Posted on 09/24/2013 12:03:42 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
The national Republican Party has a serious brand problem. Too many Establishment Elephants are too often Diet Democrats - taking positions just slightly less Large Government than the Donkey Party. That is - when they’re not agreeing with them in totality.
Which disheartens and drives away American grassroots Conservatives - the lifeblood of any hope for Republicans in any election.
And it drives average Americans crazy, because they see too much damage being done by DC - with two Parties too often agreeing on the obviously wrong solution.
Democrats are for amnesty for the 12-20 million illegal aliens currently in the United States. So are many Republicans. Conservatives are against amnesty. Americans also overwhelmingly oppose it.
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So it should come as no surprise that the Establishment Party is looking to pass a bill that would allow the 9,600+ different state and local governments to tax the Internet.
Behold the Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA).
Current law dictates that a state can only require a business to collect its sales tax if it is physically present within its boundaries….
(The MFA) would countenance an enormous expansion in state tax collection authority by wiping away the “physical presence standard,” a baseline protection that shields taxpayers from harassment by out of state collectors….
Dismantling this protection for remote retail sales would create a very slippery slope for states to attempt collection of businesses.....
As per usual, when someone in DC says “fairness” - grab your wallet, because they are about to do so. The MFA is a gi-normous, omni-directional, multitudinous-government tax and power grab - and a colossal compliance headache for just about every U.S. business.
It on May 6 passed the Senate - with twenty-one Republican votes. And now, even more inexplicably, House Republicans are taking the lead on ramming it through.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
GOP committing suicide by stupidity...
And the RNC wants donations... still.
Rather amazing...
A conservative political party couldn’t start soon enough.
Exactly they would rather bend over and let the Democrats steam roll over them than fight. If they can’t fight against ODumbocare then they can fight for nothing.
Now if these Pubbies are Rhinos they won’t bother to fight. I’m sick of the Republicans. They lost me. I will only support a candidate that stands for US and the US Constitution. So far Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz are all the way for me.
Is there a gang of eight or fourteen or some such b/s. Probably the usual treasonous suspects.
We need a new party.
Ditto.
Like in Norway. The Norwegian rightist party has been infested with antisemitic/pro-muslim parasites like my sister, and by now there’s nothing to distiguish them from Labour if you look behind the facade.
To tax is to control. To control is to stunt its growth.
And that, dear FR readers, is the intent.
And guess who the big re-election donors to Republicans are? Hint: It’s not the little web-based businesses that the huge brick-and-mortar companies would like to eliminate as competition.
Taxation without representation. Isn’t that a primary reason for the American Revolution? It’s bad enough Republicans want to ram through another new tax. But one for the schools; straight from the liberal playbook. Government is not administering schools the way we would like, and they forever waste the funding while brainwashing our kids and not giving them useful education. That’s the taxation without representation. We need a revolution again.
It’s led by the GOP senator from Wyoming, Mike Enzi.
Like the difference between Post and General Mills.
Flakes are flakes...
Republicans used to oppose new tax burdens
but it appears that Obama has successfully “transformed” them?
As long as Ted Cruz is on the Senate Floor, folks should be supporting him by PHONING/FAXING Mitch McConnell!!!!
“The power to tax is the power to destroy.”
Bigger government- GOP style.
Sucks just as bad as when the Dems do it. More so, because you EXPECT crap like this from the Socialists in the DNC.
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I have been disgusted with Republicans for a long time. Likewise, I will NEVER be a Democrat. I only support individual Republicans who represent my views (conservative) and not the national or local Republican Party. I am waiting to see how much “Republican” support Senator Cruz will get from Republicans in his fight to defund Obamacare. We will need names to reward / eliminate those RINOs who oppose Cruz.
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