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AX the TAX, a highly successful grassroots political group is pledging $250,000 to fight a new proposal to establish a regional transportation authority for the Tampa Bay area that would include Pinellas, Pasco and Hillsborough County. "The new urbanists and the tax and spend bureaucrats just don't get it. Rail is a two-hundred year old technology with a new millennium price tag that only serves 1% of the traveling public. The only mobility that occurs is billions of our dollars moving from the public treasury into the pockets of the vested special interests," stated Doug Guetzloe, Founder and Chairman of...

At about 1 pm (till 3 pm) today TN Republican and I conducted the first unofficial action of the E. TN chapter. We stood next to Cumberland Avenue in front of the University Center where local politicians and President Shumaker explained why we just NEED an income tax, whether nor not it was constitutional. They are going to shut the university down if a budget doesn't pass by this weekend. This, of course, is a blatant scare tactic to motivate the students and their parents--who are often campaign doners--to support an IT. This is especially obvious when one realizes that...

We have a great opportunity here to change some minds and get the word out about our corrupt leadership in Nashville. This is especially critical since our legislature is determining whether or not Tennessee will slide down the trash chute of socialism with the forced raising of an unconstitutional income tax. In East Tennessee we have two bastions of liberalism (UT-K and UT-C) surrounded by the most conservative part of the state. Definitely choice targets for counterprotests and FReeping. Here at UT-Knoxville, we are constantly bombarded by liberal Progressive Student Alliance nonsense, and it is only made worse by the...