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USA Next Chair Charlie Jarvis has sent an open letter to AARP members. It concerns the AARP’s failure to oppose taxes on Social Security benefits. The letter reads as follows: “Dear AARP Members, Sometimes the things you DON’T do hurt people more than the things you do. …

This is an open letter to AARP members from Charles Jarvis, Chairman and Chief Executive of USA Next. Dear AARP Members, April 15 – exactly one month from today – is the deadline for all hardworking Americans to file their tax returns. Whether or not you’ve already filed your tax return, this letter contains important facts you should know UNLESS: • You do not pay enough in taxes and believe the government should collect more from you. • You do not care that you’re paying taxes on your Social Security benefits.

Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON USA Next engineered the recent controversial ad that branded AARP pro-gay marriage and included a photograph of two men kissing. What else are you planning? In a few weeks, there will be ads that very specifically and aggressively brand AARP for what they are, the planet's largest liberal lobbying organization. When they are honest about that, we will take a large number of their members away.

Exaggerations and sometimes outright lies historically have been part of every politically divisive issue. President Bush's plan for partial Social Security privatization is a dream for these two giant professional propagandists: •AARP, which takes a liberal approach to government handouts to older folks. It is financed mostly by its 35 million members ages 50 and older. •USA Next, a much smaller but well-heeled conservative group. It is funded mostly by younger business and industry leaders. This week, as Bush started a blitz to sell his plan, both groups geared up and faced off in print and on the air. USA...

USA Next's Chairman, Charlie Jarvis, will be on Power Lunch at 12:45 P.M. (Eastern Time) and on Your World with Neil Cavuto at 4:30 P.M. (Eastern Time) Today. He will continue to champion free market solutions to Social Security -- and expose the AARP's big liberal agenda. Check it out! Tell your family and friends to tune in!

USA Next's Chairman, Charlie Jarvis, will be on Lou Dobbs Tonight at 6 P.M. (Eastern time). He will continue his expose of the liberal AARP and the promotion of free market solutions to Social Security. Check it out! Tell your family and friends to tune in!

Charges of "flip-flopping" are flying on both sides of the aisle in the Social Security debate, as each party tries to discredit the other in the eyes of the public as dishonest. Those who support President Bush's reform plans say some Democrats, who now question whether a Social Security crisis is imminent, sang a different tune in the late 1990s, when President Clinton wanted to reform the system. "It's a deep concern to see the level of hypocrisy within the Democratic Party on this," said Charlie Jarvis, executive director of USA Next, a lobbying group that supports Mr. Bush's idea...

Bill O'Reilly takes on the AARP tonight (8 and 11 ET). USA Next Chairman and CEO, Charlie Jarvis, will help Bill smack the AARP around! Should be fun to watch! Tune in! Tell your family and friends.

USA Next's Charlie Jarvis is on The O'Reilly Factor Thursday night (TONIGHT) at 8 and 11 P.M. (Eastern time). He will launch a new line of attack on the liberal AARP. Check it out! Tell your family and friends to tune in!

USA Next's Charlie Jarvis is on The O'Reilly Factor Thursday night at 8 and 11 P.M. (Eastern time). He will launch a new line of attack on the liberal AARP. Check it out! Tell your family and friends to tune in!

Imagine waking up to a science-fiction world in which voting involves no secret ballots -- the government knows how you voted -- no opposition statements are permitted, multiple votes can be legally cast by the same voter, only property owners vote, nongovernmental friends of the political power structure literally run the elections and voters can change their votes as many times as they like before election day. Is this a scenario for the next century, the voting pattern in Saudi Arabia or Saddam's Iraq or what? No, it's what voters are now facing in Contra Costa County, with mail-in ballots...

Police Across Country Urge that Federal Assault Weapons Ban be Renewed Renewed 6/23/2004 Press Release States United to Prevent Gun Violence www.supgv.org Contacts: Carolynne Jarvis Phone: 517-321-0195 Bryan Miller Phone: 856-371-3038 800 Plus Police Chief and Sheriffs and Counting Across Country Urge That Federal Assault Weapons Ban Be Renewed and Strengthened Remarkable Grassroots Law Enforcement Support Demonstrated for Strong and Effective Assault Weapons Ban in National Outreach Project Lansing, MI - States United to Prevent Gun Violence (States United), the nationwide coalition of independent state-based organizations devoted to reducing gun violence, today delivered to all US Senators and Representatives a...

<p>Conservatives yesterday indicated more support for Arnold Schwarzenegger's bid to become governor of California.</p> <p>But they still stood ready to jump to one of two other major Republican candidates if the "Terminator" star stumbles badly in the campaign to replace Democratic Gov. Gray Davis.</p>

California taxpayers are celebrating a silver anniversary, as 2003 is the 25th year since the enactment of California's Proposition 13, whose landmark victory in 1978 sparked a national tax revolt. It passed in a landslide vote, with some 65 percent of Californians favoring the measure. The proposition slashed property taxes by limiting property-tax rates to 1 percent of the sales price of a home, and it limited subsequent increases to 2 percent per year -- a radical concept at the time. Previously, tax rates were based on a valuation established by a county assessor. Moreover, voracious local politicians determined the...

<p>One of my political rules of thumb: No reform that has any chance of actually working can be approved without squeals of protest from the elite opinion-makers. The converse is true: Anything that moves forward in a bipartisan fashion and is widely admired in the mainstream media is bound to be a disaster.</p>

<p>Twenty-five years ago, as Californians debated the merits and madness of Proposition 13, neighbors soaking at a block party in Sunnyvale nearly came to blows over the property-tax revolt.</p> <p>It happened to be in the neighborhood of Larry Stone, now the Santa Clara County assessor and a staunch foe of the tax break that changed life forever in this state.</p>