Rural Congressmen Not Falling Into Line
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
When you believe that the direction being taken by Washington, D.C. is not the right direction for the country to be going, you place a great deal of hope in these kinds of reports which seem to be focusing on those who aren’t solidly in the camp of the Obama visionaries occupying the leadership posts in the U.S. House and Senate. The only thing standing between us and higher energy costs (brought about by more federal taxes) are the rural Democrats in Congress who are not willing to follow the line of reasoning by their fellow party members that destroying our national economy further is a great idea.
It’s good to see that some states have elected representatives who pay attention to the input that they are getting from their constituents. From a Nevada perspective, we’ve had solid recognition of rural values from Congressman Heller and we’ve benefited from Congresswoman Berkley in her leadership role on the Death Tax.
Senator Reid is given wide acclaim for his role in helping rural counties with dominating amounts of non-taxed public lands, under the management of federal agencies. He is credited for his leadership in getting full funding for the Payment-In-Lieu-Of-Taxes (PILT) program and has been using his leadership role to announce for the voters of Nevada how much cash will be coming home as a result of his effort.
We greatly appreciate the work that resulted in putting the funding into the pipeline to take care of the PILT obligation that has been in place for some time, but not funded to a level that would meet the requirements of the formula.
We further hope and strongly encourage our state’s Washington, D.C. representative to join with those who do not support the expansion of government into areas such as energy taxation under the guise of resolving the theory of climate change or further nationalizing private sector responsibilities like health care.
Elected officials need to hear from us, spelling out our expectations as well as our point of views on the important national issues they are considering.
When you believe that the direction being taken by Washington, D.C. is not the right direction for the country to be going, you place a great deal of hope in these kinds of reports which seem to be focusing on those who aren’t solidly in the camp of the Obama visionaries occupying the leadership posts in the U.S. House and Senate. The only thing standing between us and higher energy costs (brought about by more federal taxes) are the rural Democrats in Congress who are not willing to follow the line of reasoning by their fellow party members that destroying our national economy further is a great idea.
It’s good to see that some states have elected representatives who pay attention to the input that they are getting from their constituents. From a Nevada perspective, we’ve had solid recognition of rural values from Congressman Heller and we’ve benefited from Congresswoman Berkley in her leadership role on the Death Tax.
Senator Reid is given wide acclaim for his role in helping rural counties with dominating amounts of non-taxed public lands, under the management of federal agencies. He is credited for his leadership in getting full funding for the Payment-In-Lieu-Of-Taxes (PILT) program and has been using his leadership role to announce for the voters of Nevada how much cash will be coming home as a result of his effort.
We greatly appreciate the work that resulted in putting the funding into the pipeline to take care of the PILT obligation that has been in place for some time, but not funded to a level that would meet the requirements of the formula.
We further hope and strongly encourage our state’s Washington, D.C. representative to join with those who do not support the expansion of government into areas such as energy taxation under the guise of resolving the theory of climate change or further nationalizing private sector responsibilities like health care.
Elected officials need to hear from us, spelling out our expectations as well as our point of views on the important national issues they are considering.
Posted by Doug Busselman at 6/18/2009 5:53 AM 
Categories: Congress
Tags: Federal Legislation Global Warming Congress
Categories: Congress
Tags: Federal Legislation Global Warming Congress
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