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Campaign Unavailable We're sorry, this alert is no longer available. If you would like to learn more about ways you can take action, please visit NTU's Taxpayer Action Center.The short explanation of this alert was: Obama & Co. are rushing to "do something" about the economy by pushing a government "stimulus bill" that would spend hundreds of billions of our tax dollars. They're singing the same old "big government is here to help" tune. Yet more government is likely to hurt -- not help -- our economy. After all, taxpayers will be stuck with the tab for this new spending, either now (through higher taxes) or later on (through higher debt).
If the 2008 financial industry bailout proved anything, it's that rushing to "do something" is irresponsible. Haste makes waste, and there's enough of that in government as it is.
Stimulus-boosters may counter that they're directing long-overdue money into supposedly "neglected" areas, but this premise is false. According to the National Taxpayers Union Foundation's VoteTally system, Congress adopted legislation to increase spending above the baseline in the areas of infrastructure, housing, disaster recovery, and energy assistance by $99 billion between 2001 and 2006. Washington has been indulgent, not neglectful, in doling out your cash.
To make matters worse, Obama has pledged to use the "stimulus money" to create 600,000 new government jobs (a 33 percent increase over current levels). Do you want to pay for the salaries, benefits, and pensions for 600,000 new federal bureaucrats? It's up to taxpaying Americans like you to tell Congress: "quit digging us into a fiscal hole!"
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