Gingrey, 3 others from Ga. join congressional Tea Party Caucus
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Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Ga.
Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Ga.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Four members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia have joined the fledgling congressional Tea Party Caucus.

Members of the caucus held their first meeting on Wednesday, with Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., as chairwoman.

The Georgia members are Reps. Phil Gingrey of Marietta, Tom Price of Roswell, Paul Broun of Athens and Tom Graves of Ranger.

Gingrey calls the tea party the greatest grass-roots movement he's ever seen. Broun says the caucus expresses the most powerful political force in the country.

Bachman says the caucus has 24 members so far. The caucus pledges to support tea party ideals of less government, lower taxes and strict adherence to the Constitution.
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« BS-Detector wrote on Monday, Jul 26 at 03:41 PM »
"Bachman says the caucus has 24 members so far"

The Georgia members are Reps. Phil Gingrey of Marietta, Tom Price of Roswell, Paul Broun of Athens and Tom Graves of Ranger.

If the 24 of you would give up your seat in DC wouldn't that be less government? Those tea party people are a funny bunch.

« Mipoco wrote on Sunday, Jul 25 at 07:32 AM »
He votes against the GOP on one issue and gets threats?

GOP Senator Lindsey Graham May Pay High Political Price For Supporting Elena Kagan

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/21/lindsey-grahams-vote-for_n_653948.html
« Mipoco wrote on Sunday, Jul 25 at 07:28 AM »
One Congressman on one issue? Judicial appointments.

Pretty much votes everything on party lines. Here is his record for the year:

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/g000359/votes/

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/g000359/votes/page2/
« FormerRoman wrote on Saturday, Jul 24 at 10:03 PM »
Lindsey Graham-You only asked for one!
« Mipoco wrote on Saturday, Jul 24 at 09:02 PM »
CapitolG wrote: "If people would educate themselves and put party affiliation aside, it could be a reality."

Show me ONE republican in Congress willing to do that since 1/20/2009.

« CapitolG wrote on Saturday, Jul 24 at 07:18 PM »
RyanM, you hit the nail on the head on all accounts. If people would educate themselves and put party affiliation aside, it could be a reality.
« gahalls wrote on Saturday, Jul 24 at 06:56 PM »
Voter we all know that SirDud is your brain child and second account to troll with.
« Voter wrote on Saturday, Jul 24 at 05:16 PM »
They must have committed post-natal abortion, Sirdud has not been heard from in a while.
« CapitolG wrote on Saturday, Jul 24 at 03:50 PM »
mip, I never said it was Boortz's idea. He wrote the book. It was John Linders idea, but all the guts of it came from a lot of folks. Linder and Boortz's names on it, puts a sour taste in for some folks, but if they read the book they'd like it. There's still no hope for socialist though.
« Mipoco wrote on Saturday, Jul 24 at 07:20 AM »
Sounds like CapitolG and gahalls have already had a room. You boys are the proud parents of SirDud, aren't you?

Boortz did NOT create the Fair Tax idea. That's been around as long as income taxes themselves. Boortz did help form the movement in recent years.
« P-Town wrote on Saturday, Jul 24 at 01:38 AM »
Liberals can support Boortz and the Libertarian party as they are the only ones who would actually stay out of your business. It is the progressive liberals who hate him as they can only support the ruling class of this country who they believe will ram their views down your throats. Without the strong voice of Americans the ruling class who run the politics from behind the scenes will never allow a fair tax a chance as it would remove the power from them and place it in the hands of patriots.
« RyanM wrote on Friday, Jul 23 at 08:50 PM »
Cap I think the liberals not being able to agree with Boortz is only a small part of it.

I think it's more the ignorance of the masses. Myself included. I tend to read just about everything that passes my way, but I haven't given the FairTax a fair shake. It actually sounds interesting.

Although I don't understand how you can buy a car that's used, but only a week old, and not pay taxes. (i don't know, maybe that's a problem I could get used to)

I do like the tax on consumption aspect though, b/c right now the rich just shelter their money anyway, and the poor/working class are the ones that pay double tax on everything.

Guess I should quit wasting time here and go read.
« CapitolG wrote on Friday, Jul 23 at 07:54 PM »
ipaytaxes, your right, the Fair Tax is federal, and does not apply at the state level. Quite honestly, I'm ok with that.

You should read the "Fair Tax book", "Fair Tax Answering the Critics", and "Fair Tax the Truth."

I'm pretty sure the library has at least one of those books. It will make you a full fledged supporter.

The only problem is some liberals have a problem agreeing with Neal Boortz.
« ipaytaxes wrote on Friday, Jul 23 at 04:58 PM »
i looked at the website for Fair Tax. It would not apply to Georgia withholding taxes. The State of Georgia gets a lot more of my money than the federal gov't. http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_basics_main

but hey i think abolishing the IRS & the 50 million regulations sounds good too.
« CapitolG wrote on Friday, Jul 23 at 03:21 PM »
Amen, gahalls!
« gahalls wrote on Thursday, Jul 22 at 09:10 PM »
This conservative will argue that if we have to keep the income tax that we should not all be in the same bracket but should play by the same rules. Make them low rates and absolutely no write offs, deductions, or credits. That will take the politics out. Other wise you just move tax burdens around and keep giving them new names every year. I vote for the Fair Tax.
« RyanM wrote on Thursday, Jul 22 at 08:57 PM »
You know, the argument that we should all be in the same tax bracket is pretty straight forward.

The question is can the conservative leaning people argue the other side of the argument?
« CapitolG wrote on Thursday, Jul 22 at 07:09 PM »
See, just like I said!
« ipaytaxes wrote on Thursday, Jul 22 at 07:00 PM »
NO He is not doing a good job. he is slicker than snot on a doorknob.
« Voter wrote on Thursday, Jul 22 at 06:42 PM »
Cap - you sure they let you go to school when you were a kid?