Recently, former Federal Reserve Chairman, and now top member of President Obama’s Economic Council of Advisors, Paul Volcker, has admitted that the implementation of a Value Added Tax (VAT) is likely to soon become law.

I just returned from the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans. The experience was a strange one, and I left both heartened by the fire of the new crop of candidates and frustrated with the establishment politicians like Haley Barbour, who was pushing Charlie Crist from the podium.

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There were some very heartening moments for fiscal conservatives at today's SRLC. The theme across the board was out of control spending and how to reign it in. Every speaker brought up the incredible cost of the health care legislation that has been passed, and took the turn to bang the drum against coming tax hikes in the form of Cap and Trade and other economy killing policies. The one banging the drum the loudest on energy policy was Sarah Palin

Over 150 activists from across North Carolina converged on Raleigh to urge Attorney General Roy Cooper and Governor Perdue to join the growing lawsuit against the unconstitutional individual mandate provision in the health reform bill and the overreach of federal powers. 

John Deere is playing politics with their employee's jobs - so FreedomWorks and the National Center for Public Policy Research are calling them out in a new ad campaign.  Watch the ad here.

Proponents of creating green jobs in California are currently pushing for state legislation that would enforce greenhouse gas emission cuts.

As you have probably surmised, there will be a large round of Tea Parties coming up on April 15th. There will be large names, even larger crowds - and honestly, organizers would be unable to stop people from coming if they wanted to at this point. I will be speaking inAtlanta, and the FreedomWorks event in DC has a fantastic line-up including Lord Monckton, Andrew Breitbart, and Ron Paul.