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Ted Cruz New Year Message 2016! Via Fox News. Two minute YouTube video.

I have been a law-abiding citizen all my life. I've always played by the rules. That is about to change. The early morning passage yesterday of the Senate health care bill requires every American to purchase health insurance. I refuse. I will not abide by this bill if it is passed into law. And if the government levies a fine, I will not pay it. I've had enough. There comes a time when a line in the sand must be drawn. I've just drawn mine. I've listened to the outright lies our politicians have spouted in order to pass this...

WASHINGTON (Aug. 31) - Consumers can claim a standard $30 to $60 refund next year for a tax on long-distance telephone calls that the government declared invalid, the Internal Revenue Service announced Thursday. Telephone customers had been paying the 3 percent federal excise tax on local and long-distance service. The government this month stopped collecting the tax on long-distance calls after businesses repeatedly fought the tax in court and won. Next year, consumers can use their 2006 tax returns to claim a refund on long-distance telephone taxes paid since March 2003. The standard refund starts at $30 and increases by...

 Date: Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:49 pm (PDT)Bill:I will take a swing at the “why should we help grow the state group” question.When we started to expand the groups into all 50 states about three years ago, the FairTax was far less known than it is today. The Ga group grew to a substantial size (several hundred members, as I recall) fairly quickly, but the other states were much slower to “take off”. When we started the state groups, there was really no convenient way for rank and file grassroots supporters to communicate with each other conveniently, except those you...

Make the Tax Cuts PERMANENT And kill the death tax while you’re at it Republicans are hoping to do one of the few good things they have done well: make President Bush’s tax cuts permanent. This will not only keep more money in the pockets of taxpayers, it is expected to generate more revenue and chop at the deficit. It is believed that Bush’s tax cuts generated $100 billion in new tax revenues because taxpayers had more of their own money to invest, generating jobs that produced more tax revenues. A popular target is the estate tax, known as the...