ACLJ, 78 Members of Congress File Brief Against Biden s Tax Cut BanBy Jordan Sekulow16201367400001620136740000
The Attorneys General from 13 individual states have filed a lawsuit against the Biden Administration, challenging the radical Left’s imperious ban on states lowering taxes.
Now the ACLJ has just joined them, filing a critical amicus brief in federal court on behalf of 78 Members of Congress, led by Senators Mike Crapo and Tim Scott and Representatives Jim Banks and Kevin Brady. Our brief supports the states’ challenge to this blatantly unconstitutional tax mandate.
We recently told you that the Schumer-Pelosi-led U.S. Senate and House of Representatives opted to use the budget reconciliation process to approve a partisan sixth stimulus bill. This resulted in a law littered with problems, but one of the worst is a last-minute provision slipped in that functionally prohibits states from lowering state taxes anytime between now and 2024. In other words, throughout Presi
PolitiFact VA: Cline Skips Context with Green New Deal Claim
U.S. Rep. Ben Cline (R-Va.) claimed last month the Green New Deal will cost the average American household about $75,000 each year. (Photo: Tom Fisk)
Speaker: Ben Cline
Setting: Floor speech
Date: April 22, 2021
U.S. Rep. Ben Cline recently put an eye-popping taxpayer price tag on the Green New Deal - a bold but vague climate change-centered plan that has been roundly condemned by Republicans.
“It crushes jobs, costs an average American household almost $700,000 through 2029,” Cline, R-Va., said of the proposal during a brief floor speech on April 22.
Think about it. The average annual household income in 2019, the latest year available, was $68,700. The average household cost of the Green New Deal, according to Cline’s statement, would be about $75,000 a year. Cline is essentially saying every penny of earnings by an average household will be swallowed by the plan.
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This newspaper’s Letters to the Editor are a popular feature both in the published, dead-tree version of The Roanoke Times and the digitized form on Roanoke.com. With the latter, we can count the number of pageviews a particular letter garners.
Niftily, the right-side column on Roanoke.com’s Letters page ranks the five “Most Popular” letters. And if you looked at that this past Friday, or Thursday, or any other day last week, you’ll find that Allen Jefferson’s April 5 humdinger seems to be the best-read letter all month.
That can be chalked up to its amazing headline, âDan Casey is radicalizing Americans.â It came straight from Jeffersonâs punchy opening sentences: âWho is radicalizing Americans? Columnists like Dan Casey.â