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News Monday May 17 - Click here to send Governor Bredesen an email and tell him to GIVE IT BACK or SAVE it!! News Wednesday May 12 - Give it back to its rightful owners!!! Bill Hobbs documents the $250 million overpayment by Tennessee Taxpayers......will it be returned to taxpayers so they can have it for their family budgets? NO, absolutely NOT, the 400 lobbyists at the state Capitol will see to that. News Tuesday May 4 - Knox county joins City of Knoxville in proposing tax hike, this time its a $30 increase in wheel tax!! News Monday May 3 - TAXPAYERS, its TIME to mobilize!! Blount County Tax Increase?? Looks like a definite possibility!! What about Kingsport and Sullivan County?? YEP, there too. and they are singing the blues in Tullahoma. News Saturday May 1 - 57 cent increase!!! Hamilton County could join Shelby County and Knoxville with a property tax increase of their own. Another local government which will force taxpayers to cut their personal budgets because they refuse to control the government budget. News Friday Apr 30 - Knoxville's new Mayor proposes the largest tax increase in history of city. News Monday Apr 26 - Mel Gibson discovered "what women want" and pollster Scott Rasmussen has discovered what taxpayers want Here and Here. They want LESS GOVERNMENT!!!!! More than tax cuts, more than balanced budgets...citizens want government out of their face!! News Wednesday Apr 21 - Watch out Shelby County taxpayers. The County government refuses to cut their budget so they are taking the easy way out. They will make taxpayers cut their family budgets by raising taxes....see how easy that is!!! News Monday Apr 19 - Rarely is hypocrisy shown more clearly than it was today in this article about Senator Kerry. Folks who want to raise our taxes always say its a "moral" decision and we should want to pay more for "public servces" and yet when given the opportunity to pay more they always decline. And while we are bashing politicians, the Senate is trying to pass a new tax bill that even the lobbysists are calling a "new level of sleaze." News Tuesday Apr 13 - Big, Big, Big event on Saturday June 26 6-9PM, here in Nashville...more info soon, stay tuned but MOST important: MARK your calendar today. Can you say "hornhonker reunion"? News Thursday Apr 8 - How do you destroy new jobs and keep small business from prospering?? RAISE TAXES?? YES, you get the pink cupie doll!! Read how our "friends" at the state capitol are going to raise taxes by $75 million. Bill Hobbs has the complete story. News Wed Apr 7 - TN House 2004 Preliminary Election Analysis-PDF file requires Adobe Acrobat Reader. News Sun Apr 4 - Tennessean columnist Gail Kerr gets it right!! All the PR about Metro Nashville schools and police cuts are typical tactics to soften up taxpayers....get your crying towels ready because you ain't heard nuttin yet. Before the dust clears in '05 they will convince you that the world is coming to an end and unless you fork over a tax increase you might as well just hang a sign around your neck that says, "Kick me!! I am a greedy taxpayer who doesn't care about kids and runaway crime." News Friday Apr 2 - People who work for government are public servants who work for us. They spend our money and enforce laws that have a profound affect on our lives. So they should see us as their employers and be accountable to us?? Sounds pretty straightforward....then why is a former IRS trial lawyer saying that "Fear of the audit is important," said Levy, the former IRS attorney. "It's like the police. They're not at every intersection, but the fear they might be keeps people from running red lights." News Monday Mar 29 - According to this Tennessean article the state is having second thoughts on the Lebanon-Nashville commuter rail. This is great news!! for taxpayers since virtually every commuter rail in the country is a blackhole for taxpayer money. They always cost MORE than projected and NEVER produce as much revenue as even the most pessimistic forecast. They are ALWAYS disasters for taxpayers News Monday Mar 29 - A compromise was reached concerning recording House committee votes in the General Assembly. The votes will now be recorded as "yes" unless the member specifically asked to be changed to "no" and they will NOT be posted on the internet. So it is typical of a luke warm, "nobody really wins" compromise that virtually always results when legislative bodies decide an issue. Its a bit of progress but the fight will continue for full disclosure since it is OUR government and OUR money. News Tuesday Mar 23 - Speaker Jimmy Naifeh has always "said" he was for open government and recorded votes. Everyone who watched him over the years knows this is a lie. He has done everything he can to stop open government bills. The AP reports that he continues to insult every person in Tennessee who cares about open government. News Tuesday Mar 23 - Taxpayer Bill of Rights update. TABOR was moved to the Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee today without an up or down vote in the Judiciary Committee. We will alert everyone as soon as its scheduled for a vote in Finance. News Saturday Mar 20 - ALERT!!! The Taxpayer Bill of Rights, TABOR, will be voted on in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tues Mar. 23. PLEASE contact the four senators listed HERE, thanks. News Thursday Mar 18 - Hope you feel good about funding pro-income tax propaganda because that is precisely what is happening at MTSU. Their "Tennesseans REALLY do want an income tax" survey is out. It is an outrageous abuse of taxpayer money. Here is our response. News Monday Mar 15 - Taxpayer Bill of Rights Update: Scheduled for a vote tommorrow but may be delayed again. We simply don't know at this point...more info as it becomes available. In the mean time you can think about all the tax increases you will have to look forward to in the next few years if Congress doesn't extend some of the temporary tax cuts. Here is a list from a conservative caucus and it doesn't look good. News Wednesday Mar 3 - We have had many more requests for the Grassroots Action Pack which we handed out at the meeting. Sooo...here tis. It has the list of all the Senators to contact with phone and fax numbers. Click HERE for PDF format and click HERE for Word DOC format. News Wednesday Mar 3 - WOW!! What a meeting, thanks to Everyone who turned out. The press that attended was very fair and complete with their coverage, Chattanooga TV, Nashville TV, Knoxville TV, Lots more here....the only large paper in the state that didn't cover the meeting in some way was...drum roll, the Tennessean. Nashville City Paper was also a No show. News Monday Feb 23 - Mark your calendar, put a string on your finger, do whatever it takes to attend The Taxpayer Bill of Rights Townhall Meeting on Tuesday March 2 at 10:00AM at the downtown Nashville Sheraton at 623 Union. We MUST have lots of taxpayers there to impress the General Assembly. Steve Moore, President of Club for Growth will be there. Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn will be there. The primary sponsors, Senator Jim Bryson and Representative Glen Casada will host along with NFIB, National Federation of Independent Businesses. Make your plans today and learn about the most important taxpayer issue to come along in a long, long time. If you need more info simply EMAIL or call 615-847-8050 News Monday Feb 16 - ALERT to TN Hunters and Fishermen..35% hike in licenses if you don't act now!! The VOTE is scheduled for Thursday, Feb 19....call your State REP NOW or pay 35% more in hunting and fishing licenses and fees. The General Assembly will vote on a bill to give away complete control over licenses and fees to political appointees on the TWRA board. These include some of the most powerful lobbyists in the state. Read how Speaker Naifeh is pushing this bill. YOUR elected reps will no longer control these fees. Click HERE for the details. Contact your STATE REP if you don't want HUGE hikes in hunting and fishing licenses. Click HERE for updates on the bill. News Monday Feb 9 - Governor Bredesen is about to announce his TennCare reforms. Click HERE to send him an email and demand REAL reform. Tell Governor Bredesen that EVERY Tennessee Voter expects REAL TennCare reform this time. No more broken promises, no more delays but REAL reform. The monumental boondogle of TennCare was not approved by either the General Assembly OR the voters and it has ravaged Tennessee taxpayers for more than 10 years. This MUST STOP. The mismanaged and bankrupt MCOs, the fraud and abuse, the arrogant TennCare administration, the courts which have given the so-called TennCare advocates much more power than citizens....all of this craziness must stop. News Wednesday Feb 5 - Shelby County/Memphis Alert!! An Illegal County Income Tax is again being considered. Contact your Shelby County Commissioners HERE and tell them NO on a county INCOME TAX. If you think your property taxes will go down if this illegal tax passes then we have a bridge in Brooklyn we would like to sell you..CHEAP!! You will then simply have the highest property taxes in the state PLUS an illegal income tax and another reason for residents to move out. News Tuesday Jan 27 - Thanks to Anita Spence, who rallied taxpayers, there will be NO WHEEL TAX for Decatur County!!! The county commission failed to muster the 2/3 majority needed to pass the resolution. The highlight of the night was when a citizen asked the commissioners why this wheel tax proposal wasn't put before the citizens for a vote like the previous two proposals which both failed? The answer was "I think you know the reason..", and of course we all did know....it would have been defeated like the other two in 1998 and 2002. News Monday Jan 26 - ALERT to Decatur County residents. Thats everyone in Parsons or Decaturville. You have TWICE voted down a Wheel Tax. Does the county commission care how you voted? NOPE, they are likely going to vote for a resolution that will cause you to pay a tax on every vehicle you own. They will do it unless you show up at the meeting Monday Jan. 26 at 6:30PM at the Courthouse in Decaturville...PLEASE COME TO THE MEETING and say NO to the wheel tax. News Monay Jan 19 - Attention Citizens of Metro Nashville, as a public service TTR would like to notify you that you are now a SECOND CLASS citizen. What? You weren't notified? Oh yes, the Tennessean is reporting that the Parks and Recreation Board has a list of elected officals: Metro Council members, State Reps and Senators etc, who don't have to pay to use Metro golf courses. The message is clear, they are VIP's and you, the taxpayer, are second class. Oh...it doesn't matter that citizens pay the taxes and citizens are the very people who grant to Metro Government its right to exist, you are still second class citizens. Enjoy! Here is a link to Metro Council members in case you might want to talk with them. News Monday Jan 12 - Here is the question: What is the tax on a gallon of gas in Tennessee to the nearest cent (more precisely it is - 21.4 cents TN tax + 18.4 cents Federal Tax = 39.8 cents total.) On a fairly typical fill-up of 12.5 gallons you pay almost $5.00 ($4.97 to be exact.) Please help spread the word by asking every person you know "What is the tax on a gallon of gas in Tennessee??" Answer 40 cents. News Tuesday Jan 6 - The answer is 40 cents, what is the question?? Please email us if you know. News Wednesday Dec 31 - Senator Alexander, the Tennessee Supreme Court now says that the state of Tennessee can NOT tax internet access (click here for the article). Would you NOW consider dropping your opposition to extending the federal ban on taxing internet access. How about helping the taxpayers instead of the tax collectors. You do work for US? News Monday December 29 - Tennessee is among a growing list of states and localities actively considering Taxpayer Bill of Rights laws. These laws, known by the acronym TABOR, put citizens back in control of how much of their family budget is spent on taxes. Taxpayers of the world UNITE!! Its about time!! News Tuesday December 16 - Jean Dowdy, a Manchester TN retiree, all by herself, got 800 citizens to sign a petition calling for a Manchester Taxpayer Bill of Rights...WAY TO GO JEAN!! News Friday December 12 - On May 14, 2001, then Governor Don Sundquist said "I want to assure our citizens that TennCare, the state's managed health care program for 1.3 million Tennesseans, is well on the road to recovery and should not be used as an excuse in the ongoing debate about our state's budget." Flash forward to today, TennCare threatening to devour state budget News Tuesday Dec 2 - Budget "cuts" Reality Check - TN Newspapers constantly tell us about budget "cuts"...what they don't talk about is TAX INCREASES!! News Wednesday Nov 26 - Senator Alexander and some of his Senate buddies apparently have been successful in preventing the extension of the Internet tax ban. Merry Christmas to your state and local state tax collectors. Perhaps some day we will have elected officals who care more about the "cost" to taxpayers rather than the "cost" to government. News Tuesday Nov 11 - HOLD ON TO YOUR WALLET-Here Come the taxes-Nicely/Bredesen already pushing gas tax increase. News Thursday Oct 24 - Our own Senator Alexander is holding up legislation that would make permanent the ban on internet access tax relief. PLEASE click here and ASK him to allow a Senate vote on this important bill which will otherwise expire at the end of the month. News Monday Oct 13 - 36 of 95 Tennessee counties raised property taxes this year and more is on the way!! News Monday Sept 22 - Do you think state agencies should be involved in designing media campaigns for tax increases?? Probably not....well, take a deep breath and sit down before you read THIS. News Monday Sept 8 - More and More and More local candidates support the RIGHT of taxpayers to directly vote on tax increases BEFORE they are imposed. News Monday August 25 - Alert for Jackson, TN. 25% property tax increases seem to be popular these days. Mayor Farmer in Jackson wants the City Council to approve a 25% increase. Thankfully councilmen are asking questions. Jackson residents Call your councilmen today!!!! Click here for a list of Councilmen and call, call, call!!. News Monday August 11 - Sumner County (Hendersonville, Gallatin, Portland, Whitehouse) Red Alert. A 25% property tax increase will be passed on Monday Aug 18 unless Sumner County residents contact their county commissioners. Click here for a list of Commissioners. News Monday August 4 - MP3 audio file: Extraordinary candor by past TN Majority leader Tommy Burnett on Teddy Bart's rountable on The Public Forum about how he was able to raise taxes so often when he was in the General Assembly. Also, a story by Judge Barbara Haynes about Tommy. News Saturday July 26 - Tennessean covers our Taxpayer Protection Pledge for Metro Council Candidates. News Saturday July 26 - Great Op-ed piece by Drew Johnson of the National Taxpayers Union about Metro Council pay raise. News Tuesday July 22 - They passed a Taxpayer Bill of Rights in Spring Hill and made HISTORY. News Monday July 14 - Click Here to read the list of Nashville Metro Council Candidates who have signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge promising the voters NOT to raise taxes. A big Thank YOU to these candidates. Please remember, the Metro Nashville Council passed the largest tax increase in the history of Nashville in 2001 and they will want MORE unless we vote for the right people. News Friday July 11 - The Williamson County Property Tax Increase will be voted on Monday. Please CALL the Commissioners today, it is not too late. If you live in Brentwood or Franklin or Williamson County, PLEASE CALL. Print these forms, the numbers are all listed at the bottom of the form. Download in Adode PDF Format Download in Word DOC format News Friday July 11- Maury County Tax Revolt - Urgent for Columbia, Mt. Pleasant and Spring Hill News Friday July 11 - Dan Isley in Maury County asks for a little respect for taxpayers. News Wednesday July 9 - Hooray for Coopertown!!! News Monday June 16 - Williamson County Property Tax Increase Alert!! If you live in Brentwood or Franklin or Williamson County. Williamson County Tax Faxes-Click, Print and Fax. Also, please make copies for your friends and neighbors. Download in Adode PDF Format Download in Word DOC format News Friday June 13 - The City of Goodlettsville, which covers part of both Davidson and Sumner Counties is about to TRIPLE!!!!! the property tax rate. You read that correctly, THREE times higher!! The final vote will probably be June 26 so if you live in Goodlettsville contact your commissioner and Mayor (see below) or be prepared to pay THREE TIMES MORE Property Tax. When you call, remember to always be polite and respectful. Bobby Jones, Mayor Hm: 859-5197 e-mail: mayorbobbyjones@cityofgoodlettsville.org Johnny Long, Vice-Mayor Hm: 851-9934 e-mail: vicemayorjohnnylong@cityofgoodlettsville.org Jeff Cordell, Commissioner Hm: 859-5649 e-mail: commissionerjeffcordell@cityofgoodlettsville.org Jim Driver, Commissioner Hm: 859-3229 e-mail: commissionerjimdriver@cityofgoodlettsville.org Jerry Garrett, Commissioner Hm: 859-1818 e-mail: commissionerjerrygarrett@cityofgoodlettsville.org News Thursday June 12 - Union County-Developing situation, Judge orders Commissioners to spend more money, they refuse, risk fines News Monday June 9 - Nashville Metro Government wants to TAX YOUR DOG, we ain't kiddin. Councilperson Janis Sontany has proposed a bill, here is the link, to tax your dog. We know, its hard to believe?? News Friday June 6 - This is awful!! Tennessean says Maury County may run out of fax paper!! News Monday June 2 - Maury County Property Tax Increase Alert!! If you live in Columbia, Spring Hill, Mt. Pleasant. Maury County Tax Faxes-Click, Print and Fax. Also, please make copies for your friends and neighbors. Download in Adode PDF Format Download in Word DOC format News Tuesday May 27 - Property Tax Increase ALERT for Shelby, Sumner, Montgomery, and Rutherford Counties!! News Monday April 28 - We're NUMBER 1. Unfortunately for Memphis/Shelby County that is correct. This Excel spreadsheet tells the story. Memphis/Shelby County has the highest combined property tax rates in the entire state of Tennessee, by a large margin, number 2 is not even close. In all 95 counties, No one has higher rates. News Monday April 21 - Memphis/Shelby County Property Tax Increase ALERT!! Mayor Wharton and the County Commissioners are considering a property tax increase. If you live in Shelby County you MUST ACT NOW!! Download, Print and Send this tax fax. Make copies for your friends. Download in Adode PDF Format Download in Word DOC format Display as a web page News Tuesday April 8 - A Taxpayer Bill of Rights for Tennessee. Over 200 lobbyists are paid millions each year. They work in Nashville at the Capitol and they have ONE objective: to get as much of your money and as many special favors as possible. Read this report on why a Taxpayer Bill of Rights is necessary to protect hard working taxpayers. (PDF file) News Thursday April 3 - Send Speaker Naifeh a message. Taxpayers paid for these reports and taxpayers should be able to access them without having to pay for a password - Click to read more. News Monday March 10 - Mr. Southerland goes to Nashville - Read about TRUE political courage and integrity!!! News Monday February 17 - This will make you sick!! While you were worrying about terrorist attacks, investigative reporter Phil Williams was undercover revealing the true relationship between lobbyists and some lawmakers. News Monday February 10 - ACTION Alert - Senator Haynes is trying to make it 20 times more difficult for you to participate in YOUR OWN government. Please READ!! News Monday January 27 - TTR Endorses Mark Goins for State Senate in the April 15, 2003 Special Election. Mark needs your help!! News Monday January 20 - Dear Governor Bredesen: We listened respectfully to your Inaugural address. We ask you to now listen to our address to you. News Thursday January 16 - Please Email the brave 33 General Assembly members who voted for a change in leadership!! News Monday January 6 - PLEASE Help!! and Call for New leadership in Tennessee. Naifeh=Income tax. News Friday January 3 - Mr. Income tax, Bob Rochelle, named to Tax study Commission. The income tax is alive and well and Jimmy Naifeh and Bob Rochelle are pushing IT as hard as ever. News Tuesday December 17 - Thanks to Jeff Bolstad for sending us this short MPEG video clip of the income tax protest on July 12, 2001 at the Capitol, listen to those chants of NO MORE TAXES!!. Like all MPEG's, this is a BIG file so if you don't have a high speed connection, it will take a few mins to download. Jeff says he may have more footage..stay tuned. News Thursday December 12 - Please HELP!! Join or Renew your $25 membership in TnTaxRevolt. Click Here News Wednesday December 4 - See our NEW SECTION - Government Watch. News Tuesday November 12 - Please HELP!! Encourage Frank Buck to run for Speaker News Thursday November 7 - Tennessee voters continue to say nix, nix to tax increases. Voters in Farview and McMinnville both defeated local sales tax increases on November 5. News Tuesday November 5 - The Van Hilleary campaign has endorsed the TABOR or Taxpayer Bill of Rights concept!! Click Hilleary TABOR. This development along with the great work Martin McBride and his group are doing in Oak Ridge OR-TABOR should give great momentum to the TABOR concept in Tennessee. The two key provisions for most TABORs are 1. let the voters make the final decision by voting on tax increases and 2. REFUND excess revenue back to the taxpayers. TnTaxRevolt Endorsements for Constitutional amendments and contested races. PDF Format or Word DOC format See How they voted on the income tax News Wednesday October 16 - New York Times article says Federal Government is losing track of billions of our dollars. Not to worry, however, they just write it off. News Wednesday October 9 - Hell NO, Indianapolis residents say NO more of our taxes to the Colts football team. Click Here to Read the article. News Friday Sept 20 - Jackson Tennessee residents are angry about the city trying to put a $63 million bond issue on the backs of taxpayers. Read the article about their effort to petition the city. News Monday Sept 16 - Read the proposed Oak Ridge Taxpayer Bill of Rights. Do you mean to tell us that taxpayers actually ought to have rights??? What a concept!!! News Monday July 29 - If you tell a lie often enough it becomes the truth for many people. Income tax proponents always told us that the sales tax was "inelastic", i.e., that it didn't keep up with the normal growth in government. Well, here is the June 2002, TN Dept of Revenue Report showing revenues from the Hall Income tax DOWN 26% and the sales tax collections virtually even with last year (down 15/100 of 1%). Click here to read the report in PDF format. News Wednesday July 24 - Click here to read the appropriations bill in PDF format that spends all of your hard earned money. News Apr. 24 - TennCare Report by State Auditors- Fraud and Abuse on a Massive Scale Plain Report with no comments (75k) Report with comments (220k)- Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader Ver 4.0 Both reports are PDF files that require the Adobe Acrobat Reader. We have extracted the 8 most important pages so you don't have to wade through all 464 pages. If you ever doubted that TennCare is a blackhole for your hard earned tax dollars, here it is from the state auditors. Please take your blood pressure medicine before reading. | |||