Author: Renee Ellmers

Bob Etheridge’s Death Tax Flip Flop

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How much has Congressman Etheridge changed since he went to Washington? A study last year found that repealing the “Death Tax” (also called estate or inheritance taxes) would create 42,000 North Carolina jobs. Without a death tax, small family businesses and farms wouldn’t have to be broken up and sold to pay taxes. When he […]

 

Tax Increases We Cannot Afford

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The Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 will expire on January 1, 2011. When they sunset, taxes will increase by 10 percent or more on American families struggling to stay afloat during tough economic times. Taxes will go up an average of two thousand dollars per household on top of the six hundred billion […]

 

Dear Congressman Etheridge

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Yesterday I sent the following letter to the office of my opponent, Congressman Bob Etheridge: Dear Congressman Etheridge, Last week, you mailed (and emailed) letters and newsletters from your Congressional office to voters across the district. In every way these mailings resembled typical campaign ads, except they were paid for by taxpayers and not by […]

 

Who Will Bail Us Out?

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Americans are already paying for the lack of fiscal restraint exercised by their own elected leaders, but the proposed bailout of Greece would have them paying for the financial foibles of another country’s government as well. Since the proposed bailout would effectively be paying off Greek loans to German, Swiss, French and other European banks, […]