There have been times when I thought that the Republican Party did not stand for liberty. However, the truth is the Republican Party does not reject liberty, but rather it merely doesn’t understand or support liberty in its entirety. These differing views on liberty between the established Republican Party, elected Republican officials, and many of our local, county, and State parties, and the more conservative, constitutionalist, and libertarian Republican Voter has created enormous conflict and tension.
I believe the first step we must take is to recognize that the Republican Party does believe in liberty. I think even Mitch McConnell and John Boehner believe in liberty. They don’t want citizens to serve as slaves to The State. They constantly fight for our political liberty against all kinds of Democrat attacks. The Republican Party has also always stood up for our Religious Liberty, again, against all manner of Democrat attacks. Unfortunately, political liberty and religious liberty are the only branches of liberty the Republican Party focuses on.
Economic liberty and individual liberty do not seem universally respected by all of our elected Republican officials. This is important to understand, because the Republican Party appears to be in shock as Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Rand Paul gain enormous amounts of support. The people we consider to be “establishment republicans” do not seem to understand how regulations, corruption, or debt threaten liberty.
Much of the liberty we lose isn’t viewed as a loss of liberty, but merely as a regulation of human behavior. We’re not telling you that you can’t fish, we’re just telling you that you have to register to fish. We’re not telling you that you can’t buy alcohol. We’re just telling you that you can’t buy alcohol after midnight. We’re not telling you that you can’t buy a ladder. We’re just telling you that some ladders are OSHA safe and other ladders aren’t and that anything deemed unsafe is forbidden.
The libertarian and the constitutionalist might question what right the government has to make us safe, but the conservative is generally in favor of government regulations against immorality or moral depravity, and tends not to get upset until some regulation costs them money, or costs them their job, or makes their life more difficult. Conservatives want liberty, but they do not want disorder and they do not want a society accepting of depravity. Yet, all three groups agree that debt (something paid in interest by future citizens), corporatist corruption, high taxes, and intrusive regulations impede what they consider to be their liberty.
Debt is a current government’s way of stealing the wealth of future taxpayers. It’s a way of one generations stealing the wealth of future generations. Theft, we can all agree, is antithetical to the principles of liberty.
Corporatist corruption exists to destroy small businesses trying to compete with big business. From the small farmer, to the small inventor, to the mom and pop shops all across America; they all understand that expensive taxes, regulations, and licenses do not exist to “keep people safe,” but to protect Big Business from local or community competition. The more expensive a regulation, the more devastating it is to companies and businesses that are small. Wal-Mart can afford to pay a couple million dollars a year on some new regulation, but their smaller competition cannot. This threatens their sense of economic liberty.
The same is true of high and complicated taxes. The bigger the business, the more lawyers and accountants they can hire, and the more capable they are of navigating the horrifically complex regulatory and tax climate that exists in The United States. Smaller businesses and individuals cannot afford the same representation and cannot “work the system.” Again, this is government giving Big Business a hand up, while smacking down the little guy.
For most of us, we wake up, we go to work, and we try to get ahead. We have hobbies and families and churches and communities. We just want to get through the day without running into twenty thousand different laws, taxes, fees, licenses, and regulations. This is where the Republican Party tends to lose their base, because not only do they not understand how frustrating this can be, they are also indignant toward us for complaining about it, or worse… asking them to do something about it. Every new law and regulation costs money—raising taxes, fees, and fines, and increasing the cost of the goods we buy, and lowering our standard of living.
In the 1990s we were all fat and happy. No one cared about all these new regulations and costs. The Republican Voter stood by while the system we have today was created, and did nothing. We said nothing.
We’re much poorer now. One third of working age adults don’t have jobs. Americans are struggling and the only people you hear defending the system are rich people or people who depend on our current system for their employment. Did anyone ever expect that public servants would be making more money than the public they served? You see, when the average Republican Voter looks at their elected officials, they often feel that the government does not exist for the benefit of the people, but for the benefit of the government and of the special interests they serve.
I’m not asking the Republican Party to change overnight. I’m not an idealist and I don’t believe that a system as corrupt and complex as the United States Federal Government can change quickly. However, the Republican Party needs to understand how its voters feel about liberty, what they really want from their government, and just how angry they are with the current relationship between The People and their government. They need to begin making some changes that reduce our tax and regulatory burdens, to reduce the amount of money the government steals from future generations through debt, and begin to bring us all back together as one party in pursuit of liberty, life, and equality under the law.
I am convinced that the Republican Party wants to move in our direction and that it really does value the principles and ideas upon which it was founded. Once they understand that We The People are not angry over nothing and that we aren’t overreacting, they can begin working with their constituents with sympathy and understanding. We simply want to be free, economically and personally. If the Republican Party would embrace a broader view of liberty, I believe it would dramatically increase its support amongst the American People, and more importantly, would form a more loyal bond with those they represent.
Now is the time and I trust that this current Republican Party leadership has the ability to do the right thing and take us in the right direction. They may, however, simply need a little more encouragement from us, their voters.
Furthermore, I believe that working together goes both ways. Conservatives, constitutionalists, and libertarians should work with their local, state, and national Republican Parties, be involved, be encouraging and even sympathetic to the fact that a great many of the things that are wrong in government today cannot be changed quickly. We must be informed and persistent and dedicated and helpful, otherwise, I fear that our influence will continue, despite our numbers, to be ineffectual.
Originally published at PendletonPenn.com
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Republicans are dense imo. When the Taxed Enough Already people descended on DC 1/2 million strong it should have woken up the most sleepy politician. The republicans sided with the democrats and bashed them, as well as were complicit in using the IRS to go after them.
“Now is the time and I trust that this current Republican Party leadership has the ability to do the right thing and take us in the right direction”.
Wow. This statement is so delusional I don’t even know where to start.
1. You need legislators that want this to happen. It took a long time to dig the liberty hole we are in and, as noted, it will take a long time to get out BUT we are on the path. It is just taking a very long time. My biggest concern is the Cantor types who are mobilizing now and trying to squash it.
2. The federal government it too distant from the people and too insulated. This is nothing new and has been recognized since inception. To counter this, we need strong STATE governments who are willing to band together and challenge the federal government. I’d say that, looking at how “republican” the states have become, we are actually moving in the right direction on this but need s strong state-level leader to pull the states together. This person has not yet been unveiled.
3. Suggest focusing on balancing the federal budget. Once balanced, we stop adding debt and the debt will mature and be paid off over time and take care of itself.
4. End the income tax system. I suggest taking the federal budget, dividing it by the # of congressional districts, and send every state a bill for their portion. It should be up to the state to collect the taxes and remit the payment to the federal government. This gives taxpayers an advocate against unreasonable taxation–the state.
5. You mention Trump, Cruz, Rubio, and Paul. Of those, I think only Rand Paul has any intent of expanding liberty. The other 3 have little to no interest. But I don’t think you are going to get more liberty from the top. It will have to be a movement pushed up through the states.
Of course we can’t force them. Where have you been? Money speaks. You dry up their economy and they will do anything we want. They will do it.
There would be huge backlash in America if we did that much damage to their economy. And that’s the same as forcing them to do it.
Mexico would hate us if we tried what Trump is suggesting, it’s not going to get them to help us with anything. It will sour relations and make them less likely to help us, not more. When was the last time you happily did something under duress?
And if Mexico’s economy is drying up, where will the people go? Here! Even if Mexico did finally buckle and agree to build the wall, which they wouldn’t, it would take months to happen and even longer to actually build the wall. Meanwhile you would have tens of millions of desperate people with nothing to lose flooding across our border. By the time the wall was built the problem would have become a thousand times worse than it is today.
It’s a bad idea. It’s a nice fantasy, getting Mexico to pay to stop their people from breaking into the country, but in reality it’s just a plain bad idea.
A toll Road style border crossing is AWSOME!
And frankly we must build the wall as to protect America from where States fall short { Va Employee Misclassification }
Not arguing against a toll road or wall, both would be great. Mexico won’t pay for us to build either of them.
Uh , they pay for it and pay to maintain it by the Toll.
We’d have to pay to put the road and the booths in. Then they would pay for it by the tolls. Mexico won’t fork over a dime to build anything of ours beforehand.
I would imagine that we have some fine financial institutions to penny up and make money on the loan for we bailed them out.
Sounds nice, but getting it done? Those institutions will find thousands of ways to wiggle out of doing it.
Fascinating discussion.
We can turn this country around with debate like this but we all must be willing to swallow the truth.
We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men’s labor. Here are two , not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name liberty. And as it follows that each of these things is, by respective parties , called by two different and incompatible names – Liberty and Tyranny. Thanks, Honest Abe , Long live Liberty!
Do the Republicans in the Virginia Legislature plan to still allow illegal aliens to be exploitated at the expense of Virginias General fund , or will they still remain complicit , guilty?
Federal Mandated employee misclassification legislation is before us right now { the bull elephant won’t report }.
Personally they lack the testicular fortitude to deliver Statesman style legislation , that day of nobility has long eluded our Republicans.
C’Mon Senator Black , santuray city legislation , just what do you have on the Mandated legislation?
So, you have local Republicans like Dick Black STILL NOT GETTING THE MESSAGE, giving pork to groups like the Waterford Foundation (a PEC-clone, harming property rights and business). Dick has previously positioned himself as pro-liberty/pro-property rights. What happened? The recent Action Alert should give him pause:
Folks in Dick Black’s District are up in arms over his current Dear Constituent letter saying he’s working for state funds for the Waterford Foundation. Waterford is the offspring of the Piedmont Environmental Council, known far and wide for its enhancement of the public domain at the expense of landowners and farmers.
Here is a letter written by one of his constituents who asks that concerned Virginians write Senator Black, Senator Obenshain, and others on Senate Finance showing why Waterford doesn’t need taxpayer money (state and federal) and shouldn’t have it.
Senator,
The Waterford Foundation benefits extensively as a non-profit and does not pay real estate taxes on numerous buildings under the VA Code § 58.1-3607. Because they operate a concert business, a wedding business, an event business, hold various fair-type consignment events, sell tickets for home tours, rent buildings, and buy, subdivide and sell land, it would seem that they are in a position to fund themselves— all while paying high salaries to staff and providing special “event” perks and funds for staff and associates.
In addition, it is well-document that there are serious title, boundary, and property ownership issues in Waterford. There is a related case currently before the Virginia Supreme Court. The Waterford Mill sits upon an alleged public right-of-way. The right-of-way was never dedicated to the public by the underlying owner(s). Utilizing grant money and other funds to stabilize buildings, such as the Waterford Mill, when no determination as to the owner of the underlying street (upon which the building sits) has been made, is an improper use of government assistance.
The Waterford Foundation should NOT receive additional perks or funds through the public purse.
Wow , Thank you!
It is always good to see the issues within Goverment and our Reps as to how it effects us.
Only the Lord knows the truth so we must communicate debate and have free speach. It appears that all of America is at war with both parties.
What happened to the noble idea of term limits?
It is true that Cruz was working on immigration and now Trump gets all of the credit. But just what was Cruz’s position on immigration. If he spoke about it it was in a whisper where Trump used a megaphone. I still believe he is weak on immigration but he has time to convince me and others what his policy will be. I like Trump’s position on building the wall and having Mexico pay for it. Why not let Mexico know they will get no more bail out or money or assistance from the US. There all types of treaties and sanctions we could impose. Mexico will not only help build the wall they will help secure the boarder.
That’s not going to happen, at all. We can’t force Mexico to do a thing. Even if we put political pressure on them they still don’t have to lift a finger or pay anything.
“I think even Mitch McConnell and John Boehner believe in liberty.” Funniest thing I have read all day! If the GOP gave a damn about this country they wouldn’t be supporting and passing the bills that they do.
Is there anyone that writes for this site that isn’t delusional?
If these Liberty minded politicians really believe in Liberty how does that square with the 100’s of thousands of regulations added to the obscene amount of taxes we all pay. Do you really think that these politicians are so stupid they don’t understand what is happening in this country. Recently I read that Cruz has borrowed well over a million dollars to get a job paying 200,000. Look at Cantor’s financial gain while being a congressman.These politicians could care less about Liberty. The problem we have to face with our government, both parties, is they are self serving parasites on the citizenry. Many of them need to be in jail. A change is needed and I believe we will have to have a reset. This will be a painful era.
If Cruz has borrowed that much money, (which I seriously doubt) it’s because he believes in America and believes if we don’t act NOW it will be too late to save our country. It’s not about a job that pays $400,000 a year with a $50,000 expense account. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0875856.html I completely disagree that there are no politicians who care about Liberty. There are. Cruz is one of them.
Go to the Conservative Treehouse and read up on Ted. I used to think Ted was the cat’s meow until I started digging around. One day it hit me about his whole theater over McConnell lying to him. I am not a smart, brilliant lawyer, and I knew McConnell was lying, how come Ted didn’t? Cruz is also smart enough to know anything that Obama does is bad for the country, and yet there is Cruz right along w/the rest of them on the TPP. He is weak on immigration, if we don’t get that under control there will be no country left. When I learned he sealed his documents that was the end.
Thanks!
You have to do a great deal of scrolling, but there is really some interesting stuff, the guy actually does investigative reporting, backs up his information w/fact, instead of opinion. I have to warn you it is Trump central, so be prepared for the gushers and groupies, and Cruz haters. I don’t hate Cruz, just found out he isn’t what I thought. The guy’s stuff on the GOPe plan early on is fascinating.
Nor am I dead set against Cruz either.
I do oppose/question his Tax Plan.,
I don’t want staffers and Cabinet Members to be camphain payback but I think Trump will award these positions to people who fit for their purpose to help Make America Great Again.
I am tired of career politicians and lawyers, I am tired of DC being the old boy network and we pay the price for their greed and power. I am done w/the GOP betraying me. I am willing to take a chance on Trump. I don’t always like his style, but I can deal w/it, the man isn’t stupid, and one thing for sure he has always been a Patriot. I want someone to be POTUS that loves the country instead of loving power and wanting One World Order.
The New World Order sucks , and the only freedom that free trade promotes is the freedom for some to exploit, if it does why is there China. NAFTA was supposed to stop the immigration issue , it did not
it was supposed to help uplift Mexico , it did not. They got the shafta when they passed CAFTA. My Levis were made in SanFrancisco , then Mexico , then China. The crap has to come to an end.
Yes Trump has always been a patriot / ProAmerican.
The reason Ted didn’t know McConnell was lying was because he was working in the Senate, so was McConnell. People naturally are more trusting of the people they co-exist and work with. That’s part of the reason Congressional delegations are usually friendlier to members of their own states, even mixed party delegations, they share a space and want to trust and work with one another. So it is in the Senate as well. Ted Cruz wanted to believe that the Republican Senate Leader was trustworthy, he wasn’t. It’s easy to look in from the outside and say “Boy, you should’a know that was bad!” It isn’t so easy in the moment, believe me. When was the last time you were in a business or professional meeting and looked somebody in the eye and told them they were lying or amoral? That’s not easy to do. You want to believe the people you are working with are going to do the right thing.
Cruz switched to a “No” on the fast track of the TPP. He voted for it originally, came back and said that the TPA and TPP were bad ideas, has voted against them and is now consistently stating his opposition to them.
Ted isn’t weak on immigration, as he said, and as most Conservatives worth their salt have agreed with him on, he was trying to shut down the immigration bill from within. His positions on immigration are solid. If you look at the proposals he and Trump aren’t that far apart, so unless you’re blasting Trump as well, that dog don’t hunt.
Keep on believing that if you like.
I do believe because it’s the truth. The truth points to itself.
Bless your heart, the truth has many paths.
Correction, there are many paths to the truth, but only one truth at the end of the road.
Follow the money, tangled web of deceit, lies, and power grabs.
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/01/26/senate-majority-leader-mitch-mcconnell-attorney-heads-pro-cruz-anti-trump-super-pac/
Because an ex worker for McConnell is leading the PAC, so too must McConnell? That’s incorrect. One man switching sides is common in politics.
There’s no fire with this smoke.
Also, Trump was been the one working to protect McConnell from Cruz: http://www.redstate.com/2016/01/19/trump-bashes-ted-cruz-calling-mitch-mcconnell-liar/
I didn’t mean to imply there were no politicians who believe in in Liberty. At the federal level there are probably about ten to fifteen percent. Have you not seen any of the poling date on the popularity of our current political elite. We are 18 trillion dollars in debt, our tax dollars being used here and abroad supporting every imaginable need, corruption in every facet of our society and what is the political class doing? Trump is my first choice and Cruz is my second. Cruz has worked most of his life in some government occupation or has been in some elected office. That does not give me a great deal of confidence.
Why do you believe that Trump is more trustworthy than Cruz?
Because of illegal immigration. Cruz failed to speak out / up about the Texas legislature screwing Texans and America through their Employee misclassification Legislation. has Cruz worked in Texas Goverment in any way ? Please list positions. If you can’t clean up your state { or don’t want to } how do you clean up America?
Trump is the employer not the complicit Lawyer.
Ted Cruz is a United States Senator from Texas, he can’t vote on anything in the state of Texas legislature. The best he can do is cast his ballot from a Delegate or State Senator that will vote the right way, speak at rallies, and make noise.
By the same standards you are applying here, Trump should have fixed up New York before doing anything else. Has Trump held any positions in New York’s government as an elected official? List them. I’m just applying your standards to your argument.
If he can’t clean up his own state, how can Trump clean up America? Same question you asked me. Unless New York IS Trump’s vision of America?
On topic with the supporters of Trump is the illegal immigration issue. If you tackle the issue on what drives Trumps support , you may only then move on with me for the rest is a distractrion from the truth of Trumps driving force. Cruz a Texas Deputy Attorney General and Lt. Governor and in his elected positions exucutive { Lt Governor } and Law { AG } how did Cruz combat illegal immigration ? Cruz alsoi has been endorsed byn EX AG Republican Ken Cuccinelli . Ken C. a Constitutional lawyer as Cruz allowed illegal aliens to work under the 1099, under Ken C. Commissioner Broadway of the Virginia Employment Commission whintin audits performed under law { the VECA } was classifying these illegal aliens as ” bona-fide ” independent contractors , by proxy this deregulated Va. Statutes 54.1-1100. This gave a Green Light to licenseed contractors to break the law.
So please try to stay on task with the issue that drives Trumps support , I know it is difficult for this is where Cruz fails over and over and over.
Stay on task? You’re the one that brought all this up in the first place. I’ve been replying to your points utilizing your own standards.
I notice you didn’t actually reply to anything I stated either.
Cruz was never a LT Governor. Ever. I think you’re thinking of Dewhurst, the guy he beat. And Cruz was a Deputy Attorney General of the United States Government, not of Texas. He was the Solicitor General of Texas before becoming Senator.
So wait, under Cuccinelli somebody else did something you disagree with under his watch and that leans over onto Cuccinelli and from him onto Ted Cruz who Cuccinelli endorsed. And therefore that action, by somebody else under the watch of somebody who endorsed Ted Cruz, is therefore a black mark on Cruz? That’s waaayyyyy out of left field.
I sit on a E-mail response from Ag Ken C. stating ; Virginia does not have the statute authority to persue the unlicensed contractor/ illegal alien . They do have the authority to persue the licensed contractor who is violating prohibited acts section of Statutes 54.1-1100 for conspiring with an unlicensed contractor in the delivery of contracting services. To lie is one thing to withhold the truth/facts is dishonest and some may think this is the tell tail.
And I apolige no Cruz never held an executive position , he is just a lawyer.
If the Lawyer Senator rocks the boat in the Senate , how does he rock the boat in defending America from employers exploitating illegal aliens through employee misclassification at the expense of States general fund and the legal employer/worker? It was and is KenC. fault in Va. for it was his responsibilty to make sure that all State Dept . Directors and Commissioner were opperating within the law. If he was then he can sue Democrat Governor McAuliffe , Democrat Attorney General Herring and the Loobbyist Commissioner of DOLI for implementing a policy change { July 01 2015 } refering all violations issued to unlicensed contractors to DPOR for investegation and the VEC for Audits performed under the VECA.
Cucci would not do, not Dems but liberals are now. So if Ken C. did not have the authority sue Herring because he is after the unlicensed contractor . Look at his public request on Oct 14 2015 wanting all information of unlicensed contracting to be sent to his desk.
Trump is here partly because of the inaction of Republicans.
only Trump can
Make America Great Again
Cuccinelli’s faults are his own, If he should have done more, that’s the end of it. He should have but didn’t. It doesn’t pertain to Ted Cruz.
Cruz rocked the Senate, several times, meaning Cruz does take action.
Trump is here because Democrats and Republicans have messed up, that is true. However, he won’t fix it. He’s said he won’t. Trump said that he won’t govern like he campaigns and that: “When I’m president I’m a different person. I can do anything. I can be the most politically correct person you have ever seen.”
That won’t make America great again.
Birds of the same feather flock together. And I do not expect anything out of any of the Candidates on illegal immigration after November { Obama will give executive amnesty before he leaves }but Trump will build the Wall , that is a start for me, because of the complicity that exist with the rest.
You didn’t touch a single word of what I said about Trump, including his own quote. You’re switching for Cuccinelli to and then back to Trump, ignoring what I’m saying.
I’m going to hazard a guess that the reason for that is you can’t refute it.
Ok in Cruz fashion; The feet you meet. The feet on the street, the illegals feet , the smugglers feet ,the drug dealers feet, how many feet?
One foot Two foot three foot more oh now it is the illegal alien breaking through the door? Shoot , Shoot no , give him a job or money and he will hide in the woods until you leave to get your honey { true story }. The feet you meet you might even get to play with them if you have asoccer ball to kick with your feet. Ok ,now I am a Cruz supporter. na don’t think so as the latino construction workers I was standing with at RIR Trump Rally were stating; Build the Wall.
What on earth?
Cruz was, is, and has been, for building the wall. He actually started on border security, the wall, before Trump did and has been speaking about it longer. To say otherwise is to misrepresent his position.
You stand with Cruz , Cuccinelli and Arlex Armando Cardenas Flores.
I stand with Trump , the law and the American worker.
and yes I know Trump uses some forrein labor , through the HB program { which is legal } BIG DIFFERENCE.
Now everybody who opposes Trump, no matter what the reason is, is a supporter of illegal immigration and against the law and the American worker? Swing and a miss.
And again, you haven’t replied to anything I’ve said. You’ve launched another attack, but you haven’t replied to any of my points.
A Truthful attack on Ken C. { Cruz supporter , constitutional lawyer } like Cruz and you refuse to stay on topic with what is driving Trumps support. Not a swing and miss Trump is here because of inaction, and yes inaction on illegal immigration.
Again, I’m replying to the topics you’re bringing up. In this case, the topic of your post was how I, Cruz, Cuccinelli, and a convict are for illegal immigration and are against America and the law because we’re not supporting Trump.
And for the third time, you’re not replying to my posts, you’re just pivoting to different forms of attack.
No No No You are not against America for not supporting Trump. Cucci Cruz hadd oppurtunity and now you have the same opportunity to speak out or up about illegal aliens illegally in the Va. workforce in an underground labor market through the Mandated employee misclassification legislation , just how does Cruz Cucci , and you want to end this illegal commerce? I do not change at all my issue is illegal immigration. And I am not striking out just the other day on this site Black propose Santurary City legislation , why not try Santurary Employment Legislation, for they are not in Virginia beach to live that is a place to stay wher the State allows you to illegally work.
That is Legislation only designed to throw the dog a bone and I don’t buy it . To sue a City in your State is BS , when your State is not enforcing the employment and occupational laws that foster illegal immigration. Employment is the first issue , then Republicans have the credibility to move forward with the other issues.
You’re still conflating Cuccinelli and Cruz, doesn’t work because both men, although they are both Conservative, have different focuses as politicians.
To clarify, you striking out had nothing to do with speaking about illegal immigration. But rather that you started attacking me, Cruz, and Cuccinelli for not being razor-focused on immigration and stating that we were against the rule of law because of that.
The solution for illegal immigration here in Virginia is at the state level. You want to fix our problems with this? Get our government here to take action. That means getting a Republican Party that is actually functional and listens to the voters around here. More of men like Dave Brat, less of men like Bill Howell.
I am focused on illegal immigration.
I have to listen to lawyers on what they would for job creation , lawyers and politicians do not create jobs entrepreneurship , hard work and community support does. I am tired if the pu$$y footing around the issue. This story is about liberty , regulation { and I gave a credible outlook on what happens when you don’t enforce regulations }. I have put forth an outlook from a legal employer aspect when we elect people / lawyers who do not enforce regulation/law for the hopes of political gain , Administrative Deregulation by elected Republicans as to allow illegal exploited labor for illegal commerce for profiteering against your constituents. Dave Brat Bill Howell, what the heck does an economic professor know about employment , illegal immigration { except Cantor meetings } and the detrimental effects of combining illegal immigration, unlicensed contracting , and employee misclassification . Dave is unspoken therefore unknowledgeable of the effects of this deregulation and I do not expect he really cares for we know that ; ” Labor is prior to , and independent of , capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor , and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is superior of capital , and deserves much the higher consideration “. Thanks again Honest Abe , todays Republican has sold out his country { Dems gave it away }. State Legislation ha ha ha, did you see that trow the dog a bone legislation that Black proposed? How about the Federally Mandated Employee Misclassification Legislation , Brat should know , uh Fed. Place blindfold over eyes now and cash check , is the Republican way. The Liberty to deregulate.
Trump is the ONLY candidate understands the balance of Board Room and the workforce.
Okay, not liking lawyers on illegal immigration is fine. Not liking Ted Cruz because he’s a lawyer and deciding that he has to be weak on illegal immigration because of that is stereotyping and unsupported by the facts.
Dave Brat is the single most Conservative member of the Virginia Congressional Delegation. If he’s not good enough for you, you’re not looking for anybody that you’re going to find. Trump included, given that he has stated that he would to be an entirely different President than he is a candidate.
Trump understands big business, I’d like a man who understands the American people. Compare Texas to New York and tell me which one fits the heart of the American spirit better.
Yes, I will group Ted cruz with those lawyers.
1 I firmly believe Cruz cares less about the effects of illegal immigartion as it’s benifiets.
2 Value added Tax. So the family S-Corp , so you want to do me a favor and cut my Cap Gains from 25% to 16% .I pay nothing $0.00 I save properly.
My employee Tax liability My FUTA is based on the first $7,000.00 SS, and Med. and you want to do me another favor and raise mytax to 16% ? WTF I ain’t no fool and neither are other family S-Corps who have a few employees.
Keep in mind right now I get up every day and walk out my door and compete with illegal alien/unlicensed contractors not subject to this increase or even a payment at all.
And Texas ain’t no Virginia . I care less about the NY TX value tissy
If everything is bigger in Texas is that the illegal immigartion issue ?
Now Brat got into office on being out spoken against Cantor on illegal immigartion alone. What is Dave Brats stance on illegal immigration / employee misclasification being that it is Federally Mandated Legislation ? Or does he understand complex eployment, tier contracting and the regulations that govern it? He may need Trumps knowledge.
Please post his view.
And again, that’s a stereotype that is unsupported by the facts of the situation. Ted Cruz is strong on immigration and he has been in support of securing the border from the start. Before Trump, I might add.
And we go into another issue that would need to be solved primarily at the state-level. States have rights over the employers in the states, change it in the Virginia government.
That isn’t answering the question. The question is, which state fits the soul of America better, New York or Texas? The answer, which you already knew but did’t want to say, is Texas.
Brat on immigration: http://www.usnews.com/opinion/economic-intelligence/2014/06/26/dave-brat-is-no-free-market-guy-on-immigration
The President sets the tone, gives direction to the Senate and Congress, he doesn’t write the bills or micromanage. So he wouldn’t help Brat at all. Trump’s approach, which he has said he wouldn’t take because he’d be a PC President, wouldn’t work even if he tried it.
I looked at those sites.
E-Verify is a regulation that will have loopholes in Tiered Contracting.
We must pick immigration legislation and examine every bit of it because of what politicians have not said over the past 15 years.
The have always spoke ; Comprhensive Immigration Reform , BS it never addressed the shadows , the labor exploitation.
And on a federal level why doesn’t Congressman Goodlatte or Brat bring forth legislation withholding States Federal Unemployment Funding until they enforce their respective Professional and Occupational Laws like Va. Statutes 54.1-1100. If you fail to enforce laws like this properly or in Virginias case at all it undermines Federal efforts in employee misclassification and HB programs and still allows the subsidized shadow economy , they are all tied in together. And for State legislators to have santurary city laws , but then the same state not enforce her laws that lure in the illegal alien is nothing more than a trow the dog a bone mantality and iresponsible {Senator Black }.
No I won’t put Texas above New York , but in the State of New York there is NYC , like in Va we have DC and NOVA , very different from Carroll County Virginia. I take Virginia where both Trump and Cruz knew to come, not TX or NY.
Yes it will, but it’s a start.
That’s part of the reason Republicans like Brat and Cruz don’t like sweeping reforms, they know it won’t work. You have to tackle one issue at a time, take the long way that works rather than the short one that sounds good but leads to nowhere.
Because it wouldn’t pass. Obama is still there, would veto the bills. And, very importantly, Speaker Ryan would stop the bill. The Establishment Republican viewpoint is that anything besides closing the border is nativism, code for racism.
Most of the immigration issues will have to be solved by the states themselves. Expecting the federal government to come in and fix everything won’t work because the federal government makes more mistakes than the local government.
Wait, what? You won’t put Texas, the reddest state in the USA, over New York in terms of American value and spirit? New York City is the tone-setter of the entire state. And it is Trump’s home and the city that elected a socialist mayor.
A fifty-year Professor at Harvard Law said that Ted Cruz was the smartest man to go through Harvard Law during his entire time on the faculty. While “smart” is not exactly prudence, it is a whole lot better than the next thing when combined with honesty. The Cruz principled position against ethanol prior to the Iowa Convention may cost him Iowa since Trump has come out strongly in favor of it which I think is the wrong position.
So you agree with Cruz on the issue of ethanol. But he isn’t your favorite candidate overall?
He’s the only one I have contributed to but I’m not married to his campaign.
Fair enough.
The have have questionable integerity as to where their loyalities lie.
Trump is a made man , therefore I am out on a limb { crowded one at that } , to Make America Great Again.
American Jobs
Defending the American Dream
Trump in 2016
They are all thick as thieves, and corrupt, doing only what will make them richer and remain in power instead of focusing on the issues that are important to the American people. Cruz is no angel and has dirty hands. http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/01/26/senate-majority-leader-mitch-mcconnell-attorney-heads-pro-cruz-anti-trump-super-pac/
I happen to like Glenn Beck. He’s a God-fearing Conservative man that has done a wonderful job spreading a message of smaller government. Not to mention all the work he has done to bring attention to the plight of Israel.
Under Cucci in 2012 DPOR ran a 2.9 Million Dollar Surplus . This revenue comes from legal licensed contractor / employers like myself, In the same year Cucci brought forth not one prosecution or reffered the case of unlicensed contracting to the local prosecuter.
In the Lynchburg area alone in 2012 ther were 200 violations issued by DOLI to unlicensed contractors. Example is Arlex Armando Cardenas Flores Attempted Abduction at Va. Tech June 2012 .
I also thought that ther was a JLARC Report stating that illegal aliens were not working on state jobs. When you are elected to office and you withhold the facts as to advance you { Immigration } agenda you cause our Reps not to write proper legislation.
I’ve addressed this subject in a comment below. None of this pertains to the subject of my comment here which is about Glenn Beck, not Ken Cuccinelli, Ted Cruz, or illegal immigration.
Again, you’re not replying to what I’m saying.
Glenn Beck , ok . Isn’t that the { Bleading heart } Republican
Conservative who took Soccer balls to the Obama { slave importer } illegal aliens at the border.
He’s the man that went down to the border to comfort children who were being used by their parents.
How come he said he’ll vote for Bernie over Trump?
That was hyperbole Beck used to illustrate a shot at Trump. Beck said that he doesn’t like Trump because he’s dishonest, and even though he fundamentally opposes Bernie Sanders on virtually every issue, Sander is honest.
Nothing to see or read into Beck’s comment. Beck was taking a jab at Trump saying the socialist guy who wants to ruin America was more likable and trustworthy than Trump.
Actually, several right-leaning folks have said that Sanders is a fruitcake but they like him because he’s open about what he’s doing. Having someone blatantly state that they are destroying America is apparently refreshing after dealing with people who are destroying America and then denying they are doing it. Don’t ask me why.
he borrowed money from Goldman Sachs for his US Senate campaign. he did not report it on his campaign filings with the FEC. he said it was merely an error. his must have been only fed campaign that didn’t have a treasurer competent in fed elections