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August 3, 2010 from 7am to 8pm – Your local voting booth.
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November 2, 2010 from 6am to 8pm – your
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carole, I was out for dinner and got you message when i returned. Calling the number you left on the voice mail was a nursing home. perhaps I heard it wrong and like a dummy I erased it. Please call me back on the same number as before. I will be up…
call me directly and I will walk you through step by step. 616-399-9535
I signed up for icaucus a long time ago, watched the videos and haven't checked back since. It seems like I had problems with the site then too. Anyway, yesterday, I tried to access it with my email and password as requested, and it seemed to know n…
I see you're new here. If you look back over the months, you'll find lots of discussions on this website about this issue. None of us signed this petition. If you read the Grand Rapids Press, check the Sunday Public Pulse. You'll see a letter from m…
I see the Tea Party as aracial. It just isn't on our radar. And maybe that's where they think they will find our weak spot. The issue of race just isn't on any agenda that I've heard of. Do they think a lack of "issue-ness" means lack of caring? The…
This is something I've thought a lot about. Our founding fathers knew that without a virtuous, moral, religious population, the inner discipline would not be there to maintain our freedom. It's been said that religion is the opiate of the masses but…
Dutton Day at Cook's Hot Dogs
June 26, 2010 from 10am to 6pm
Member Gary Cook, owner of Cook's Hot Dogs, has invited us to set up our booth on his property for the day.
We can sell all our merchandise, hand out fliers, and get healthcare petition signatures. We are getting down to the wire for the petition d…
Eagle Forum Activiest Training at Western Michigan University East Beltline Conference Center.
June 17, 2010 from 5:30pm to 9pm
Area wide invitation. Our guest speaker will be Executive Director of Eagle Forum Colleen Holmes. She will be speaking to area Tea Parties to better prepare us for the August Third Primaries and beyond.
There is no charge for the training but we do…
General Election at your
November 2, 2010 from 6am to 8pm
All hands on deck as we will need to have people to be poll watchers, get out the vote phone calls, possibly even picking up people to get them to the polls, voting yourself.
I'm guessing on the times.
PRIMARY ELECTION at Your local voting booth.
August 3, 2010 from 7am to 8pm
All Hands on Deck as we will need to work the polls as watchers, work the phones to get out the vote by conservatives, and of course vote.
Liber-TEA Fair -- State-Wide Tea Party Event at Charlotte /Eaton County Fairgrounds
July 24, 2010 from 12:30pm to 4:30pm
In the interest of Michigan Tea Party unity the Michigan Tea Party Alliance is planning a state-wide event. We are working on a candidate debate. Possibly the Governor candidates or Secretary of State candidates. We have acquired the Charlotte Fairg…
Sparta Town and Country Days Parade at We will receive this as it gets closer but it's in the neighborhood street in Sparta
July 17, 2010 from 1:30pm to 4pm
We had a big response last year. We will walk with our banner and hand out fliers.
Line-up is 1:30, Parade is at 2:30. The end time is a guess. It's a pretty short parade.
Cuttlervile Community Day at on the street
June 11, 2010 at 5pm to June 12, 2010 at 5pm
We will have a booth. Set up is Friday afternoon for the 5pm start of events. There is also a parade on Saturday.
This is a great opportunity to sell our pop and chips, shirts, and other merchandise.
We can also get health care petition signatures.
Main Group Tea Party of WM general meeting. at Steffens Enterprises
June 10, 2010 from 7pm to 8:30pm
Tom George will be here to speak about his run for Governor of Michigan
July 3rd Independence Day Tea Party at Riverside Park (Band shell), Accross from the Vets Home
July 3, 2010 from 1pm to 2:30pm
Come join us July 3rd for a Tea Party, featuring a candidate forum brought to you by Independence Caucus.
Independence Caucus vetted candidates will have a moment to share what the constitution means to them and how they will be different from the…
My initial reaction is, no, we should not allow groups in as members. Maybe when it's had time to stew around in my brain, I might come up with a different answer. But it seems to me we came together as individuals to have a group of like minded peo…
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- Yes. Just look at how they've all voted for these recent monstronsities and where the government's been going for a long t ime. I get the feeling that it's all about being reelected, not what's good for the people.
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"It stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there's someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master." --novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
"It stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there's someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master." --novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
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- At 1:47pm on March 25, 2010,
Joshua Lillie said… - Hi,
I thought you might be interested in this 2 hour class on how to run for office that I have organized. It covers how to fill out the paperwork, run a campaign and some of the other logistics. Even if you do not plan on running for an office it is a great opportunity to learn more about the political process. The class is free as well as the Pizza and refreshments. Click here for more information and to RSVP, or see the events section for details.
In Liberty,
Josh Lillie
- At 1:23pm on August 21, 2009,
Patricia Collins said… - Carol I have a job for you tomorrow.... see me at the rally please. Holding time cards for Ruth so she doesn't speak too long. Bring a watch please
- At 11:28pm on July 20, 2009,
Norma J. Fraser said… - So glad you are able to join us on Saturday.
- At 12:55pm on July 8, 2009,
Norma J. Fraser said…
- Glad you are my friend. See you tomorrow night.
- At 2:03pm on July 3, 2009,
Phil Schneider said… - Carol & Gordon,
Jan and I are going to Ada Fireman's pankake breakfast in AM on 4th!
Then we're going to Cascade Parade (out in froint of Church).
Then we're going to the Riverside Park TPralley at 12:45 noon or so.
If you wish to save gas and reduce the number of vehicles at the
park (that is the conservationist GOP in me), you folks could come
to our place and then just ride down Knapp to the end of the road.
[Knapp ends at Riversisde park.]
- At 6:01pm on June 24, 2009,
Cyndi Kuhlman said… - Carole, thank you so much for your ride offer. I found one from someone who lives pretty close by. I will see you tonite.
Cyndi
- At 9:32am on June 22, 2009,
Jim Chiodo said… - Carole. thank you for your donation. I do not have visibility to money donated to Pay pal. Rest assured when you did a transaction through Paypal, that the money will end up in TPWMI's bank account.
The guy who sees the money is our treasurer. I can't remeber his name.
- At 1:04am on May 3, 2009,
Daar Fisher said… - Hi Carole , Pres. Obama loved having our state's Gov. Jennifer Granholm around him prior to his inauguration. Why his positive impulse over someone whose ideas of leadership and fiscal discipline have been found lacking? (Maybe it's her artful rhetoric?) For too long we Michiganders have been victims of our legislators' big-spending policies made possible by an income tax code rife with poltical favor-making - enhancing their own power, but making our families and businesses poorer. Most recently, under the guise of fixing Michigan's tax system, the legislature enacted the Michigan Business Tax. Trouble is, the MBT still remains a gross receipts tax, levying a tax even if a business isn't profitable - which was the problem with the Single Business Tax it was designed to replace. The MBT continues to penalize entrepreneurship and productivity, and Michigan is rapidly losing businesses, jobs, and families - daily !
When I learned about the Michigan FairTax plan, I decided to quit feeling like a victim, and decided to do something to help change Michigan's economic environment - and I'd like to invite you to join us! Thousands of us are working hard to get the word out about a fairer, progressive consumption tax - the Michigan FairTax. Our goal is to SCRAP the Michigan income tax because the system is broken. In order to give Michigan voters the power to choose, we are laying the groundwork for a ballot drive to get the Michigan FairTax on the 2010 general election ballot.
The Michigan FairTax will both simplify, and stimulate, Michigan's business / jobs climate in a dramatic and ongoing manner. It will replace the income tax and current sales tax, with a consumption tax (sales tax at point of retail sale) while un-taxing all purchases up to poverty level - this means no more withholding of state tax from Michigan wage-earners' paychecks.
What's more, every Michigan resident-family will receive a monthly "prebate" check, in amount based on family size (.0975 x $ [ poverty level per family size] ). This will ensure that NO Michigan family will EVEN BEGIN paying the MI FairTax on goods / services unless, or until, they exceed poverty-level spending. Thus, the MI FairTax rate would effectively be 0% on all monthly family spending up to the monthly poverty level, thereafter it would be 9.75%. A reasonable average effective rate, inferred, would be about 5.5% (that's without putting anything away!) Monies placed into savings are not available to spend, and therefore would result in a further effective tax rate reduction.- - -
~ Become a part of this citizen-based movement! ~ (We seldom email state-wide, generally notifying members nearby to events or initiatives.)
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Under a FairTax system, points of collection will be dramatically reduced (from millions of individuals to considerably fewer retailers, many of whom are already collecting sales tax). With a Michigan FairTax, income tax-- returns, audits, interest, and penalites vanish.
Currently, goods / services prices and fees carry income / payroll tax compliance costs - "a hidden tax," ultimately paid by us. The FairTax will externalize these costs, making them visible. Michigan exporters will then be able to jettison the FairTax, prior to shipment, making Michigan products more competitive, globally. The MI FairTax is NOT applied to non-retail, business-to-business purchases, as this inseparably embeds taxation costs in prices of finished goods and services.This plan is revenue neutral, as it-- ends "first fruit" confiscation of wages, stops the practice of hiding consumer taxes in retail prices, makes the true cost of gov't visible, and properly pays for gov't as we meet personal and family needs. Take action! - JOIN OUR TAX REFORM ARMY to bring Michigan back!
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Made popular by the federal FairTax bill (H.R. 25, which was either co-sponsored or otherwise endorsed by several 2008 presidential candidates), this approach to taxation reaches across the political spectrum
Mike Gravel (D) - Mike Huckabee (R) - Ron Paul (Libertarian R) Why the FairTax idea is right for America's working families.
Dr. Laurence Kotlikoff believes that it will take the FairTax to reverse unfunded U.S. gov't obligations, about
$53$88 trillion and counting !!
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