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Over the last decade the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has found it increasingly difficult to keep its head above water financially, often posting annual losses in the billions. A steep decline of mail volume due to the rise of online communications has reduced USPS’s role in the market place. As the Postal Service’s fiscal instability has grown, so have calls for USPS reform. Potential reforms… → Read More
A new study release by the Manhattan Institute last week criticized the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) for their flawed analysis of the Clean Power Plan (CPP). Last August, the EPA released the final version of the CPP, which is projected to kill thousands of jobs, reduce GDP, and increase energy prices. As one would expect, the unelected bureaucrats at the EPA failed to present an… → Read More
At a Senate Finance Committee hearing this week, committee members examined the roll energy tax policy plays in both hindering and helping U.S. consumers and businesses. While a number of topics were addressed, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) used the hearing to deliver statements speaking out against a federal carbon tax. In Chairman Hatch’s remarks, he made it clear that… → Read More
This week the House is slated to vote on H.Con.Res.112 introduced by Rep. Charles W. Boustany (R-La.) that would put Congress on the record in opposition to President Obama’s proposed $10 per barrel tax on oil. With Obama’s 2016 proposal of a $10 per barrel oil tax, Boustany’s resolution would be a positive step toward protecting low to middle income Americans and businesses from yet another… → Read More
Americans for Tax Reform encourages all members of the Senate to support Sen. Blunt’s carbon tax resolution that expresses the sense of Congress that a Carbon tax will be detrimental to American families and businesses. In a recent letter of support for Sen. Blunt’s Resolution, ATR President Grover Norquist explained how harmful a carbon tax would be: “A carbon tax would kill jobs in the United… → Read More
With less than a year left in his presidency, President Obama is looking to leave yet another harmful legacy behind. With the use of executive agencies such as the EPA, Obama is trying to carry out his own agenda with the help of the unelected EPA bureaucrats. In the last year, the EPA has been over-regulating large quantities of energy sources, most of which are relied on by for low to… → Read More
The 2016 Presidential campaign is one unlike any before and we are certainly witnessing the change of the Democratic electorate. With presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) brining a new form of “outsider” energy to the DNC, Hillary Clinton is certainly facing much adversity on a large number of her stances from both Republican and Democrat voters. → Read More
In a recent letter to House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), 60 organizations, including Americans for Tax Reform, voiced their opposition to President Obama and the EPA’s recent ozone regulations. → Read More