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Today's Downsizer Dispatch from DownsizeDC.org: House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer wants to raise your taxes. Send your Representative and your two Senators a letter rejecting this idea. You can copy or borrow from my letter . . . Here's what Steny Hoyer said at the Brookings Institution on Monday, March 1: “No one likes raising revenue (increasing taxes), and understandably so, but if you’re going to buy, you need to pay." I've got a better idea -- don't buy! Millions of Americans have had to cut their expenses because of the economy. Their prudence is fruitless if you raise their taxes to pay for YOUR orgy of spending. And please don't tell me that you're going to tax the rich, and NOT me. Rich people don't spend most of their money -- they invest it to create jobs! That's how they got rich. So the more you tax them the fewer jobs there will be. YOU don't create jobs, rich people do! Instead, you destroy jobs with high taxes and w...

Last week, Congress voted to extend three provisions of the so-called U.S.A. P.A.T.R.I.O.T Act (aka Patriot Act) for another year. You can see how your Representative voted here: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/ 2010/roll067.xml But if you do that you'll think we've sent you to the wrong link. You'll see that the title on the bill is "Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act." You see, H.R. 3961 originally started with that title and subject, and it passed the House in November. Then, this past Wednesday, Majority Leader Harry Reid ripped the guts out of the bill and replaced it with the Patriot extensions. The Senate then passed that version of the bill and sent it back to the House, where it was approved Thursday night. Now, you may be asking, where's the link to the Senate roll call vote? Well, there isn't one. The bill passed by Unanimous Consent, which means a voice vote. Everything about this process and bill is offensive to DownsizeDC.org . . ...

I used DownsizeDC.org's Educate the Powerful System to send a letter to my House Rep, Gabrielle Giffords, about the Free Competition in Currency Act. Here's how she responded . . . February 19, 2010 Dear Mr. Willis, Thank you for contacting me about the Free Competition in Currency Act of 2009 (H.R. 4248).  I appreciate hearing from you. As you may know, H.R. 4248 would repeal the section of the United States legal code that makes U.S. coins and currency "legal tender for all debts public and private."  The bill would also eliminate any taxes on the exchange of precious metals and currency. H.R. 4248 would legalize the creation of currency that competes with ordinary American coins and bills.  Currently, transactions involving precious metals and special coins are taxed as investments.  If this bill passes, state and local governments, along with private citizens, would be permitted to create their own currencies. H.R. 4248 was introduced on December 9, 2009...