| 1. We Must Fix Our Self-Destructive Tax Code - by President Donald Trump via Journal Sentinel Our self-destructive tax code costs Americans millions of jobs, trillions of dollars and billions of hours spent on compliance and paperwork.To fix this, we have made the foundation of our job creation agenda fundamentally reforming our tax code for the first time in more than 30 years. I want to work with Congress on a plan that is pro-growth, pro-jobs, pro-worker and pro-American. Our plan will dramatically reduce income taxes for American workers and families. It will nearly double the standard deduction to help families get ahead. It will make our complex tax code more simple and fair. It will put money back into the pockets of the people who earned it. And it will bring back American jobs by making our businesses competitive once again. Read more here...   Texans are suffering. Texans need help.In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, hundreds of thousands have been left homeless, displaced, and broken. Many families are returning to their hometowns, some still separated from loved ones, to face the heartbreaking reality of losing everything they spent a lifetime working for. For many children, parents, and grandparents of Texas, the road to recovery will be a long and difficult one. Our neighbors in Texas need relief. It's on Congress to do our job and give it to them. Read more here... 3. Rep. Brat: 'Middle Class Is Very Smart' And Won't Abide a Bad Debt Ceiling Bill - via The Daily Caller Congress should approve funding for Hurricane Harvey recovery and raise the debt ceiling, but needs to address government spending habits to fix America’s debt crisis, Virginia Republican Rep. Dave Brat said Tuesday.“You can do both at the same time. We can take care of Texas — and our hearts go out to them — and you can raise the debt ceiling in the short run if you show the American people that you’re serious about the future of fiscal sanity in this country, which we haven’t been for decades,” Brat said on a conference call with the conservative FreedomWorks. Read more here... 4. Expand America's Broadband Internet Right now, there are 23 MILLION Americans who don’t have access to broadband Internet, just because of where they live. Connecting them to the Internet would help put more money in their pockets, create new American jobs, and further grow America’s economy.Thankfully we can achieve all this by simply changing an FCC regulation. By getting the government out of the way and allowing the market to work, all of America will get better, faster, and cheaper broadband Internet. That’s why FreedomWorks is asking you to contact these senators and urge them to support expanding America’s broadband Internet today. Take Action Here! 5. Fix Payday Loans with More Competition - via Competitive Enterprise Institute The rule would be absolutely devastating to the industry and the vulnerable consumers it serves, potentially wiping out 75 percent of the 20,000 payday loan shops across the country. There are around 12 million Americans who use payday loans each year. It is naive to think that when this legitimate option disappears, that they will not be driven to more harmful practices, like defaulting on loans or borrowing from illegal loan sharks.Eliminating the already limited choices of vulnerable consumers will do more harm than good. There are multiple surveys confirming that the users of payday loans widely approve of the option. But this isn’t to say that payday loans are an ideal form of financing. They are indeed high-fee, high-risk loans that one would rather not pursue. But simply regulating them out of existence does nothing to solve this problem. So how can we improve them? Read more here... Jason Pye Vice President of Legislative Affairs, FreedomWorks |
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