HEALTH CARE TOWN HALL MEETING

Make plans to attend our Nebraska Taxpayers for Freedom Health Care Town Hall Meeting on Sat. Aug. 29, at 10 AM at Millard Library, 132nd & Westwood Lane, Omaha. We will treat you to a Power Point presentation on the negative impact that ObamaCare would have on Nebraskans. Two speakers from the medical community then will compare the negatives of ObamaCare with positive alternatives from the free market. Everyone attending will receive an issue paper plus contact information for their Capitol Hill delegation in Congress. Please bring friends & neighbors. It is crucial that we save Nebraska and America from socialist health care that has ruined the health care systems in so many other countries and consigned their citizens to medical care that is inefficient, untimely, and deadly. Learn how to lobby your representative and senators....the life you save may be your own or that of a loved one!

TEA PARTY AT OMAHA CITY BUDGET HEARING

It’s Taxpayer Tea Party time again, taxpayers! Mark your calendars on Tue. Aug. 11. At 6:30 PM that evening, we will hold a short demonstration outside the Omaha City-County Bldg. at 1819 Farnam Street, our signs proudly showing that we oppose any new or expanded tax increase in the City of Omaha’s FY 2009-10 budget. The mayor and city council will deliberate and decide on raising our property tax or sales tax or both. They will consider implementing a new garbage fee, occupation tax, and/or an entertainment tax. Even if you do not live within the City of Omaha city limits, you will pay more sales tax if you shop here, more entertainment tax if you go to the movies, bars, or restaurants in Omaha, and pay an occupation tax if you work in Omaha. At the public budget hearing at 7 PM, we will present the city council with our petitions opposing tax increases and testify against them in the budget. We invite taxpayers to attend the hearing and speak or just sit and listen while wearing a taxpayer watchdog tea bag sticker. However, we need YOUR help. We need YOU to help circulate our petitions. You need not be a registered voter to circulate or sign or even live in Omaha. Please call (402) 551-0921 to get a petition today! We are in a recession. People are losing their jobs, savings, and investments! We are Taxed Enough Already.

Nebraska Taxpayers July 4th Tea Party.

July 4th is a very appropriate time for a Taxpayer Tea Party! Our Founding Fathers and their colonial patriot brethren declared our colonies independent from an overtaxing and over-regulating government in 1776. More than 2 centuries later, we citizens again face an overtaxing and over-regulating government. Substitute Pres. Obama and Speaker Nancy Pelosi for King George III and Prime Minister Lord North. Bring friends and neighbors to attend our NE Taxpayers for Freedom Tea Party on Sat. July 4, 11 AM to 3 PM at Walnut Grove Park, 150th & Q Streets (north side) in Omaha. Bring a picnic lunch and cold soft drinks. We will treat you to live patriotic music, singers, a marching band, petitions to oppose the proposed Omaha tax hikes, and speakers. There is a playground for kids and rest room facilities. Drive north through the park to the Sun Dawgs pavilion. Lots of fun for the entire family.

PROPERTY VALUATION TOWN HALL MEETINGS

Once again, property owners in each county in Nebraska face higher property valuations on their residential and commercial properties, even though the recession has caused market value of property to decrease, in some instances substantially. According to state law, county assessors can examine sale prices of similar homes that sold during the years prior to the current recession and value a home based on not so recent sale price. Thus, a home that sold 5 yrs. ago for $250,000 might not sell for more than $215,000 now, but the valuation for a similar nearby home continues at $250,000. Counties are overvaluing homes, because special interest groups like the public education lobby depend on higher valuations to accrue more tax dollars through property tax rates. The long-range solution is to change the state law on valuations, so that they will not spike continually and cause property tax hikes, even if property tax rates remain the same. We invite everyone to attend our Property Valuation Town Hall meetings on Tuesdays, June 16, June 23, and June 30. Come to Millard Library, 132nd & Westwood Lane, in Omaha at 6 PM. You can see a Power Point presentation and receive a hard copy packet, instructing you how to challenge your property valuation increases this year. Please bring your 2008 and 2009 valuation statements and pen and pad. The only way we taxpayers will stop the property valuation and tax spiral is to mobilize and fight the High Taxers and Big Spenders until we overwhelm them. See you at one of these meetings, and bring friends & neighbors!

TAXPAYER TEA PARTY II

Even before 1776, our colonial Forefathers began a mighty struggle to free themselves from oppressive taxation and crippling regulations. Indignation and determination to resist swept colonial America amid burdensome and unfair taxes and regulations imposed by the British Crown.
Our Founding Fathers, led by patriot Samuel Adams, established Committees of Correspondence throughout the colonies. The committees spread rapidly. Their purpose was to communicate swiftly political information from community to community. Then, colonists could gather and work together in many local communities, working simultaneously to fight high taxes and regulations. Riders on horseback, like many Paul Reveres, relayed news and instructions by riding for days and nights through hinterlands to distribute broadsheets, which local citizens posted on public bulletin boards in their communities.
With modern communications, we no longer need to saddle up. We can feed our fax machines, send emails, and use Facebook, Linked-In, and many other sites on the Internet to mobilize taxpayers angry at the high taxes and wasteful spending imposed and promoted by the Obama Administration and Congress.
It is 2009. The struggle begins again! Taxpayers all over Nebraska attended Taxpayer Tea Parties on April 15. We sent a clear message to the President and Congress: “Stop the Taxes! Stop the Spending and Bailouts!”
Make plans now to attend Tea Party II…..Millard Library, 132nd & Westwood Ln, Omaha…..Wed. May 20, 6:30 PM.
· Short slide presentation, with packets, on fiscally conservative alternatives to fight the Obama Budget.
· Short speech by state or local official.
· Sign up on a taxpayer watchdog team to lobby your Capitol Hill delegation to vote NO on the Obama budget.
Meet fellow taxpaying citizens who are angry and disgusted by runaway government fiscal irresponsibility.

FREEDOM IS BREWING IN NEBRASKA

It’s angry taxpayer day in Nebraska! Taxpayers living in the Omaha metropolitan area will gather on Wed. April 15, 6-8 PM. at Millard Library, 132nd & Westwood Lane in Omaha. We will show a Power Point presentation on the Obama Bloated Budget and offer fiscally conservative alternatives. Then, we will show everyone how to lobby and monitor their Capitol Hill delegation to vote NO on this socialist budget. Also, conservative Cong. Lee Terry (2nd District) will give us a pep talk to defeat the presidential budget. Please bring friends & neighbors! Everyone will get an instructional packet and tea bag to take home. Remember, if we do not stand up to defend ourselves against leftwing tyranny, no one is going to come rescue us. The Obama Budget would add more federal debt than that amassed by every previous president. His regulatory policies will put us on the road to serfdom. His administration is intent on seizing and putting under federal control the financial industries, the vehicle manufacturers, and the health care industry. Stop this administration from placing the socialist yoke on us all. Join us at the Nebraska Taxpayers for Freedom Tea Party on April 15! Note that there is another Tea Party in Omaha that day at the Douglas County Courthouse, beginning at 5 P.M.

TAXPAYER TEA PARTY FIGHTS OBAMA BUDGET.

The Socialist Pres. Obama budget would raise federal income taxes on singles earning $200,000 or more annually and on couples earning $250,000 or more annually. However, to pay for all his generous spending on pork barrel projects like $238,000 for Polynesian voyaging, Obama probably will have to raise taxes on everyone earning over $75,000. Forcing utility companies to reduce carbon emissions will raise our consumer energy costs for heating, cooling, etc. Taxes on the gas and oil industry will soar, these costs passed along to consumers. Gas pump prices will spiral. Small businesses will hurt badly, laying off employees instead of expanding, not able to afford to make capital investments. Capital gains tax rates for many will rise from 15% to 20%. Wealthier Americans who invest their capital will see their top income tax rate rise from 35% to 40%, dampening their investment enthusiasm. Retirees now see their investment income disappearing, but Obama wants to tax their investments more. The only Americans to benefit much from the Obama Budget are those who pay no taxes and do not want to work. DON’T BE SHEEPLE; BE ANGRY TAXPAYER PEOPLE! Come and bring friends to our Taxpayer Tea Party to fight the Obama Budget, 6 PM, Wed. March 18, at Millard Library, 132nd & Westwood Ln., Omaha. The Counter-Revolution starts now!

THE WAY THINGS STAY THE SAME.

The beginning of term limits for state senators in our Unicameral Legislature offered many conservatives a sense of euphoria. Many believed that term limits would uproot the entrenched liberal Democrats and Republicans who dominated the various committees and substitute for them an inflow of fiscal conservatives. The election of 2006 disappointed us, because so many new liberals replaced the old ones. It was tough to find good, fiscal conservatives to run for open seats. As usual, the state Republican Party concentrated on running their “machine” candidates and shunned more conservative ones. The fiscal climate in the Unicameral did not improve in 2007 and 2008. Once again, in November of 2008, we campaigned for some good conservative legislative candidates, fighting off not only Socialist Democrat rival candidates but the usual RINOS (Republicans in Name Only) hawked by the GOP Party apparatus. Sad to say, the harvest of incoming state senators provided few Low Taxers/Spenders. Recently, we asked all newly-elected state senators to sign a “Taxpayer Protection Pledge,” promising their respective constituents that they would not raise state taxes barring a declared statewide emergency caused by a natural disaster or other declared calamitous state or national emergency. Not one of these new senators signed it! Garbage out, garbage in! Many state senators from other states have signed an identical pledge. To further insult taxpayers, not one new state senator would agree to introduce a bill to reform structurally the entire property valuation system, to relieve overburdened urban and rural property owners.

Businesses are locating their operations in states with more competitive corporate tax and property tax structures. Their middle management people do not want to live here. Young professionals are leaving the state for states with lower taxes and better salaries. Moving in to take their places are illegal aliens who work for low wages and suck off our generous welfare system, not paying their own way. Nebraska has the highest taxes in every category except one corporate tax category, compared to all adjacent states. Our population ages. Our rural areas become increasingly depopulated. Soon we will become a pariah state for the productive….another People’s Republic of Minnesota. Unless, of course, taxpaying citizens rise off their rears and find solid, conservative candidates to run for state and local offices, then volunteer for and bankroll them.

TAXPAYER CHAMPION WINS ELECTION

Yes, it can be done. So often, I hear from dejected whiners that nobody can do anything to change school board attitudes to include listening to input from beleaguered taxpayers. One of the ways to overcome this obstacle is to run for a school board seat yourself. That is precisely what Jim Enright did, when he ran a 2nd time for a seat on the Omaha Public School Board and won. In District 6, he knocked out a 30+ year incumbent who not only rubber stamped whatever the administration wanted done but also had a bad habit of telling taxpayer watchdogs who spoke at public school board hearings to “Shutup.” Now, taxpayers summarily ignored by OP$ school board members will have a champion on the board, not only to listen to taxpayer suggestions but also to champion our cause with his fellow board members. Jim is a solid fiscal conservative. He overcame huge odds to win his seat, and there certainly will be some resentment from other board members who normally enjoy a clubby fiscal liberal atmosphere at meetings. So, I urge taxpayers to begin attending OP$ board meetings on the first and third Mondays of each month at the Taj Mahal, I mean, TAC Bldg., at 32nd & Cuming Street, at 7:30 PM. Jim Enright will support us taxpayers, so we must support him and his initiatives at board meetings!

HELP LOWER OUR PROPERTY TAXES

Nebraska Taxpayers for Freedom will hold another in its series of Property Tax Town Hall meetings on Wed. Aug. 20, 6:30 PM, at Millard Library at 132nd & Westwood Lane, Omaha. A Power Point presentation will show people how to contact their state senators and lobby them to reform the property valuation and tax systems in Nebraska to give tax relief to its citizens. Please come and bring friends & neighbors, because the only way to lower our property taxes is to convince our state senators to reform the property valuation and tax laws. At this meeting, you can get packets that will show you how to contact and lobby your state senator. Only if property taxpayers diligently lobby before the 2009 Unicameral session starts will we see property tax relief next year. You can meet 2-3 conservative state senators and legislative candidates at this meeting, so please come!