Grandview Area Republican Club

I just paid a visit to the BMV and paid Strickland’s new “its-not-a-tax-hike” fee on my renewals.  $74.50 was the price tag to legally drive the car that I OWN around Ohio (birthdays are expensive).  How are we supposed to get Ohioans to spend money here and create jobs in their businesses when we are taxed (or should I say fee-ed) this much?  In the past 5 years, Ohio has lost 105,000 taxpayers and $1.4 billion a year in adjusted gross income (source).

Here’s an article from yesterday’s Columbus Dispatch about these BMV fees: Driver’s license late fees piling up

Check out this article from the Dispatch back in April 2009 when our Democrat Governor and Democrat controlled House passed the budget: Ohio’s state budget uses fees to forgo new taxes.  So Ted Strickland technically doesn’t raise taxes, but FEES ARE TAXES.  

So I went online to www.feesaretaxes.com and found American’s for Prosperity are doing another rally at the statehouse on January 30^th.  I am going – anyone else with me?

 Ohio Taxed to the Max Rally

Please join Americans for Prosperity, OH (AFP-OH), the Columbus Tea Party, Ohio Freedom Alliance, Citizens United to End Ohio’s Estate Tax, Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes, and Ohio Citizens Accounting Standards Board at a rally demanding that Ohio’s legislature get spending under control and stop treating taxpayers like an ATM every time they run out of cash. The rally will be held in front of a 15-foot-tall inflatable ATM machine to drive the point home that Ohio’s citizens are “Already Taxed to the Max.”

Date: Saturday, January 30th

Time: 2pm

Here’s another great site to understand Ohio’s poor tax structure: http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/state/50.html

On Tuesday, December 15th at the Franklin County Republican Party Victory Reception, the GARC was awarded the Lincoln Award for Overall Excellence and Outstanding Club of the Year 2009.

This award is the result of the hard work and dedication of all GARC members who have made the organization a vibrant, energetic, grassroots, philanthropic, social and educational club.  While we were only founded in February, the GARC has emerged onto the county political scene as a genuine force within a rising national mainstream conservative movement.

Join us in celebrating this award and the holiday season at our GARC Christmas Party this Thursday, December 17th at 7PM at the Quarry Club House on W. 5th Avenue just West of the Scioto River.

The GARC Fundraiser, held at the Capital Club on September 30, was a huge success! Hundreds of dollars were raised to support the Grandview Area Republican Club! Here are a selection of photos from the evening’s events!

GARC President Jennifer LuPiba’s letter to the editor about President Obama’s Health Care Reform suggestions was printed in the Friday, August 14, edition of the Columbus Dispatch! Congradulations to Jen on a well thought out argument being printed for consideration by Central Ohio!

Check out the letter here: http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/editorials/stories/2009/08/14/LuPiba_ART_08-14-09_A10_5HEOJE7.html?sid=101

President Barack Obama proposes to have government run our health-care system, delving into the highly personal decisions of choice of provider as well as quality of care. His assurances that a government-run plan would strengthen our current system while driving down costs don’t hold up.

The president claims patients would be able to keep their choice of provider under his plan, but independent analyses have concluded that millions of Americans would lose their private coverage once a government-run plan is introduced to the marketplace. Recently the president himself admitted that there is nothing in his plan that would prevent employers from dropping the health coverage they currently offer when faced with unfair competition from a government-run plan.

Obama’s promise that care would be strengthened under his plan also is misleading. As more of the population is forced onto the government-run plan, bureaucrats in Washington would have no choice but to ration care and mandate what they consider “best practices” to try to keep costs down.

And the president’s plan would do nothing to lower costs. It would actually drive costs up. The initial price tag for the president’s plan is somewhere between $1 trillion and $2 trillion. The president and Democrats in Congress are considering proposals that would substantially increase taxes on small businesses and the middle class and implement cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. Everyone knows that interjecting government control never has led to lower costs.

Readers should carefully consider the implications of allowing the government to control this very personal part of our lives. A government takeover of our health-care system is the wrong answer.”

JENNIFER LuPIBA
Columbus

What do YOU think? Post your comments below!

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