This is a very dangerous bill that will change the system of government, taxing and spending in Arizona.
Written by State Senator Thayer Verschoor, Mesa:
SB1003 was written with enacting language to give unchecked authority for unelected appointees of the governor to raise taxes in the form of fees across a broad spectrum of our everyday lives.
It has never been good policy to give the governor and her appointees this absolute unchecked authority. Our Constitution is clear that taxing and appropriation authority rests solely with the legislature. SB1003 would not even have given the legislature minimal oversight over the increases OR the use of the funds raised.
I have made my position known for many weeks IN WRITING to the Senate leadership that I would not support any legislation that ceded this constitutional authority to the governor and her appointees. For example, if the governor wants to give 1 million dollars to his /her favorite cause, all he /she would have to do is raise the price of a duplicate driver's license by "only" one dollar. The legislature could do little more than complain about it.
It is important to emphasize that once this authority is granted, it would be nearly impossible to return the authority to its proper place. All the Governor would have to do is veto the legislation.
Senate leadership complains about the Governor having authority to appropriate twenty BILLION DOLLARS in federal funds that come to the state without any legislative over sight and they complain about the abuse of Executive orders. Now, they have decided through SB1003 to expand the power of the Governor to raise and distribute funds without approval or oversight of the legislature. Their actions beg the question whether they have the will to either pass the increases themselves or cut the spending to deal with this budget deficit.
Finally, President Burns knows that SB1003 skirts around the intent of Proposition 108 which was passed by the voters. He knows that Prop 108 requires the legislature to get 2/3rd of the vote in both houses of the legislature to increase taxes and fees.
Please call (602) 926-5999 or email your Senator and Representatives. Ask them to Vote NO on SB1003 that would give fee (tax) setting authority to the governor and his/her appointed, unelected agency heads."
Will the national government put American health care under the control of Congress and Washington bureaucrats? What will bureaucratic decisions made in Washington mean forelderly patients? What will happen to the quality of health services in the US? What will happen to doctor-patient relationships? Is there any way to stop the march of government-controlled health care?
Closer to home, will Gov. Jan Brewer succeed in getting the Legislature to put a billion-dollar sales tax increase on the Arizona ballot? What would that mean for taxpayers? What would that mean for recipients of government services? What will that mean for education reform? How will Arizona taxpayers respond?
You have a lot of questions for your state legislators and for policy experts. And we’ve got some answers. Thursday night, September 24, from 7:00 to 9:00 pm, the Arizona Chapter ofAmericans for Prosperity Foundation is sponsoring a Taxpayer Town Hall meeting in the Community Room at the Gila Community College Payson campus, 201 N. Mud Springs Road, about a mile east of the intersection of the Beeline Highway and 260.
Confirmed speakers will include Senator Sylvia Allen, AFPF Arizona director Tom Jenney,health care policy expertDr.Byron Schlomach of the Goldwater Institute, and education policy expertDr. Matthew Ladner of the Goldwater Institute. AFPF has invited a spokesperson to defend proposals for more government involvement in the health-care sector, and all LD5 state legislators have been invited to participate in this nonpartisan event. We have also extended an invitation to Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick. We have made room in the schedule for more than an hour of Q&A from the public.
If you have not done so already, RSVP to tjenney@afphq.org, and let us know if you’re coming and how many friends you are planning to bring. There is no charge for this event.
It is very important for Tea Partiers and other high country taxpayers to come to this event. Much is at stake in the national health care policy battle, and in the budget battles down at the Arizona state Capitol.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, no doubt weary after the grueling Congressional Monetary Policy hearings last week, stepped back into the media spotlight to promote the Federal Reserve's alleged goals of fixing the economy it claims it had no part in damaging.
Edmund L. Andrews of the New York Timesreports on Ben's recent appearance in a townhall-style forum on PBS, moderated by Jim Lehrer:
Like a political candidate on the campaign trail - indeed, his four-year term expires in January - Mr. Bernanke fielded questions from local residents and tried to rebuff charges that the Fed was either conspiring with big banks, stifling free-market capitalism or possibly doing both at the same time.
The spokesman for the government-licensed central bank, in objective form, related to the average citizen by claiming to have "held his nose" at the decision to save the politically-connected, Fed-associated banks at the expense of small businesses and the long-term health of the American economy:
"I'm as disgusted by it as you are," he told the audience of 190 people. "Nothing made me more angry than having to intervene, particularly in a few cases where companies took wild bets."
The report also mentioned the strong, bi-partisan movement led by Congressman Ron Paul to Audit the Fed.
More than 250 lawmakers have signed a bill sponsored by Mr. Paul that would allow the Government Accountability Office to "audit" the Fed's decisions on monetary policy - a move that Fed officials see as a direct threat to their political independence in carrying out their central mission of setting interest rates.
Watch Bernanke's disingenuous comments on HR 1207 and S 604 here.
Seeing a Federal Reserve Chairman coming out of the shadows and into broad daylight to defend the money-printing temple is a testament to your hard work in pushing for legitimate transparency of the central bank. The Fed, for the first time in its history, is under fire. So don't let the warm, smiling faces of the Creature from Jekyll Island fool you into thinking that the Fed is here to help. History (think: Great Depression) demonstrates that they most certainly are not.
REAL ID ACTION ALERT: The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs will be having hearings on the PASS Act S. 1261.The PASS Act WILL NOT REPEAL REAL ID as it is being billed. It will only repeal certain portions like Title ii and in the end be worse than REAL ID once the PASS Act is inserted. REAL ID will REMAIN Federal law and will be stronger than before if passed.
Both the ACLU and the ACLJ are opposing the Real ID Act and the PASS Act. (The ACLU and the ACLJ are the most prominent legal organizations on the "left" and "right" respectively.)
Special interests groups are trying to force Democrats, Independents and Republicans to support this legislation. States have been and are working to ensure driver's licenses are secure documents and have document integrity. The federal government, in spite of the states, wants to set international standards that are not needed. The federal government wants control of your state driver's license. The federal government is bribing states to go along with its plans.
Our freedom and our rights are not for sale.
Some governors want to take the bribe money. The First, Fourth and Tenth Amendments are under attack.The Second Amendment will follow. This is not a partisan issue. All Americans must take action now.
The PASS Act does not repeal the Real ID Act. It does repeal provisions of the Real ID Act; those provisions that are included in Title II of the Real ID Act 2005. The Real ID Act is still intact and is federal law.
The PASS Act contains many of the most egregious aspects of the Real ID Act; including the requirement for a digital facial image/photograph that will be mandated to be internationally facial recognition compatible.
There is not a federal law that prohibits the simultaneous use of CCTV/surveillance cameras and facial recognition technology in real time.
The PASS Act will do nothing to provide a higher level of National security. Under the provisions of the PASS Act the documents used to obtain a driver's license are not authenticated. These documents are called "breeder" documents.
Although requirements for new databases and the linking of databases are not part of the PASS Act the fact remains through aamva.net and NLETS states can still have information contained in their state Department of Motor Vehicles made available to both federal and international law enforcement agencies without a court order.
Two international agencies (AAMVA and the ICAO, an agency of the United Nations) were involved in U.S. policy and law - the Real ID Act 2005 and the newly proposed PASS Act. DHS has called AAMVA the "hub" and "backbone" of the Real ID Act. On AAMVA's own web-site it proclaims it is an international organization that serves law enforcement and motor vehicle administrators.
Both the Real ID Act and the PASS Act result in Americans being enrolled into a single global biometric identification system that links a person's body to their ability to buy and sell.
The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs will be considering the legislation very soon. The committee members and their phone numbers are listed below. Ask your neighbors, friends, co-workers, relatives and everyone else you have contact with to make the calls as well.
16 CALLS, 16 MINUTES, FOR YOUR FREEDOM AND FUTURE GENERATIONS FREEDOM.
Senator Lieberman 202-224-4041 Chairman
Senator Collins 202-224-2523
Senator Akaka 202-224-6361
Senator Bennet 202-224-5852
Senator Burris 202-224-2854
Senator Carper 202-224-2441
Senator Coburn 202-224-5754
Senator Ensign 202-224-6244
Senator Graham 202-224-5972
Senator Landrieu 202-224-5824
Senator Levin 202-224-6221
Senator McCain 202-224-2235
Senator McCaskill 202-224-6154
Senator Pryor 202-224-2354
Senator Tester 202-224-2644
Senator Voinovich 202-224-3353
FOR MORE ON REAL ID, THE PASS ACT, BIOMETRICS, & INTERNATIONAL LAWS/REGS AND DATABASES GO TO www.stoprealidcoalition.comthey have an action packet as well as several other pieces of information you can review.
Well we are all finally back from the c4l conference in Las Vegas and it was a great weekend
Friday we checked out the liberty fest conference that was being held in Bally's casino at the same time and browsed the displays and merchant booths.The first booth that you see when you enter the vendors area was a beautiful display by the campaign for liberty.So we stopped by and to say hello and show them our own hand made sign.
Then we found the c4l conference area and set up a table for Arizona c4l.Here we featured the photo radar ballot initiative that we are helping with and prop 13which is a property tax measure.Also on our table was a collection of hand made signs that we had used early on in Ron Paul's presidential campaign.We drew quite a crowd and then others started adding things to our table until it was quite packed and colorful
Joan Lewis our Navajo county coordinator even found herself being interviewed on film (which we will post when that video becomes available
Now on to the main event.Friday night the main conference room was opened up and was packed with c4l members and liberty fest members.Mark Skousen (liberty fest producer) started the proceedings followed by a speech from Tom Woods (author of the book meltdown) I must say that Tom was a great speaker.Funny,informative and i shall be buying his book now. Then the highlight of course was seeing Ron Paul back on stage as he was joined on stage initially by his wife Carol , who introduced Ron as the love of her life.
Hopefully video's will soon be available for those of you who were unable to make the trip so you can hear his speech for yourself.
Saturday and Sunday were the c4l conference classes where we covered a variety of topics that in essence were designed to get us prepared,trained and ready for when the next Ron Paul type candidate runs for office and needs our help.I believe these classes will also be available for review on line once they have been edited etc so i won't go into the details here.I met a lot of new faces from Arizona who are with the c4l and all were keen to get rolling and start doing events,so to those of you i say....watch this space and check the calendars on your district pages.
Of course it wasn't all about classes and conferences ( it was Vegas ) We found ourselves meeting up with Adam Kokesh ( who is running for congress in Santa Fe New Mexico and is a great guy !and bumping into peter Schiff ,who we have all seen on the news recently telling us what's really going on in our economic world
To wrap up i just wanted to remind everyone that Arizona will be holding a convention end of September (dates not concrete yet) where we will be organising ourselves after becoming incorporated .We will be the first state for c4l to do this.Please keep checking the state pages and keep in touch with your regional coordinator for details.
The dangerous HB2252 (International Transportation and Port Infrastructure) seems to have sneaked by us in committees while the Budget was being battled. It is now down to the wire for Third Reading (the final vote in the Az. House) tomorrow.
This bill helps create a way for a North American Union-styled Canamex Corridor through America, with an ultra-deep water port near Guaymas and "port" and warehouse facilities at the Az. border to bring in slave-labor and subsidized goods from all over the world for all America.
1. The bill would has been amended to sound more innocuous, but actually gives the Department of Transportation and the State more power to integrate the governments of Arizona and Mexico through the Arizona/Mexico commission, empowering this commission with more authority and ability to accomplish merger.
2. It gives the Arizona international development authority the ability to enter what is basically treaty with other nations, with an emphasis on Mexico in the legislation
3. Creates a new bureaucracy with the directive to create new "tolls, fees, rents and other charges imposed by the authority". "Other charges" gives this unelected body not only the specified powers but unlimited ability to raise taxes in whatever form they want.
4. The bill authorizes the port authority to create new public debt through bonds
5. And finally, the whole idea of an Arizona port authority is part of the integration of the nations through a state by state initiative as described by Robert Pastor at a North American Governance meeting at ASU in Feb of 2007.
Take a trip down memory lane with two very different economists.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke (2005-2007):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INmqvibv4UU
During the same time frame, here's Peter Schiff (2006-2007; Youtube has plenty more dating back farther):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I0QN-FYkpw
Where do we stand just a few years after these opinions were aired? Ben Stein has publicly apologized to Peter Schiff, while the Federal Reserve's unprecendented power grab during a crisis it made possible has led to more than half the House of Representatives signing up in support of Auditing the Fed!
Renowned investor Jim Rogers (pictured left) says that the rally in stocks and the dollar will soon end, thanks to the Federal Reserve's massive easing policy. "I'm not buying shares anywhere," he tells Bloomberg TV. "I'm not selling short yet. But...if it keeps going like this, I'll have to start selling short eventually. I don't see the stock market as a great place to be in the next two to three years, maybe even the next decade." As for the dollar, "we're going to have a currency crisis probably this fall or the fall of 2010," Rogers says. "It's been building up for a long time. We've had a huge rally in the dollar, an artificial rally. ... The U.S. dollar is a very flawed currency." Bonds also are overvalued, he says. And where does Rogers see investment opportunities? Commodities, as he has argued for months. "The only place I know where the fundamentals are getting better is raw materials," he explains. "We're going to have serious food shortages. ... Prices are going to go through the roof." Whether the economy rebounds or not, "commodities are going to lead it," Rogers says.
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) We found ourselves meeting up with Adam Kokesh ( who is running for congress in Santa Fe New Mexico and is a great guy !
and bumping into peter Schiff ,who we have all seen on the news recently telling us what's really going on in our economic world 
tells Bloomberg TV. "I'm not selling short yet. But...if it keeps going like this, I'll have to start selling short eventually. I don't see the stock market as a great place to be in the next two to three years, maybe even the next decade." As for the dollar, "we're going to have a currency crisis probably this fall or the fall of 2010," Rogers says. "It's been building up for a long time. We've had a huge rally in the dollar, an artificial rally. ... The U.S. dollar is a very flawed currency." Bonds also are overvalued, he says. And where does Rogers see investment opportunities? Commodities, as he has argued for months. "The only place I know where the fundamentals are getting better is raw materials," he explains. "We're going to have serious food shortages. ... Prices are going to go through the roof." Whether the economy rebounds or not, "commodities are going to lead it," Rogers says.
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