Americans for Tax Reform

Well, I'm not...

If the lobbyist is from Americans for Tax Reform or National Taxpayers Union or some organization, its goal is to limit government, then I'm not...

The outcome is the goal here.

And, you know, looking at Florida, legislators receive an annual salary of $30,000.

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And part of the reason the political will is so wrong is because special interest groups, like the AARP, and by the way, on the right, like Americans for Tax Reform, Grover Norquist's organization, just wanna say no. Um, the AARP, if you go back to the 1983 example, in 1983, Democrats and Republicans came together.

They used a commission, by the way, the Greenspan Commission.

They raised the retirement age, they raised the payroll tax rate, they applied, they expanded coverage, they applied benefits to taxation.

We are one justice away from a Supreme Court that will reverse the Heller decision, one of Justice Scalia's seminal decisions that upheld the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.

We are one justice away from a Supreme Court that would undermine the religious liberty of millions of Americans.

And, and the stakes of this election for this year, for the Senate, the Senate needs to stand strong and say, "We're not gonna give up the US Supreme Court for a generation by allowing Barack Obama to make one more liberal appointee." And then for the state of South Carolina, one of the most important judgments for the men and women of South Carolina to make is who on this stage [timer dings] has the background, the principle, the character, the judgment, and the strength of resolve to nominate and confirm principled constitutionalists to the court.

That will be what I will do if I'm elected president.

Well, let me just tell you what's happened a couple years ago.

One of the hardest decisions you'll ever make in Congress is when you are asked by the president to authorize the use of force in a conflict.

Because you are now putting your name on behalf of the people of your state behind a military action where Americans in uniform could lose their life.

So in 2014, Barack Obama said he would not take military action against Assad unless it was authorized by the Senate, beginning on the Committee of Foreign Relations, where I am one of its members.

Good governance means keeping the tools available to respond to a crisis, not throwing them away in advance.

Support for Amendment 1 has come mostly from Americans for Tax Reform and Americans for Prosperity.

Opposition includes Common Good Iowa, the Iowa State Education Association, the Iowa Farmers Union, the League of Women Voters of Iowa, AAUW of Iowa, AFSCME Council 61, the Iowa Federation of Labor AFL-CIO, the Iowa Hunger Coalition, the National Association of Social Workers Iowa Chapter, and Progress Iowa.

That's not a coincidence.

Sure.

I run Americans for Tax Reform.

We're the group that asks all candidates to sign a pledge not to raise taxes, and your governor has signed that and has, has kept it.

Uh, and most of the Republicans in the legislature, and all the Republicans in Congress and the Senate, except Hawley.

Speaker Stump's speech in just a moment following up on Bill Maher, the old hippie liberal sounding the alarm about the, uh, Democratic Socialists of America taking over the former Democratic Party.

Gonna, gonna talk about what do we want in our future, an empire of dirt or a shining city on a hill? And then speaking of DSA policies, I guess this is DSA hour, uh, at least, uh, for the first part of it, Mike Politze, the tax policy director aficionado over there at the Americans for Tax Reform, ATR.

I do some work for ATR here in the Midwest.

Great to have Mike on this afternoon.

And in Missouri, once again, want to remind you of the mantra: No on six, yes on the rest.

No on six, yes on the rest.

When we come back, what is the devil in the details, and it truly is, regarding the DSA's policy platform? Mike Politz, the tax policy director for Americans for Tax Reform, is gonna explain it in all of its gory detail to Chris and I and to all of you.

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Empire of dirt or a shining city on a hill? Empire of dirt or a shining city on a hill? I'm gonna talk about the future of America, and I'll tell you where I got that empire of dirt phrase from, from a famous song.

Um, 5:25, Mike Palitz, who is the state policy director for Americans for Tax Reform.

We often speak with Grover Norquist from ATR, but we've got Mike on today in his place.

A new report from the White House says that DSA...

All right, the Speaker's Thumb speech.

We're gonna talk about, uh, whether we want an empire of dirt or a shining city on a hill.

And then we'll speak with Mike Police from, uh, AFT, Americans for Tax Reform, on a new report on how DSA policies would cost Americans trillions.

Not billions, trillions.