NE
Taxpayers Committees of Correspondence are pressing for state & local spending
restrictions in the 2021 Legislature, e.g., no spending above Midwest CPI
calculation + population growth.
Property taxes will continue to skyrocket, unless senators slow the rate
of profligate spending growth. Lobby
your state senator now. Email netaxpayers@gmail.com for senator
contact info & to join our Committees of Correspondence in your
county.
Taxpayers disgusted from reading, seeing, & listening to liberal media sources disseminating biased news & events upon which to waste our tax $$ should pledge to begin accessing only conservative media sources. Examples: One America News Network, Breitbart News, Washington Times, Epoch, the Daily Wire & KFAB Talk Radio. Stop subscribing to leftist rags like the Omaha Weird-Herald & Lincoln Urinal that slant the news against conservative
Because of overwhelming credible evidence of vote fraud in several states this election, a Biden-Harris Regime would lack legitimacy both internally and abroad. Taxpaying citizens naturally will consider spurious this regime’s legislative agenda, all undoubtedly extremely harmful to those who pay taxes. Therefore, taxpayers rightly have a civic and constitutional duty to not accept illegitimate election results & actively challenge and oppose each of this regime’s initiatives. Email netaxpayers@gmail.com to join the NE Taxpayers President Watch Project.
The Omaha Public School District suffers millions in pension indebtedness, huge bonded indebtedness, and cost overruns in its building projects. Yet, an OP$ board majority rejected a $630,000 bid for the old Yates School building, its valuation set at up to $737,000, for a retiree facility. The board instead voted for a $100,000 bid from a group that will allow the Refugee Empowerment Center, which services unvetted aliens, to use the premises. The board apparently cares more for aliens than retired citizens. Only board member Lou Ann Goding voted for taxpayers. Email netaxpayers@gmail.com to join the NE Taxpayers Education Watch Project.
The Trump campaign rightfully is challenging obvious and premeditated vote fraud in several states as ballots continue to be counted. President Trump may well win re-election, if the federal court system rules in his favor or the U.S. Supreme Court rules favorably on his challenges. Email or call your representative and Sen. Fischer’s local office to support the Trump legal challenges. Sen. Sasse already has welcomed Biden. A Biden-Harris Regime undoubtedly will repeal every Trump tax cut given individuals & businesses. Email netaxpayers@gmail.com for congressional contact information.
If Biden and Comrade Kamala win this election, much credit goes to ABC (All ‘Bout Clinton), CBS (Clinton B.S.), NBC (Nothing But Clinton), & CNN (Clinton News Network). These propaganda arms of the Socialist Democrat Party daily indoctrinate and fool the American Sheeple into voting for leftists and persuade citizens to despise President Trump. Under a Biden-Harris Regime, conservative taxpayers will be plundered mercilessly. Email netaxpayers@gmail.com to join our NE Taxpayers President Watch Project.
An increasing percentage of young people are voting Socialist Democrat. Much of this trend caused by leftist public school teachers indoctrinating our boys & girls at an early age to despise capitalism and the precepts of our Constitution bestowed upon us by our Founding Fathers. The remedy: legislation to allow school choice, so that parents who now pay about 60% of their property taxes in NE to public education can send their kids to private, parochial, & charter schools, & use vouchers, thus avoiding leftist indoctrination. Let’s find a NE state senator to introduce a bill in Jan. Email netaxpayers@gmail.com to join our NE Taxpayers Education Watch Project.
It is becoming increasingly difficult for “us” taxpaying conservatives and our candidates to win elections. Simply stated, there are increasingly more of “them” than “us.” “Them” are freeloading individuals who suck off the welfare system and get “free stuff.” “Them” includes the explosive growth in the population of legal/illegal aliens coming from nations with no history of representative government and institutions like ours. They do not share our belief in our constitutional system and vote Socialist Democrat. Demographically, they will eventually overwhelm “us” at the polls. Email netaxpayers@gmail.com to join our NE Taxpayers Project Immigration.
Nebraska Taxpayers for Freedom members waved signs at 126th & Pacific Streets this morning for Don Bacon. Got lots of honks, waves, & thumbs up, more than our sign waving has gotten at any other election. Good sign that Cong. Bacon will win re-election and stop Comrade Kara from voting the socialist line in D.C.
Socialist Democrats in the Eastman congressional campaign charged with ballot harvesting, picking up ballots from other individuals to deposit. There is no guarantee that harvested ballots will be deposited and could be altered. Ballot harvesters often take advantage of the mentally challenged and those residing in elder care facilities. Voting is a sacred constitutional right and should be rigorously protected. Urge your state senator to criminalize ballot harvesting.
Leftwing Heartland Workers Center, supposedly nonprofit, is distributing candidate voting information in South and North Omaha, probably intended to defeat Rep. Don Bacon. The center targets demographic groups leaning Socialist Democrat. Because it focuses on precincts with many immigrants, a possibility that it will help illegal aliens vote. Amazingly, the City of Omaha budget has funded this center. We must find a state senator to introduce a bill to prohibit nonprofits from engaging in partisan political activities anathema to taxpayers.
Dist. 31 taxpayers have suffered for 8 years from State Sen. Rick Kolowski voting the leftist teachers’ union line at the Legislature. Taxpayers now have the opportunity to vote for Rich Pahls, a former state senator and city councilman, someone who actually will sit down with you and listen to your suggestions, complaints, etc. Pahls as a council member has championed taxpayers with his ideas for garbage collection, infrastructure, etc. His opponent is a Kolowski clone, an active teachers’ union member who will block tax relief.
Double good riddance to Clare Duda! RINO Douglas County Commissioner Duda took a parting shot at taxpayers by endorsing Socialist Democrat Jo Giles instead of conservative Republican Mike Friend as his successor. Friend crushed Duda in the primary, mainly owing to Duda enriching himself with huge salary votes and tax hike votes. Friend, a fiscal conservative and champion of taxpayers while a state senator, will be a valuable ally to county taxpayers in budgetary matters coming before the board. Our NE Taxpayers for Freedom group solidly supports him & has provided volunteers.
Although the contract stipulated only an annual salary increase matching the CPI for the Papio NRD Gen. Manager, the following 8 NRD Board members generously voted him a 6% hike, about $8,532: Begley, Bradley, Conley, Japp, McCormick, Sopinski, Tesar, & Thompson. Voting against this outrageous increase and with taxpayers were Board members Gruenewald & Wiese. Bradley & Tesar face re-election Nov. 3. Don’t vote for them.
The Red China economic recovery from COVID-19 sees consumers flooding shopping malls and car dealerships. Its economic growth has grown by 4.9% over 2019. Its factories are booming, production rising by 5.8%, thanks to orders for face masks & other medical supplies desperately needed in Europe & North America. Chinese exporters are grabbing markets from U.S. companies. Meanwhile, the U.S. economy has shrunk by 4.3%. Anyone who still believes that this pandemic was an accident is a total fool! The Chicoms are our #1 enemy.
Too often conservative taxpayers pay little attention to conservative candidates running for lesser offices, e.g., natural resource district (NRD) boards, community college boards. These boards levy property taxes, so it is crucial that we elect/re-elect fiscally conservative individuals. NE Taxpayers for Freedom highly recommends a vote for Christian Mirch for Dist. 3 NRD. He is an accomplished professional with a sterling background in law and law enforcement. His legal acumen will serve him well to curtail reckless NRD spending on unnecessary dams that mostly benefit developers. Email mail.com for our NTF Voting Guide.
Joe
Biden would raise income taxes on those with incomes over $400,000, severely
curtailing monies invested in our economy.
He would raise all individual and corporate income, capital gains, &
payroll taxes. The proposal imposes a
12.45% Social Security payroll tax on additional income. His tax plan would repeal the 2017 Trump tax
reductions. The estate tax exemption
would drop by about 50%. The Tax
Foundation declares his plan would reduce our gross domestic product. Protect your savings & income! Vote Trump!
The Omaha City Council will vote Tue. on a new recycling contract. Recycling costs are rising sharply, because most overseas countries now refuse to accept recyclables, fearing contamination. Now is the time for Mayor Stothert & council members to realize that new technology is bringing almost pollution-free incinerators online in communities worldwide. No more recyclables to the landfill or recycling dumps. Incinerators will burn all garbage & yard waste, producing energy to provide power to thousands of Omaha homes & businesses. Lobby your city council member today to vote for only a short recycling contract! Email netaxpayers@gmail.com to join our NTF City Watch Proj
“Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
who’s the fairest of them all?” This
quote was from the Witch in Snow White, but it also describes Sen. Ben Sasse,
who apparently believes he is the fairest of all by trashing Pres. Trump. Sasse’s overflowing vanity only impedes Trump
re-election chances. Fighting between conservative
officeholders does not help the conservative cause. Hopefully, other conservative senators will take
Sen. Sasse aside and counsel him to discontinue his diatribes against Pres.
Trump.
During this election season, the liberal media has redoubled its campaign to label conservative groups & candidates as “far right,” “extremists,” or even “fascists.” This media conveniently labels socialist & communist groups and candidates as “progressives” or “moderates.” The media intention is to sway voters. Conservatives can return the favor by accurately calling lib media candidates & their supporting groups “Socialist Democrats,” “socialists,” “communist-oriented,” or RINOS (Republican in name only). Email netaxpayers@gmail.com for our taxpayer voting guide.
Before you criticize our NE
Taxpayers for Freedom group for wrongly labeling a candidate conservative or
liberal, examine the voting records of these candidates, as we do. We evaluate candidates & office holders
based on their voting records and contributors, not on what they disseminate in
their campaign literature or in their TV or radio commercials. Yes, politicians do lie! The candidates NTF supports have fiscally
conservative voting records. Email netaxpayers@gmail.com for our Voting
Guide.
RINOS do not deserve re-election. One blatant example is Allen Hager, running for re-election to the Learning Community, a bureaucratic nightmare imposed on taxpayers by the Legislature. The LC flagrantly wastes our property tax & other tax $$ and provides little academic improvement for poor kids. It does not bar services to illegal aliens. The LC rightly deserves elimination as a taxing authority . Hager regularly votes along with the rest of the pack to continue reckless spending, e.g. to approve a socio-economic diversity plan for the FY 2018-2019 school year. He does not deserve taxpayer
The trickle of parents pulling their children from OPS schools has reached a tidal wave, as 1,400 OP$ students have fled the district. The reasons are simple. Incompetent administrators scheduling students on-line part of a week and in class other days. No sports season. Union teachers more intent on radicalizing their students instead of teaching them about American Exceptionalism. Incomprehensible Common Core curriculum that students, teachers, & parents cannot understand. And OP$ wants state taxpayers to assume responsibility for its grossly underfunded pension system. Email netaxpayers@gmail.com to join our NE Taxpayers Education Watch Project.
State Sen. Carol Blood, running for re-election, is no friend to taxpayers. She voted to raise filing fees over 100% for taxpayers challenging their higher property valuations and to force cities like Bellevue to establish dense, government-subsidized housing in single family residential neighborhoods, which would destroy property values. Blood also voted to make it more difficult to terminate welfare benefits and voted to extend maximum Medicaid expansion. Her opponent, Rick Holdcroft, is a fiscal conservative.
One of the most vigorous opponents
of real property tax relief is the NSEA teachers union. It has pumped a $15,280 contribution into the
Tim Royers Dist. 31 legislative race.
Royers is the head of the Millard teachers union. In addition to opposing the death penalty
& being pro-abortion, in 1 of his essays he argues that public school curricula
should abandon the traditional view of American exceptionalism, saying it is
difficult to defend. Such teaching I believe
results in the radicalization of students, our children, molding them into the
rioters and Flag-burners we now see on our streets. Royers’ opponent is moderate Republican Rich
Pahls.
Sen. Bruce Bostelman has served taxpayers well in Dist. 23. He voted for the property tax relief bill, tax relief for those with military pensions, to protect the rights of gun owners, and against raising the filing fee over 100% for property valuation challenges. Volunteer now for his re-election campaign & email netaxpayers@gmail.c
State Sen. Anna Wishart is poison for NE taxpayers. She voted to raise filing fees for property valuation challenges by over 200%. She voted to allow creation of a new metro transit authority with a maximum property tax levy. Wishart also voted to tax Internet sales. And she regularly votes to expand and extend welfare programs. A taxpaying Lincoln voter should not WISH for the re-election of Anna Wishart. Her opponent, Brenda Bickford, is a solid fiscal conservative
Some taxpayers seem to believe that attending supportive speaking engagements and luncheons or writing a check for a candidate fulfills their responsibility to help fiscally conservative candidates & incumbents win elections/re-elections. Not so. Candidates win based on grunt work…putting up yard signs, distributing fliers door to door, calling prospective voters on the phone (who may hang up on you), & standing out in the cold on Election Day handing out candidate poll cards. Do these things now to help your conservative candidate win! Email netaxpayers@gmail.com for our Nebraska Taxpayers Voting Guide.😃
The Douglas County Board sorely needs the infusion of
conservative commissioners. Tim Lonergan
is one fiscal conservative who taxpayers should support and offer volunteer
assistance to put up yard signs & distribute fliers. Tim is a successful small businessman. He pledges to oppose all property tax
increases not approved by popular vote and oppose pay hikes for commissioners,
who have increased their salaries by 50% in recent years. He also has a great plan to utilize new
technology to streamline county services.
See more at www.votelonergan.com.
Congressional candidate Kate
Bolz is bad for Nebraska taxpayers. As a
state senator, she voted to raise the filing fees to challenge property
valuation increases, to allow government land banks to compete with private
developers, make it more difficult to expel violent public school students,
& cancel traditional Columbus Day. NE
taxpayers do not need a Bolz Weevil in Congress to vote with Nancy Pelosi. Email netaxpayers@gmail.com
for our conservative voting guide.
Dodge County residents now suffer under the socialist voting
record of State Sen. Lynne Walz. One of
her bills makes it easier to remain on the welfare wagon. Another restricts authorities and lets violent
“inmates run the asylum” at youth detention facilities. Her opponent is Dave Rogers, a super
intelligent independent businessman who has a keen recognition of how we must
achieve comprehensive tax, spending, and regulation reform in the
Legislature. If you value your
properties, savings, and businesses in Dodge County, Dave Rogers needs your
help. Email netaxpayers@gmail.com for our NE
Taxpayers Voting Guide.
President Trump unveiled his
America First Healthcare Plan. Patients will be in charge of their care,
not bureaucrats at an indifferent Federal agency. When President Trump took
office, over half of U.S. counties offered plans from only a
single insurance provider on the individual market. As of next month, more than
90% of American counties will have multiple options to choose from. For
years, patients have been shocked to receive unexpected bills for thousands of
dollars in medical services they never agreed to. The Trump plan bans this unfair
practice and ends surprise medical billing. With new ways for Medicare to
pay providers, Americans will have access to doctors they trust whenever needed.
The President is also ensuring that politicians don’t block much-needed
research and innovation, ensuring Americans access to the best health care in
the world. Email netaxpayers@gmail.com to join NE
Taxpayers for Trump!
Early voting will begin soon,
& voters must decide for whom to vote.
If you are a taxpaying conservative, you do not want to vote for a Socialist
Dem or a RINO. One best way to check on who
supports a candidate is to access the state Accountability & Disclosure
Comm. website at https://nadc.nebraska.gov. Click on View Campaign Filings, click on the
SEARCH tab, & type in the name of the candidate or candidate committee you
wish to access. If a candidate, for
example, has accepted a contribution from the state teachers’ union, you know
that candidate is not a fiscal conservative.
Email netaxpayers@gmail.com
for our voter guide.
The real problem in the Legislature is not extreme partisanship between Republicans and Socialist Democrats. The real problem is that RINO (Republicans in Name Only) senators like John McCollister vote with the socialists and support their legislation. This sorry situation precludes property tax relief. Bringing solid tax relief to the Unicameral will require the GOP establishment to tell the RINOS to get lost & find fiscal conservative candidates to run in their districts. Still waiting.
90 days into the Harris-Biden
Regime: The Regime announced the immediate levying of a 5% tax on all paychecks
and Social Security payments in order to subsidize “free” Socialist Health Care
for All. No more insurance co-pays or
premiums! There will be a bit of medical
care rationing, however. If you are over
65 and suffer from a debilitating condition like heart disease, cancer, or
COPD, Kamala Kare will guarantee that you are only entitled to pain pills and a
Biden Bear to ease your pain and discomfort.
Vote conservative on Nov. 3!
Today is Constitution Day. NE Taxpayers for Freedom hopes every NE citizen
takes a few minutes to read our sacred Constitution bestowed upon us by our
Founding Fathers. These men (and women
who didn’t get credit), having sacrificed greatly in wartime, granted us a
system of laws & government never then practiced anywhere in the
world. It is the responsibility of posterity
to protect this gift. In this election,
we face an unprecedented assault on our Constitution by socialists/communists
in the Democrat Party. As of this date,
we still have the opportunity to use our constitutional right of voting to
elect & re-elect patriotic, conservative candidates on Nov. 3. Do not allow the Socialist Democrats to destroy
our constitutional heritage. And a
special thanks to State Sen. Julie Slama for sponsoring LB 399, a bill to encourage
NE public school students to study our Constitution.
The Omaha Weird-Herald
whined about partisanship in the Legislature preventing that body from making substantive
decisions on key issues. The problem is
not partisanship; it is ideological differences. There are a number of senators who seriously
want tax relief for Nebraskans. There
also are Socialist Democrats and RINOS who don’t want tax relief but more
spending on welfare programs and restraints on law enforcement. On Nov. 3, Nebraskans can break this deadlock
by voting for fiscally conservative candidates and incumbents. Volunteer for their campaigns now. Only then can we gain a legislative majority
to pass real property tax relief and reform.
Email netaxpayers@gmail.com
to join the effort!
Your Douglas-Sarpy Co. tax $$
at work: The Learning Community (LC) spent $19,320.40 in July & August for
baby diapers and formula. The objective
of the LC is to improve academic achievement for poor & minority children,
not provide babysitting services. The LC
is an out of control bureaucracy, its board members continually seeking to
expand its services outside its original objectives, wasting our tax $$ in
wanton disregard for fiscal control. Despite
its profligate spending, no creditable improvement in academic achievement for
its hapless students. Contact your state
senator to eliminate the LC before it expands outstate. Email netaxpayers@gmail.com to join our NTF
Education Watch Project.
Taxpayers lost a hero with
the passing of Chuck Sigerson. While on
the Omaha City Council, Chuck always spoke for and voted for city property
taxpayers, and he spoke both sincerely and forcefully. When he occasionally disagreed with our taxpayer
group, he carefully explained his reasoning.
It was unfortunate that his health precluded him from advancing up the
political ladder to higher office, where he certainly would have similarly
championed the taxpayer cause. Taxpayers
should be grateful that he helped us as much as he did, and we should remember
his public service always.
Riots, burning, looting, assaults, & other mayhem continues in many American cities. Almost ignored in this tumult is the fact that local taxpayers must pay to repair all the damage to civic infrastructure. Looted and vandalized businesses, disgusted with the ongoing disorder, are fleeing to more peaceful localities, depriving their former locales of business tax revenue. These inflamed metropolises will only add to the number of decaying and crime-ridden cities already abandoned by their productive populations. We will now have to listen to their Socialist Democrat civic leaders beg for state and federal aid to pay their bills. The remedy: Vote Trump in 2020.
Only for budget-cutting
reasons has UN-L closed its Confucius Institute, a Red Chinese front widely
acknowledged for spying, stealing commercial secrets, & otherwise engaging
in subversion on college campuses. UN-L
is one of the last U.S. campuses to expel this Institute. Unfortunately, the UN-L chancellor supports
other partnerships with the communist regime.
Now, irate taxpayers must lobby their university regents to expel the
UN-O Confucius Institute, whose staff salaries NE taxpayers help pay. All 8 regents have refused to expel Confucius
Institutes from NE. Share your opinions
with them as follows: Tim Clare tclare@nebraska.edu, Howard Hawks hhawks@nebraska.edu, Jim Pillen jpillen@nebraska.edu, Elizabeth O’Connor
eoconnor@nebraska.edu, Robert
Schafer rschafer@nebraska.edu, Paul
Kenney pkenney@nebraska.edu, Bob Phares
bphares@nebraska.edu, and Barbara
Weitz bweitz@nebraska.edu.
So many taxpayers are not
registered to vote. The only way to
lower taxes in our state right now is to elect candidates and return incumbents
who pledge to reform our tax system.
Every vote counts. Contact every
one of your conservative taxpayer friends, relatives, & neighbors and confirm
that they are registered voters. Citizens
who do not register to vote should not complain about their tax burden. And be sure to volunteer for at least 1
conservative candidate in your area.
In a guest WH editorial this
morning, Rick Galusha heaped praise on Douglas Co. Commissioner Clare Duda as
eminently respectful. As a taxpayer who
frequently speaks at county board meetings, I have found Duda to be seriously
disrespectful, condescending, and downright insulting to taxpayers who take
time from their busy lives to testify before the county board on tax
issues. Duda voted to raise his salary
over 50% in only a few years, raised our property taxes regularly, &
recently voted to spend millions of CARES Act $$ on entertainment venues instead
of aiding first responders & medical personnel. He richly deserved his beating in the May
primary, and good riddance to him & his horrid hyena laugh.
Local government subdivisions
around the state are making increased noises about having to raise their property
taxes, if they do not receive enough CARES Act money to pay for unanticipated
expenses caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
There is only a finite amount of $$ available from the CARES Act. This local government threat merely provides
another excuse for cities, towns, counties, school districts, NRDs, etc. to hike
our property taxes during a time when citizens are suffering sometimes catastrophic
financial pressure from the economic downtown.
Learn how to be a taxpayer watchdog.
Email netaxpayers@gmail.com.
More and more seasoned citizens
are leaving NE for other states that have lower overall taxes. Professional people also are seeking
employment in states where they can save more of their earnings. Their disposable income leaves with
them. Our legislature, unfortunately,
will never comprehensively reform our taxation system, unless we elect additional
fiscally conservative candidates for Legislature on Nov. 3. Don’t just whine on social media. Volunteer to elect or re-elect one of these
candidates. Email netaxpayers@gmail.com for our voting
guide.
Douglas County Commissioners
have squandered addition CARES Act federal tax dollars. $5 million bestowed upon the Henry Doorly Zoo
to fund cameras, sensors, air conditioning units, and marketing to help cover
$29 million in lost revenue. Many
businesses have lost revenue. This money
should go to first responders in the public & private sectors, health care
employees, & coronavirus victims. Shame
on county commissioners. This pandemic
continues. COVID-19 victims and those
who risk their health & lives daily deserve financial aid. Email netaxpayers@gmail.com
to join our NTF County Watch Project.
I oftentimes hear Republicans
say that, when voting, they vote the straight Republican ballot from top to
bottom. Upon questioning, they readily
admit that they really don’t know if all these candidates are fiscal
conservatives on tax & spending issues.
Unfortunately, a few GOP candidates invariably are RINOs (Republicans in
Name Only), those who do not adhere to fiscally conservative policies, or
incumbents who regularly vote with Socialist Democrats. Do yourself & other taxpayers a favor before
voting. Check out voting records,
references, & political backgrounds of GOP candidates. Don’t feed the RINOS with your vote. Email netaxpayers@gmail.com for our 2020
General Election Voters Guide.
Many taxpaying conservatives
appear to post regularly on social media about all the atrocious mayhem caused
by the Radical Left. This bullying,
looting, & mayhem is common knowledge.
What taxpaying conservatives must do is stop cringing & begin
volunteering to help taxpayer-friendly candidates distribute flyers door to
door, place yard signs, call from phone banks, write editorials, &
publicize these candidates on social media.
In the Omaha metro area, Socialist Democrat candidate yard signs are
springing up like mushrooms, their flyers piling up on doorsteps, their phone
calls & social media presence extensive.
Taxpayers will not win on Nov. 3 by complaining; we can win only by
actively helping conservative candidates.
Email netaxpayers@gmail.com
for details.
The Nov. election will decide
if high-tax Socialist Democrats or a conservative presidential administration
will lead the country. In this close
election, every taxpayer vote will count.
Therefore, it is imperative that every taxpayer vote safely, by either
voting on election day in person or dropping a ballot at the election
commissioner/county clerk office or at one of their drop boxes. Mailing in your ballot early by the postal
service appears risky, as the postal union has endorsed Gropey Joe Biden. The USPS “lost” or “misplaced” thousands of
mailed-in ballots in the 2020 primary. Don’t
waste your vote for convenience. And don’t
forget to volunteer for conservative candidates.
So State Sen. John
McCollister & former State Sen. Al Davis endorsed Gropey Joe Biden for
President. No surprise. Biden pledges to eradicate the needed tax
relief given us by President Trump. McCollister
rarely votes for taxpayer relief in the Legislature. High Tax Al Davis lost his re-election race
to a taxpayer champion, Tom Brewer. What
I term apostate Republicans McCollister & Davis no doubt will end their
political careers in deserved scorned obscurity, just like Benedict Arnold, a
character thoroughly reviled in our political history.
Several months ago, our NE
Taxpayers for Freedom group respectfully asked all 8 NE University regents to vote
to expel the Confucius Institutes, partially subsidized with state taxes, from
the UN-L & UN-O campuses. This request following 2 Senate investigative committees,
other investigative sources, & the FBI warning that this Institute was engaging
in subversion and espionage on U.S. campuses.
Many other university systems already have expelled this Institute. However, not one NE University regent
responded to our request. With pressure
building nationwide to expel the Institutes, time for taxpayers to again lobby
Regents Tim Clare, Howard Hawks, Jim Pillen, Elizabeth O’Connor, Robert Schafer,
Paul Kenney, Bob Phares, and Barbara Weitz at https://nebraska.edu/regents/contact-the-regents.
Now that Gov. Ricketts has
signed the property tax relief bill into law, leftist state senators desperately
are trying to find 33 senators to sign onto an effort to call a special
legislative session. Their purpose is to
repeal the property tax relief law and spend additional tax $$ on welfare
benefits for those considered inconvenienced by the COVID-19 pandemic. These leftist senators appear more concerned for
the benefit beggars than for first responders like law officers, firefighters,
paramedics, & medical and nursing home personnel who daily risk the health
and lives of themselves & their families to fight this pandemic & help
its victims. Lobby your senator to NOT
support a special session. Email netaxpayers@gmail.com for senator
contact information.
Relieved at having pushed through a property tax bill offering us a bit of tax relief, taxpayers now must contend with liberal senators & their allies who want a special legislative session. Its purpose? To repeal the tax relief bill and override gubernatorial vetoes of the snake braids bill and early release for convicts bill. The libs also want to spend more of our tax $$ on welfare benefits for those supposedly inconvenienced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Contact your state senator TODAY to urge the Governor to NOT call a special session. Email netaxpayers@gmail.com for state senator contact information.
Some of the loudest opponents
of the LB 1107 property tax relief bill are union teachers in the Omaha Public
School District. Sounding just as loud
is the tidal wave noise we hear from OPS parents opting out their children into
neighboring school districts. The main
reasons I hear for this mass exodus are poor instruction and poor curriculum in
OPS. Perhaps the OPS teachers who
criticize the property tax relief for their student’s parents instead should
concentrate on improving their instructional skills and seeking improved
curricula in their classrooms. Email netaxpayers@gmail.com
to join our NTF Education Watch Project.
The recently-passed property
tax relief bill for the 1st year will offer taxpayers only a 6% refundable
state tax credit on property taxes paid ONLY to their public school
district. But the greedy NE State
Education Association rumored to either begin a petition campaign or introduce
a legislative bill to REPEAL this small property tax credit. The teachers’ union insatiable greed knows no
bounds. It appears to want to retain
high property taxes plus grab huge helpings of state revenue for its inflated
salaries & generous benefits. Help
elect legislative candidates this fall who decline to accept tantalizing
teacher union contributions.
Americans for Tax Reform today released a coalition letter signed by 80 free market, conservative, and libertarian groups and activists in opposition to President Donald Trump’s recent “Most Favored Nation” executive order.
If implemented, the order would impose an “International Pricing Index” on Medicare Part B drugs, tying American drug prices to the prices in foreign countries with government-run healthcare systems.
President Trump has repeatedly stood strong against the left’s calls for socialized medicine, even promising in the 2020 State of the Union Address that “we will never let socialism destroy American healthcare.”
Unfortunately, an MFN policy would adopt these same socialist healthcare policies and threaten American medical innovation. As the letter notes:
Adopting these price controls will slow medical innovation, threaten American jobs, and undermine criticism of single-payer systems. In addition, a United States embrace of price controls will make it immeasurably more difficult to get foreign countries to pay their own way in the development of new medicines.
An MFN policy would also threaten our COVID-19 response and exacerbate foreign freeloading off of American innovation. As the letter notes:
The U.S. is the best in the world when it comes to developing innovative, lifesaving and life preserving medicines. Because of this, the U.S. is leading the way when it comes to developing COVID-19 vaccines, with several promising candidates entering the final stages of testing and clinical trials.
In contrast, foreign countries have been free riding off this American medical innovation for decades through crushing price controls and other market-distorting government rules and regulations.
The MFN order would also harm our economy through a decrease in research and development. Medical innovation directly or indirectly supports 4 million jobs and $1.1 trillion in total economic impact, which will be threatened by importing price controls from foreign countries.
Finally, the letter urges President Trump to apply the same successful, deregulatory, market-based approach that he has championed in other policy areas to health care:
As President, you have championed vital changes in tax and regulatory policies that have allowed free market innovation to flourish. We believe a market-based approach like those that your administration has consistently supported in other policy areas will lead to economic growth and promising new treatments, but adopting price controls through the MFN plan would undermine rather than build on those successes.
The Papio-Mo. River NRD amasses tax dollars by appropriating megabucks for projects it does not begin, then carries over the same appropriations the next fiscal year. This NRD also habitually overfunds projects, we think intentionally, but spends only a much lesser amount of tax revenue on these projects. It’s called Bloating the Budget, a convenient scheme among property taxing entities. Instead, this NRD board should lower our tax levy and stop hoarding our tax $$ for unneeded dams. Lobby your NRD board members to cut the tax rate and email netaxpayers@gmail.com to join our NE Taxpayers NRD Watch Project.
Omaha Councilman Chris Jerram joins rioters, vandals, and looters in seeking to amend the city budget by defunding the police dept. by $2 million. He wants $500,000 for Heartland Workforce Solutions, which duplicates efforts of the state labor dept., and $1.5 million for community mental health & welfare services. Criminals previously “got religion” to excuse their crimes. Now they use mental health excuses. The cuts would reduce the number of police officers & curtail crime prevention efforts. The ongoing civil unrest that is frightening the citizenry requires a strong police presence with public support. Lobby your city council member to vote NO on this amendment. Email netaxpayers@gmail.com for council member contact information and to join our NE Taxpayers City Watch Project.
