Both did their part in lowering taxes and keeping Florida as conservative as possible.

Bill submitted by Representative Elizabeth Porter:
CS/HB 733 – Tax on Sales, Use, and Other Transactions. Specifies period during this year when sale of clothing, wallets, bags, school supplies, & textbooks are exempt from tax; provides exceptions; authorizes DOR to adopt emergency rules; provides appropriation.
CS/HB 1127 – Abortions. Requires that ultrasound be performed on woman obtaining abortion; requires that ultrasound be reviewed with patient before woman gives informed consent for abortion procedure.

Bill submitted by State Senator Steve Oelrich:
CS/SB 886: Motor Vehicles – Motor Vehicles; Revises penalties for unlawful operation of a sound-making device in a motor vehicle.

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Normal location for meetings is: down town office (across from Olustee Park) 134 N. Marion Ave.

The agenda for this meeting will be: Review of last meeting, report of “switch the vote” campaign, discussion of next event.
The public is always invited to attend.

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The state’s Agency for Persons with Disabilities is running a $170 million deficit, prompting Scott late Thursday to issue an emergency order immediately slashing payments to caregivers by 15 percent. The reductions threaten services to thousands of Floridians with Down Syndrome, autism, cerebral palsy and other disabilities and could close some group homes, advocates warn.

But a Scott spokesman said Friday that the cuts were needed to halt runaway costs.

“The APD budget was heading for a cliff,” Scott spokesman Brian Burgess said Friday. “But these rate cuts should help turn the agency away from that cliff.”

Leaders of disabled residents reacted swiftly — condemning Scott’s emergency cuts as “draconian” and “insensitive.” Many said the closure of key programs and layoffs are inevitable.

Residents of Florida who pay for this service with their taxes want to know how this program got so abused. One resident said “This is ridiculous. How can this get so out of control? It sounds to me the governor needs to investigate in to this matter and fire some people.”

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Democrats    Republicans

• American Fed. of State, County, & Municipal Employees        $40,281,900      $547,700
• Intel Brotherhood of Electrical Workers                                      29,705,600    679,000
• National Education Association                                                    27,679,300    2,005,200
• Service Employees International Union                                      26,368,470    98,700
• Communication Workers of America                                           26,305,500    125,300
• Service Employees International Union                                      26,252,000    1,086,200
• Laborers Union                                                                                 25,734,000    2,138,000
• American Federation of Teachers                                                 25,682,800    200,000
• United Auto Workers                                                                       25,082,200   182,700
• Teamsters Union                                                                              24,926,400    1,822,000
• Carpenters and Joiners Union                                                      24,094,100    2,658,000
• Machinists & Aerospace Workers Union                                    23,875,600    226,300
• United Food and Commercial Workers Union                         23,182,000    334,200
• AFL-CIO                                                                                            17,124,300    713,500
• Sheet Metal Workers Union                                                          16,347,200    342,800
• Plumbers & Pipefitters Union                                                       14,790,000    818,500
• Operating Engineers Union                                                           13,840,000    2,309,500
• Airline Pilots Association                                                                12,806,600    2,398,300
• International Association of Firefighters                                     12,421,700    2,685,400
• United Transportation Workers                                                     11,807,000    1,459,300
• Ironworkers Union                                                                            11,638,900    936,000
• American Postal Workers Union                                                    11,633,100    544,300
• Nat’l Active & Retired Fed. Employees Association                    8,135,400    2,294,600
• Seafarers International Union                                                         6,726,800    1,281,300

(Source: Center for Responsive Politics, Washington, D.C.)


Amount from Unions to the Democratic party: $486,440,870

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2. Did you know that . . . since July 1 of last year (2010), Americans have been paying a 10 percent excise tax on all indoor tanning services?

3. Did you know that . . . starting in 2018, if your health insurance is “too good” or considered a “Cadillac” plan, then you will incur a new 40 percent tax on your health plan?

4. Did you know that . . . Obamacare has 21 new or higher taxes in it, totaling over $500 billion in increased taxes going to the government over 10 years?

5. Did you know that . . . beginning in 2014, individuals and families that do not purchase “qualifying” – as defined by federal bureaucrats — health insurance will be forced to pay a yearly tax penalty?

6. Did you know that . . . 7 tax hikes in Obamacare directly break President Obama’s “firm pledge” not to raise any form of taxes on individuals making less than $200,000 per year and families making less than $250,000 per year?

7. Did you know that . . . the capital gains tax rate under Obamacare will rise to 23.8 percent starting in 2012? That is a 59 percent increase from its current rate.

8. Did you know that . . . in 2013, those Americans facing the highest medical bills and the least ability to pay for them will find their ability to deduct medical expenses is further limited (medical expenses must be reduced by 10 percent of income under Obamacare, rather than current law’s 7.5 percent)

9. Did you know that . . . beginning in 2014, businesses with over 50 employees will be forced to offer health coverage for everyone, or pay a hefty tax for each employee?

10. Did you know that . . . in 2013, Obamacare caps the amount individuals and families can put in their flexible savings accounts at $2500? Currently there is no cap and these accounts are used for a myriad of health expenses including paying upwards of $14,000 in tuition to special needs schools for some parents?

(Report courtesy of The Blaze.com) Read the whole article here

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Normal location for meetings is: down town office (across from Olustee Park) 134 N. Marion Ave.

The agenda for this meeting will be: Review of last meeting, report of Lincoln Dinner, discussion of next event.
The public is always invited to attend.

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