatz concluded.

CCAGW is the lobbying arm of Citizens Against Government Waste, the nation?s largest organization dedicated to eliminating government waste, fraud, abuse and mismanagement.


Edwards' Fiscal Policies Unlikely to Balance Kerry Ticket, Taxpayer Group's Analysis Finds

(Alexandria, VA) --Some say Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry may have selected running mate John Edwards to overcome a "charisma deficit" in his campaign, but how would his choice affect the federal budget deficit? According to an analysis from the non-partisan National Taxpayers Union (NTU), Edwards has earned "F" grades on NTU's comprehensive tax and spending scorecard for each year of his Senate service. And, he has supported legislation this year that would boost the federal budget by $92.1 billion. Among NTU's findings:

For 25 years, NTU has conducted an annual Rating of Congress based on every roll call vote affecting federal taxes, spending, debt, and regulation (typically 100-300 votes in a Congressional session). In 2003 John Edwards posted a 22% "Taxpayer Score" on the NTU Rating, compared to John Kerry's 14%. However, both men turned in scores sufficient (under 25%) to earn "F" grades from NTU.
Edwards' score last year was actually the highest he has ever achieved on NTU's Rating. Between 1999 and 2002, his scores ranged between 12% and 18%, thus earning him an "F" grade from NTU each year he has been in the Senate.
Despite Edwards' being portrayed as a more moderate candidate, he and Kerry have never scored more than 8 percentage points apart on the NTU Rating. In the year 2000, Edwards' score tied that of Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy (which in that year was also one point lower than Kerry's score).
Since 1991, National Taxpayers Union Foundation's BillTally system has assigned a cost to the legislation that each Member of Congress sponsors or cosponsors -- even those bills that never come to the floor for a vote. In the First Session of the 108th Congress, Edwards supported legislation which, if enacted in its entirety, would increase federal spending by $92.1 billion per year. This is roughly half the total cost of John Kerry's legislative agenda ($182.0 billion), but would still be sufficient to increase the estimated budget deficit for FY 2005 by an equivalent of 25%.
Since 1994, National Taxpayers Union Foundation's VoteTally system has tracked the spending at stake in votes cast by each Member of Congress. In 2003, Edwards cast votes whose effect would raise federal expenditures by $381.3 billion per year (or $318.3 billion when "mandatory" baseline spending is excluded).
"The data on John Edwards offers little comfort to taxpayers seeking spending restraint from Washington," said NTU President John Berthoud. "There is scant evidence to suggest his fiscal policies would be more moderate than those offered by the man at the top of the ticket."

NTU is a non-profit, non-partisan citizen group working for lower taxes, smaller government, and more accountability from elected officials at all levels. National Taxpayers Union Foundation is the research and educational arm of NTU. Note: For additional fiscal information on Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates, visit www.ntu.org.
 

conjur

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?Being a trial lawyer, it is not surprising the Sen. Edwards voted against medical malpractice reform last year. Obviously he cares more about his special interest trial lawyers than taxpayers,? added Schatz.
What complete and utter BS. :roll:

If the Republicans had sought to protect taxpayers, the legislation would have passed. Go do some research on the FAIR Act.
 

Riprorin

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So who, you might ask, is the Citizens Against Government Waste:

Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) is a private, NON-PARTISAN, non-profit organization representing more than one million members and supporters nationwide. CAGW's mission is to eliminate waste, mismanagement, and inefficiency in the federal government. Founded in 1984 by the late industrialist J. Peter Grace and syndicated columnist Jack Anderson, CAGW is the legacy of the President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control, also known as the Grace Commission.

In 1982, President Reagan directed the Grace Commission to "work like tireless bloodhounds to root out government inefficiency and waste of tax dollars." For two years, 161 corporate executives and community leaders led an army of 2,000 volunteers on a waste hunt through the federal government. The search was funded entirely by voluntary contributions of $76 million from the private sector; it cost taxpayers nothing. The Grace Commission made 2,478 recommendations which, if implemented, would save $424.4 billion over three years, an average of $141.5 billion a year all without eliminating essential services.

The 47 volumes and 21,000 pages of the Grace Commission Report constituted a vision of an efficient, well-managed government that is accountable to the taxpayers. CAGW has worked to make that vision a reality and, in a little over a decade, has helped save taxpayers more than $700 billion through the implementation of Grace Commission findings and other recommendations.

Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole has stated, "CAGW researches and identifies the most blatant waste in government and shows how it can be eliminated. CAGW has a long and successful record of winning major cuts in wasteful spending without sacrificing America's defenses."

House Republican Policy Committee Chairman Christopher Cox (R-Calif.) went even further: "CAGW has fought side-by-side with us for welfare reform and massive cuts in wasteful spending to shrink the size of government and the deficit." Rep. Cox called CAGW "the premier waste-fighting organization in America."

CAGW's membership has grown from 5,000 members in February 1988 to more than one million members and supporters today. This phenomenal growth is the result of taxpayers' increasing frustration with the squandering of their hard-earned money in the nation's capital.

CAGW is nationally recognized as the source of information on government waste. CAGW representatives appear frequently on television, radio talk shows, and in print.

CAGW produces numerous publications highlighting wasteful government spending. Government WasteWatch is the group's quarterly newspaper, which is distributed to members of CAGW, Congress, and members of the media nationwide. The annual Congressional Pig Book Summary is CAGW's famous exposé of the most glaring and irresponsible pork-barrel projects in the 13 annual appropriations bills and their sponsors.

The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) is the lobbying arm of CAGW. The CCAGW mission is to advocate the elimination of waste and inefficiency in government through nonpartisan public education programs and lobbying activities. Each year, CCAGW tabulates its Congressional Ratings, evaluating how each member of Congress measures up on key tax and spending votes.
 

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There's also the question of what the context of the bills voted against were. Less so than other "issues" you've brought up, but still something to take into account.
 

conjur

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CAGW is non-partisan? Hmmmm...some info on its founder, J. Peter Grace:
http://watch.pair.com/database.html#grace

J. Peter Grace - CNP Membership Directory (1984-85; 1988). Bachelor of Arts Yale University (1936), started in 1936 as Assistant Secretary at W. R. Grace, in 1945 became President and CEO, Newcomen Society, CFR, Knights of Malta: American Chapter of the Board of Founders, Knights of Malta President, 114 Avenue of the Americas [Who's Who in America (1976-77, 1992-93)] Grace was involved in Project Paperclip -- a post World War II CIA arrangement to remove classified information from dossiers so that former SS members and 900+ Nazi scientists could emigrate to the U. S. Hundreds of war criminals would find employment within government agencies and companies such as W.R. Grace chemical company whose president was J. Peter Grace.

When it was at its height in drug experiments, operation MK-ULTRA was formed. This was the brainchild of Richard Helms who later came to be a CIA director. It was designed to defeat the "enemy" in its brain- washing techniques. MK-ULTRA had another arm involved in Chemical and Biological Warfare (CBW) known as MK-DELTA. The "doctors" who participated in these experiments used some of the same techniques as the Nazi "doctors". Those doctors who were not indicted in the Nuremberg trials were imported from Germany under the program called "Operation Paperclip." The Nazi doctors were a valuable source of information to the CIA since many of the U.S. techniques mimicked what had already been done by the Nazis. [Winds, CIA: Bastion of Integrity]

From 1982-95, J. Peter Grace (CFR) was Chairman of the Advisory Committee of AmeriCares, which included William E. Simon (CFR), Treasury Secretary under Richard Nixon. The Honorary Chair of AmeriCares is Zbigniew Brzezinski (BB/CFR/TC); Ambassador-At-Large is Barbara Bush and the Advisory Committee includes: Prescott S. Bush, Jr. [brother to former Pres. George Bush (CFR)], 33º Mason Gen. Colin L. Powell (ret.) (CFR) and Sol M. Linowitz (CFR/TC), chairman of Xerox Corp and officer of the World Future Society. Sol Linowitz was also a representative to the Organization of American States and co-founder in 1964 with David Rockefeller (CFR) of the International Executive Services Corp, an international business development organization for which Linowitz and Rockefeller received the Medal of Freedom Award in 1998. [John Birch Society]
 
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A quick look at the CAGW Senate ratings reveals consistently much higher ratings for Republicans generally, as compared to Democrats (at a glance, the average Repub appears to score around 70, and the average Dem about 15).

While they are entitled to their opinions, it's clear they are much more philosophically predisposed to support Republicans.
 

conjur

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More on CAGW:
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Citizens_Against_Government_Waste
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) is an industry-funded organization that has campaigned on behalf of the tobacco industry and pro-Microsoft/against open source software.

A few examples of tobacco industry donations to CAGW:

Philip Morris
1995, $50,000 [1]
1996, $50,000 [2]
1997, $50,000 [3]
1998, $35,000 [4]
1999, $10,000 (budgeted) [5]
The Tobacco Institute
1999, $10,000 (budgeted) [6]


And
Vin Weber, former U.S. Representative from Minnesota (80-92), is considered to be a "neo-con" neo-conservative.

Weber is co-founder and co-director of Empower America. He is currently a partner in Clark & Weinstock and co-director of the Aspen Institute's Domestic Strategy Group.

Mr. Weber is now the chairman of the board at the National Endowment for Democracy, and member of the Board of Directors of Citizens Against Government Waste.
 

Riprorin

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From June 2002: Rating Congress:

CCAGW also recognizes Taxpayer Heroes, those who score 80 to 99 percent. In the Senate there were 22 all Republicans, while the House had 78, also all Republicans. The highest scoring Democrat in the Senate was Georgia's Zell Miller with 50 percent, while the highest in the House was Texan Ralph Hall with 78 percent.

Overall, the average score for Republicans in the House was 76 percent. Democrats scored 18 percent. In the Senate, Republicans scored an average of 77 percent and Democrats were at 15 percent. In the Senate, Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) scored 5 percent, while his counterpart Minority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.), had a score of 80 percent. In the House, Speaker Hastert scored 100 percent, while Minority Leader Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.) scored 7 percent.

This isn't like golf folks, a higher number is better.

By the way, Kerry had a rating of 5 in 2001 and a lifetime rating of 26.

In the Senate, Ensign (R-Nevada) had the highest rating at 100.
 

Riprorin

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Originally posted by: conjur
More on CAGW:
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Citizens_Against_Government_Waste
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) is an industry-funded organization that has campaigned on behalf of the tobacco industry and pro-Microsoft/against open source software.

A few examples of tobacco industry donations to CAGW:

Philip Morris
1995, $50,000 [1]
1996, $50,000 [2]
1997, $50,000 [3]
1998, $35,000 [4]
1999, $10,000 (budgeted) [5]
The Tobacco Institute
1999, $10,000 (budgeted) [6]


And
Vin Weber, former U.S. Representative from Minnesota (80-92), is considered to be a "neo-con" neo-conservative.

Weber is co-founder and co-director of Empower America. He is currently a partner in Clark & Weinstock and co-director of the Aspen Institute's Domestic Strategy Group.

Mr. Weber is now the chairman of the board at the National Endowment for Democracy, and member of the Board of Directors of Citizens Against Government Waste.

It's fun to watch you spin!
 

DealMonkey

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Wow, it's a one-man crusade. How's that workin' for you Rip? Have you finally achieved balance in the forums? How's that ratio of anti-Bush to anti-Kerry/Edwards posts? Lookin' good...
 

conjur

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Originally posted by: Riprorin
Originally posted by: conjur
More on CAGW:
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Citizens_Against_Government_Waste
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) is an industry-funded organization that has campaigned on behalf of the tobacco industry and pro-Microsoft/against open source software.

A few examples of tobacco industry donations to CAGW:

Philip Morris
1995, $50,000 [1]
1996, $50,000 [2]
1997, $50,000 [3]
1998, $35,000 [4]
1999, $10,000 (budgeted) [5]
The Tobacco Institute
1999, $10,000 (budgeted) [6]


And
Vin Weber, former U.S. Representative from Minnesota (80-92), is considered to be a "neo-con" neo-conservative.

Weber is co-founder and co-director of Empower America. He is currently a partner in Clark & Weinstock and co-director of the Aspen Institute's Domestic Strategy Group.

Mr. Weber is now the chairman of the board at the National Endowment for Democracy, and member of the Board of Directors of Citizens Against Government Waste.

It's fun to watch you spin!

Uh...how is posting FACTS considered spin??

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Originally posted by: Riprorin
From June 2002: Rating Congress:

CCAGW also recognizes Taxpayer Heroes, those who score 80 to 99 percent. In the Senate there were 22 all Republicans, while the House had 78, also all Republicans. The highest scoring Democrat in the Senate was Georgia's Zell Miller with 50 percent, while the highest in the House was Texan Ralph Hall with 78 percent.

Overall, the average score for Republicans in the House was 76 percent. Democrats scored 18 percent. In the Senate, Republicans scored an average of 77 percent and Democrats were at 15 percent. In the Senate, Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) scored 5 percent, while his counterpart Minority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.), had a score of 80 percent. In the House, Speaker Hastert scored 100 percent, while Minority Leader Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.) scored 7 percent.

This isn't like golf folks, a higher number is better.

By the way, Kerry had a rating of 5 in 2001 and a lifetime rating of 26.

In the Senate, Ensign (R-Nevada) had the highest rating at 100.


Wow - I was pretty darn close. I was actually giving them slightly too much credit for being even-handed.
 

conjur

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Oh...Mr. Weber, member of the Board of Directors at CAGW is a partner at Clark & Weinstock law firm.

What are some of the practice areas of Clark & Weinstock?

Class action litigation and product safety concerns!



LOL!


Oooo...and what's this??

http://members.shaw.ca/shkawamoto/pr-firm.html
Recently, Qorvis Communications is caught up in the campaign led by US conservatives to implicate prominent Saudis in the financing of al-Qaeda. Along with two other firms, Qorvis is contracted to the Saudi government, and a White House committee is seeking to subpoena these three firms for documents that pertain to a congressional investigation into child abductions. As well, three executive from Qorvis have jumped ship to join Clark and Weinstock.

Interestingly, Mitch Bainwol, Managing Director of Clark and Weinstock, is a former Chief of Staff to the Republican National Committee (1997-1999). One partner of Clark and Weinstock, Ed Kutler, is the former special assistant of House Speaker Gingrich, and was a Microsoft lobbyist from 1995-1997. Another partner at Clark and Weinstock, Vin Weber, is on the committe of a biotech firm, Even another partner Vic Fazio, a former Democrat congressman, sits on several boards including Northrop Grumman Corporation. So they may not be profiting from their partnership, but they are a cohesive firm of diverse political backgrounds making money from firms as diverse as network security companies to political lobbyists for accountants.
 

Riprorin

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This is another story that has received little if any coverage in the mainstream press.

The National Taxpayers Union (NTU) recently released its Congressional ratings for 1999. Unlike most groups which use only a few selected votes to rate legislators, the NTU counts every single vote that significantly affects taxes, spending, or debt.

Votes against spending and taxes are counted as plus votes. No one has ever scored 100 nor are they expected to?even the strongest conservatives vote to spend money for such items as national defense. Thus the NTU assigns each member a letter grade based on the numerical score. Those graded ?A? receive the ?Taxpayer?s Friend Award?. Those receiving an ?F? are placed in the ?Big Spender? category.

The average score of House members was 41%, and of Senators 45%. Republican scores averaged 60% in the House and 74% in the Senate; Democrats averaged only 21% in the House and 9% in the Senate.

Below are results for members who represent all or part of Iredell County:

GRADE SCORE

SENATE

Jesse Helms A 77%
John Edwards F 15%

HOUSE

Cass Ballenger B 59%
Sue Myrick A 69%
Mel Watt F 17%
 

conjur

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Hmm...President of the NTU, John Berthoud is a member of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution (AdTI) is an industry-funded organization which publishes propaganda from major corporations, giving it an air of respectability. They also organize coordinated publicity and letter-writing campaigns. They charge for both services.

http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Alexis_de_Tocqueville_Institution
Projects

Philip Morris
Working closely with Philip Morris, they issued studies and conducted an astroturf campaign arguing the EPA's regulations (including those of cigarette smoke) were scientifically unsound, overly-burdensome, and unnecessary.

And facing a cigarette tax increase as part of the Clinton healthcare plan, they organized an astroturf campaign to misleadingly attack it, charging Morris $60,000 for the work.


Microsoft
Heavily funded by Microsoft [1][2], they have engaged in a number of campaigns to suggest Linux is dangerous, insecure, and illegal.

They published a book claiming Linus Torvalds did not invent Linux. The book was widely discredited and earned them the nickname "the think tank that didn't". (While conceding they did fund the institute, Microsoft refused to comment on whether they specifically funded the book.)


Funding
AdTI is very secretive about their income sources, refusing to divulge any funders, but we do know about some grants they have received.

Between 1988 and 2002, AdTI has received $1,723,900 (unadjusted for inflation) from conservative foundations [3], namely Bradley, Olin, Scaife, the Philip M. McKenna Foundation, and the Claude R. Lambe Foundation (a Koch Family Foundations).

http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=National_Taxpayers_Union
National Taxpayers Union (NTU) is closely related to their "501(c)3" (i.e. non-profit) foundation, the 'National Taxpayers Union Foundation' (NTUF). According to the 990 forms of NTUF, the NTU and NTUF share staff, facilities, web site and board members. Dr. John E. Berthoud is president of both the NTU and the NTUF.

The NTU received from Philip Morris in 1998 a donation of $25,000 ([1], WRO refers to Philip Morris's Washington Relations Office) and one year later $10,000. [2] The Tobacco Institute budgeted for 1999 also a donation to NTU of $10,000. [3]

The National Taxpayers Union made a statement that the government's antitrust case against Microsoft caused state pension funds to lose $38 billion. [4]

Hmmm....big tobacco again shows up as a link.
 

Riprorin

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Edwards' Fiscal Policies Unlikely to Balance Kerry Ticket, Taxpayer Group's Analysis Finds

(Alexandria, VA) --Some say Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry may have selected running mate John Edwards to overcome a "charisma deficit" in his campaign, but how would his choice affect the federal budget deficit? According to an analysis from the non-partisan National Taxpayers Union (NTU), Edwards has earned "F" grades on NTU's comprehensive tax and spending scorecard for each year of his Senate service. And, he has supported legislation this year that would boost the federal budget by $92.1 billion. Among NTU's findings:

For 25 years, NTU has conducted an annual Rating of Congress based on every roll call vote affecting federal taxes, spending, debt, and regulation (typically 100-300 votes in a Congressional session). In 2003 John Edwards posted a 22% "Taxpayer Score" on the NTU Rating, compared to John Kerry's 14%. However, both men turned in scores sufficient (under 25%) to earn "F" grades from NTU.
Edwards' score last year was actually the highest he has ever achieved on NTU's Rating. Between 1999 and 2002, his scores ranged between 12% and 18%, thus earning him an "F" grade from NTU each year he has been in the Senate.
Despite Edwards' being portrayed as a more moderate candidate, he and Kerry have never scored more than 8 percentage points apart on the NTU Rating. In the year 2000, Edwards' score tied that of Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy (which in that year was also one point lower than Kerry's score).
Since 1991, National Taxpayers Union Foundation's BillTally system has assigned a cost to the legislation that each Member of Congress sponsors or cosponsors -- even those bills that never come to the floor for a vote. In the First Session of the 108th Congress, Edwards supported legislation which, if enacted in its entirety, would increase federal spending by $92.1 billion per year. This is roughly half the total cost of John Kerry's legislative agenda ($182.0 billion), but would still be sufficient to increase the estimated budget deficit for FY 2005 by an equivalent of 25%.
Since 1994, National Taxpayers Union Foundation's VoteTally system has tracked the spending at stake in votes cast by each Member of Congress. In 2003, Edwards cast votes whose effect would raise federal expenditures by $381.3 billion per year (or $318.3 billion when "mandatory" baseline spending is excluded).
"The data on John Edwards offers little comfort to taxpayers seeking spending restraint from Washington," said NTU President John Berthoud. "There is scant evidence to suggest his fiscal policies would be more moderate than those offered by the man at the top of the ticket."

NTU is a non-profit, non-partisan citizen group working for lower taxes, smaller government, and more accountability from elected officials at all levels. National Taxpayers Union Foundation is the research and educational arm of NTU. Note: For additional fiscal information on Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates, visit www.ntu.org.
 

conjur

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Berthoud spoke at the Chicago Conservative Conference 2002
Sponsored by these leading conservative organizations:

American Conservative Union

Americans for Tax Reform

Concerned Women for America

Family Taxpayers Network

The Heartland Institute

The Howard Center

Illinois Eagle Forum

Illinois Family Institute

The Leadership Institute

Lincoln Legal Foundation

National Taxpayers Union

Taxpayers Network Inc.

United Republican Fund


Do you not see the inherent bias in their views?



heh...Berthoud has even criticized Warren Buffet:
http://www.nationalreview.com/nrof_comment/comment-berthoud062003.asp
 

Riprorin

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Originally posted by: conjur
Berthoud spoke at the Chicago Conservative Conference 2002
Sponsored by these leading conservative organizations:

American Conservative Union

Americans for Tax Reform

Concerned Women for America

Family Taxpayers Network

The Heartland Institute

The Howard Center

Illinois Eagle Forum

Illinois Family Institute

The Leadership Institute

Lincoln Legal Foundation

National Taxpayers Union

Taxpayers Network Inc.

United Republican Fund

Do you not see the inherent bias in their views?

heh...Berthoud has even criticized Warren Buffet:
http://www.nationalreview.com/nrof_comment/comment-berthoud062003.asp

I'm disappointed, I expected better from you.

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