Nov. 16, 2017, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising President Donald Trump’s call for reciprocal trade agreements overseas:

“President Trump is exactly right in calling for America’s trade deals to be reciprocal. The concept that America’s interests should be sidelined for the rest of the world is no longer viable or smart. To be clear, reciprocal arrangements are ones which meet the interests of both parties involved and no one should feel threatened by having honest trade deals, which benefits everyone. It is absurd for developed nations like China to still be treated as if they were a third world country. And it is equally absurd for nations across the world to be allowed to engage in currency manipulation which serves as an extra tariff on American goods. President Trump once again has shown that he understands the key economic elements that have led to our massive trade deficit and Americans should take heart that he will be fighting to correct them.”

Attachments:

“Reciprocity is the only sustainable path to free trade,” By Rick Manning, Nov. 15, 2017 at http://netrightdaily.com/2017/11/reciprocity-sustainable-path-free-trade/

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 Nov. 15, 2017, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today praising Senate lawmakers for including a provision in the tax bill to prevent tax avoidance through reinsurance by foreign insurers:

“The Senate’s inclusion of a provision preventing tax avoidance through reinsurance by foreign insurers is a positive step forward in creating tax equity between foreign and domestic insurers. Foreign insurance companies currently avoid paying taxes in the U.S. through a complex offshore scheme known as affiliate reinsurance whereby profits are transferred to a tax haven, and then reinsurance is purchased from the affiliate. We urge the Senate to maintain this provision in the tax bill and to close this loophole.”

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Nov. 14, 2017, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging the House Rules Committee to adopt an amendment by U.S. Rep. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) that would prevent tax avoidance through reinsurance by foreign insurers:

“One way foreign insurance companies have avoided paying taxes in the U.S. is through a legal tax dodge called affiliate reinsurance whereby profits are transferred to a tax haven, and then reinsurance is purchased from the affiliate. Fortunately, Congressman Ted Budd has submitted an amendment to the House Rules Committee that will restore tax equity between domestic and foreign insurers. We urge the committee to add this needed provision to the tax bill and close this loophole once and for all.”

Attachments:

Amendment to Rules Committee Print 115-39, Offered by Mr. Budd of North Carolina, Nov. 14, 2017 at https://getliberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/BUDD_035_xml.pdf

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Nov. 10, 2017, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging tax cuts for every American who pays taxes and significant budget reforms to rein in the $20 trillion debt:

“The U.S. is coming off the worst decade for economic growth since the GDP was invented as a measure, even worse than the Great Depression. To get out of this funk, one of the things Congress must be focused on is cutting taxes across the board, not robbing Peter to pay Paul, raising taxes on some Americans to give tax cuts to other Americans. Raising taxes in some of the most highly taxed areas in the country among wealthier Americans is not a recipe for growth. Individual tax cuts were the centerpiece of the 1981 Reagan tax cuts, and the major reason for the low-inflation growth explosion of the 1980s. That is the model we should be following, where everyone’s taxes, including business taxes, are cut.

“Secondly, the U.S. has surpassed $20 trillion debt and the current budget deficit is getting larger once again after a few years of falling. Given the massive emergency spending demands, Congress needs to recognize that the budget which they passed is a ceiling not a floor for spending. President Trump in his budget offered $4.5 trillion of real spending cuts over 10 years. Why aren’t those being implemented, if only to offset the emergency spending increases? Where are the Republican proposals in Congress to cut spending by trillions of dollars? During the primary, Trump was supposed to be the fiscal liberal and it’s turned out that he is a fiscal hawk compared to what we’re seeing out of Congress. Cut spending, or go home. We’re going broke with $20 trillion of debt and growing because a weak Republican majority is unwilling to do the only responsible thing they can do about it, and that’s cut spending.”

Attachments:

“Bigger tax cut needed for Trump to get the economy moving again,” By Robert Romano, Nov. 10, 2017 at http://netrightdaily.com/2017/11/bigger-tax-cut-needed-trump-get-economy-moving/

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Nov. 8, 2017, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising Attorney General Jeff Sessions for leading the charge to apply robust antitrust scrutiny to the AT&T-Time Warner merger by requiring either the sale of Directv or Turner Broadcasting, which includes CNN:

“Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ leadership of the Department of Justice has ensured that concerns over the AT&T-Time Warner merger are being heavily scrutinized. President Trump expressed these same concerns in Oct. 2016 when he was running for president and Attorney General Sessions is making certain that the proposed merger meets the letter and spirit of antitrust laws. The reported demand that either Turner Broadcasting, which includes CNN, or Directv be removed from the deal is reasonable in order to prevent to keep separate news content from dominant content delivery vehicles.”

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Nov. 7, 2017, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement reacting to the revelation that Fusion GPS CEO Glenn Simpson met with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya both before and after her meeting with Donald Trump, Jr. in June 2016:

“Today’s report that Fusion GPS CEO Glenn Simpson met with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya both before and after her meeting with Donald Trump, Jr. in June 2016 is breathtaking. It is clear the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign paid for a consultant who was using Russians in an attempt to create the appearance of collusion through false offers of dirt on Hillary Clinton. Even the Closseau-like Robert Mueller should be able to piece this together and see that Fusion GPS is at the center of his investigation into the 2016 election.

“It is also reasonable to assume that the Clinton campaign did not receive any information from that meeting that they deemed relevant in the campaign, except for the meeting itself, or else they would have used it. If taking a meeting with Russians is deemed a criminal act, then Simpson and everyone else who used Russian sources for the dossier, including the Clinton campaign since they paid for it, should apparently be in jail. It should also be clear to anyone with an ounce of honest blood flowing through their veins that the entire foundation of the Mueller investigation is based on a manufactured concept. If taking a meeting is criminalized, no one in Washington, D.C. can be exempt from Mueller’s witch hunt. It’s time to close Robert Mueller’s desperate search for criminality where none exists.”

Attachments:

“Why did the Russians try to deliver ‘dirt’ on Hillary Clinton to the Trump campaign—three times? And what did Fusion GPS know about it? Was the Trump campaign being set up?” By Robert Romano, Oct. 31, 2017 at http://netrightdaily.com/2017/10/russians-try-deliver-dirt-hillary-clinton-trump-campaign-three-times-fusion-gps-know-trump-campaign-set/

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Nov. 6, 2017, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement blasting CNN for butchering a quote from President Donald Trump in Japan speaking to business leaders there where he actually said “I also want to recognize the business leaders in the room whose confidence in the United States — they’ve been creating jobs — you have such confidence in the United States, and you’ve been creating jobs for our country for a long, long time. Several Japanese automobile industry firms have been really doing a job. And we love it when you build cars — if you’re a Japanese firm, we love it — try building your cars in the United States instead of shipping them over” praising automakers for making cars in the U.S. into a quote where he was somehow criticizing them for not doing so:

“Once again, this is CNN, reporting an apple is a banana, turning a quote that clearly shows President Trump praising Japanese automakers for making cars in America for years into an allegation that he was unaware of that fact.

“Not even Hillary Clinton’s DNC would have tried to be this dishonest at the height of the campaign season.

“In light of this latest malfeasance by CNN, it is stunning that Time Warner, the owners of CNN, would expect their proposed merger with AT&T to be approved by the Department of Justice. The AT&T-Time Warner merger would provide a profit motive for the promotion of CNN’s fake news, and that would truly be bad for America.”

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