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The Liberty Blog
The Liberty Blog is For the Independent Activist centered on Individual Liberty, Constitutional Limited Government, Rule of Law, Free Market, Common Sense Fiscal Policies, and Personal Responsibility as applied in the real world of Pennsylvania politics.
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Greetings!
Senator Pat Toomey is centered on Constitutional Limited Government, Economic Freedom, Checks and Balances and Separation of Power, the Rule of Law, and Personal Responsibility. The three blogs below demonstrate the common sense positions he takes. Sen Toomey's web site is source of substantive policy information. Senator Toomey's Official Website is here.
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End Ethanol Subsidies
In accord with his message of Economic Freedom, Pat Toomey with clarity and coherence explicates his opposition to Ethanol government subsidies which, by government fiat, misallocate resources.
Legislation cosponsored by U.S. Senator Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) to end ethanol subsidies passed the U.S. Senate this afternoon by a wide bipartisan margin, 73-27.
The Ethanol Subsidy and Tariff Repeal Act (S. 871) will repeal the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit, a subsidy companies receive to blend ethanol with gasoline. Sens. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) offered this bipartisan legislation as an amendment to the Economic Development Revitalization Act (S. 782) currently being considered in the Senate.
For more on the perfidious intended and unintended consequences of this politically popular government subsidy, please read
Ethanolics Anonymous
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Government Shutdown and Debt Ceiling
The strategy that Republican Senator Pat Toomey, Republican US Representatives Mike Fitzpatrick, Jim Gerlach, Pat Meehan and many conservatives like Jeb Hensarling and Tom Price, M.D., (interestingly Democratic US Rep. Allyson Schwartz also voted for this CR) and Republican leadership is using can be, I call "Selective, Sequential Shutdown", that is, rather than across the board shutdown, various programs are analyzed for effectiveness and the cost-benefit.
It seems reasonable strategy to me and, certainly, is no betrayal of any campaign promise. I do think the Liberal Democrats will provoke a shutdown and it will be because they refuse to reduce spending as the voters, clearly, communicated last November.
The Morning Call Pennsylvania Avenue reports "Sen. Pat Toomey, after joining a majority of his colleagues to keep the government funded for three more weeks, said his support for the stopgap measure did not come easily. The bill passed 87-13."
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Pat Toomey Answers Ben Bernanke/Tim Geitner
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