Bob Goodlatte and term limits: Time to forgive and move on
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Every two years, Bob Goodlatte is reminded of a campaign promise he made way back in 1992, when he was making his first bid for the Sixth District congressional seat.
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How a fairer tax code can improve America’s infrastructure
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As Congress heads home to celebrate the Fourth of July, it leaves with two critical issues unaddressed. The first is the increasing – and troubling – trend of big corporations essentially giving up their American citizenship and reincorporating overseas to reduce their U.S. taxes.
Andy Schmookler: We see now more clearly all that the Supreme Court stole from the American people in Bush v. Gore
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The decision in Bush v. Gore was so disgraceful on the face of it that the Court itself warned against using its “reasoning” in other cases. The five conservative justices elected Bush president.
Pushing buttons? Open carry guys seem to want their guns taken away
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The open carry gun groups sure are getting what they want. If what they want is more public pressure to put restrictions on gun rights.
President Obama on the state of the U.S. economy
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We know from our history our economy doesn’t grow from the top down; it grows from the middle out. We do better when you’ve got some construction workers on the job. They then go to a restaurant and they buy a new car. That means the workers there start doing better.
Another Democratic legislator resigns
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Richmond Democratic State Sen. Henry Marsh has joined the parade of Democrats leaving the Virginia General Assembly.
And just like that: Emmett Hanger has already beaten the Tea Party at its own game
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Just a couple of weeks ago, 24th District State Sen. Emmett Hanger was looking vulnerable, and I told him as much in what turned into a series of emails between the two of us.
Times-Dispatch: Emails show planning between Puckett, Kilgore
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“Terry spoke to us today about announcing your role w/ the Commission in conjunction with what he said is your intention to announce your Senate plans tomorrow,” an email dated June 5 from Tim Pfohl, the interim executive director of the Virginia Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission, to Phil Puckett, a Democratic state senator at that point two days away from announcing his resignation.
Ending the taxpayer subsidy for exorbitant executive bonuses
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There is an outrage in our tax code and it’s costing you money. Federal law currently gives publicly–held corporations a special tax deduction when they pay their executives huge “performance-based” bonuses. The deduction can be worth millions of dollars. The more they shower their executives with such pay, the less publicly-held corporations pay in federal taxes.
Give college graduates a future with real freedom: Freedom from debt
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For members of the college and high school classes of 2014, and for past graduates, this effort to tackle the student debt issue is sorely needed.
