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Americans For Prosperity

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Americans for Prosperity: $60 Billion Sandy Aid Package 'A Disgrace'

A proposed $60.4 billion Hurricane Sandy disaster bill has its detractors, among then New Jersey's own Americans for Prosperity director.

A funding bill that would provide more than $60 billion in aid for the Hurricane Sandy recovery effort is currently being debated in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. The primary beneficiaries of the aid would be Connecticut, New York and New Jersey, three states that took the brunt of Sandy’s wrath and have seen damage estimates continue to rise well above President Barack Obama’s funding request. The bill has been divisive. In both the Senate and Congress, legislators are questioning the appropriations, the allocation of the funds, the total, and the need to approve the aid all at once. Despite their differences, the majority of the country’s elected leaders in Washington D.C. agree that, in some form, the victims of …

Sue

7:40 am on Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Lonegan is an infamous tea bagger, a legend in his own mind, and should take his ideas back where they belong, in the 18th century.   more ›

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Oil Money-Backed Advocacy Group Opposes Greenhouse Gas Initiative

Americans for Prosperity calls RGGI a cap-and-trade scheme.

In anticipation of a Thursday legislative vote that could push New Jersey back into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, Americans for Prosperity, a citizen advocacy group largely funded by oil magnates the Koch brothers, is challenging a report that touts the program's economic benefits. According to a study released last year by the Analysis Group, RGGI has resulted in $1.6 billion in tax revenue from the sale of carbon allowances, thousands of jobs and more than a billion dollars in economic benefits, including lower energy bills to consumers. However, Americans for Prosperity disputes the report, attributing it to "liberal politicians and environmentalists, desperate to keep the failing cap-and-trade program alive." It cites the …

Joe G

4:22 pm on Thursday, March 15, 2012

Global warming is a hoax used to justify further centralized government control over the economy and another means to separate citizens from their wealth. How many jobs would be created in NJ alone should the cost of energy come down? Every industry from transportation to entertainment to manufacturing are directly impacted by the cost of energy, taxing energy and coming up with elaborate carbon …   more ›

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