Heritage Action for America

It was a busy week for Heritage Action! Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) and Heritage Action CEO, Michael Needham, co-wrote an op-ed about the payroll tax cut extension that was published in The Washington Examiner. It was also linked to in The Salt Lake Tribune and The Washington Post.

On Tuesday night, during President Obama’s State of the Union address, Congressman Doug Lamborn (R-CO) participated in an online chat with Heritage Action, which received coverage in numerous media outlets:

Continue reading Heritage Action’s Week in Review 1-27-12 »

Seriously, can he? Today we’ve learned that Ener1, a lithium-ion battery maker filed for bankruptcy. Ener1 owns EnerDel, which received $118.5 million dollars from President Obama’s “green” energy stimulus plan. Also, Amonix, a solar plant touted by President Obama in 2010, has laid off 200 of its 300 employees.

For those who only hear about these failing companies one by one, the following is a list of all the clean energy companies supported by President Obama’s stimulus that are now failing or have filed for bankruptcy. The liberal media hopes you’ve forgotten about all of them except Solyndra, but we haven’t.

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We begin the second part of our response to President Obama’s State of the Union address by taking a quick step back to a part of his speech not mentioned Wednesday. This is a line that needs to be exposed:

“It’s not fair when foreign manufacturers have a leg up on ours only because they’re heavily subsidized.”

How is it not fair that heavily subsidized foreign manufacturers have a leg up but it is totally fair – in the President’s mind – for industries right here to get a leg up on others because of their subsidies? Two subsidies don’t make a right. This is why removing all loopholes, deductions and subsidies needs to be a part of any comprehensive tax reform.

Continue reading Pres. Obama “Recycler-in-Chief” (part 2) »