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Thompson Votes to Prevent Largest Tax Increase in History, Extends Tax Relief to All Americans
Economists differ on how to stimulate the economy and move the country back into job-creating prosperity. But most agree that raising taxes in a poor economy is a bad idea and does not lead to job creation.
As we finish Thanksgiving and head into the Christmas holidays, the Congress is more interested in lame ducks than it is in roast turkey.
Lame ducks are those members who are still serving but lost their elections.
Can’t Get the Votes? Then Obama Says Regulate
The Obama Administration may be slowing down on trying to push legislation through Congress, particularly if the election brings more Republicans to the House. But they are not slowing their agenda.
Rather than debate the issues with Congress, the Obama administration is choosing to implement some of the changes it wants through regulation, executive order and rulemaking.
A Pledge to America
Elected officials often are judged by what they say and how they vote. Equally as important is how they listen to their constituents and learn from them.
In the last two years the majority in Washington has either not heard what the people are saying or they have not been listening. Either way, their agenda has created almost 10 percent unemployment, added to the National debt, saddled us with an indecipherable health care law and punished businesses with a heavy-handed approach to regulation, taxes and mandates.
Out and About in August...
Traditionally, with the end of summer comes the request from your fifth grade teacher to write about your summer vacation. I spent mine putting 4,000 miles on my odometer traveling through all of the 5th Congressional District’s 17 counties. The number is large—but when you consider that in the 20 months I have been in Congress, I have racked up almost 54,000 miles in my car making sure I touch base with all the communities in the District—it is not surprising.
Debt, Taxes and Fewer Jobs…
The President’s annual mid-year update from the Office of Management and Budget in July contained new information on the debt and the deficit and none of it was encouraging.
In 2010, the budget deficit is expected to set a record at $1.471 trillion or ten percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Over the next ten years the Obama budget plan would run up a cumulative deficit of $8.474 trillion, and the nation’s debt would reach $18.5 trillion in 2020, up from $5.8 trillion at the end of 2008.
 | Green ThumbThompson helps plant flowers at the intersection of College Avenue (Route 26) and University Drive in State College. The event was part of Western Pennsylvania Conservancy’s garden and green space planting project on May 22, 2010. |
Pennsylvania's One Book Every Young Child literacy campaign:In support of Pennsylvania's One Book Every Young Child literacy campaign, U.S. Congressman Glenn Thompson reads to children at the Punxsutawney Head Start IV Center. Thompson read What a Treasure!, a picture book by Jane and Will Hillenbrand that illustrates the pleasures of friendship.