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	Let Your Voices Be Heard! Attend an NTF Meeting !
NTF Meetings	Fiscal conservatives eagerly are awaiting Tuesday, November 2, when we will have the opportunity to “take out the garbage” and elect fiscal conservatives to national, state, and local offices. Many conservative folks attend tea parties, our Nebraska Taxpayers for Freedom meetings, and other similar events. However, it is not enough to sit, watch, and listen. Conservatives must become active and actually help conservative candidates campaign and win elections. Therefore, we invite conservative-minded people to attend our Nebraska Taxpayers Super Saturday, to meet and volunteer to help conservative candidates that weekend. Here is the information: Saturday, Sept. 18, 9 AM – 11 AM, 2819 South 125 Avenue #362 in Westwood Plaza on the south side of West Center Rd, Omaha, in the east-west strip mall directly south of Hooters. Free coffee, orange juice, and donuts. You can make a difference this November, but you must volunteer some time and effort. ========================================================= OMAHA TAXPAYER TEA PARTY TO OPPOSE MAYOR SUTTLE'S BUDGET. Nebraska Taxpayers for Freedom hosted a Taxpayer Tea Party meeting on Wed. Aug. 18, 6:30 PM at Millard Library, 132nd & Westwood Lane, Omaha. We showed a Power Point presentation on fighting Mayor Suttle's liberal budget and distributed activity packets to use to lobby your city council member. We distributed tea bags with "Taxed Enough Already" stickers, circulated our petitions opposing tax hikes, and distributed our issue paper offering fiscally conservative alternatives to Mayor Suttle’s FY 2011 budget. Please bring friends and neighbors. See our issue paper here. The newest member of the Omaha City Council, Tom Mulligan, has shown himself as a RINO (Republican in Name Only). His votes on the FY 2011 budget, union contracts, etc., will hurt Omaha taxpayers financially. See his liberal voting record here. ========================================================= Congressman Lee Terry (2nd Dist. NE) awarded an "A" Grade!! Nebraska Taxpayers for Freedom once again has awarded Cong. Lee Terry an "A" Grade, 90%, for his many votes during the 2009 session of Congress on taxes, spending, government regulation, immigration, foreign affairs, etc. NTF presented Cong. Terry with a high achievement plaque at our February meeting. ======================================================== Lobby your Omaha City Council member now to press the Mayor and fellow council members to represent taxpayer interests by playing hardball with the city fire union in contract negotiations. Urge council members to insist on a contract that squeezes out excess benefits, fat, and waste. Click here to see our NTF worksheet. ========================================================= Lobby your Omaha City Council member now to vote NO on the inflationary police union contract pushed by Mayor Suttle. This contract will cost Omaha taxpayers millions more and not end pension spiking. Click here to view our issue paper that you can use for talking points to lobby. ======================================================== PAPIO-MISSOURI NATURAL RESOURCES BOARD STICKS IT TO TAXPAYERS. 9 members of the Papio NRD board voted to float a multi-million dollar bond issue that will cost residents within the district a hefty property tax hike in future years. 2 fiscal conservative board members voted NO on this travesty. Find out who stuck it to taxpayers and who supported taxpayers. Click here. ====================================================== Nebraska Taxpayers for Freedom has begun a Ban Ben "Petition to Ostracize Senator Ben-occhio Nelson Campaign," a senator who consistently has talked like a fiscal conservative to his constituents in Nebraska but votes the Socialist Democrat Party Line in D.C. NTF awarded Nelson a 38% conservative voting score in 2008. His vote passed ObamaCare in the U.S. Senate. Our petition urges the Senator to NOT visit communities in which petition signers reside and requests that the Senator NOT request the support of citizens in these communities to advance his legislation in the Senate or any other agenda to promote or secure his political career. Email NE Taxpayers for a petition and related materials. Click here. ====================================================== The Nebraska media seems to have "spiked" our NTF 2009 voting record on NE senators. Sen. Mike Johanns received an "A" score of 90%. Sen. Ben Nelson received an "F" score of 51%. Read more here. ===================================================== Metropolitan Utilities District and the Omaha Public Power District both have raised our utility rates, again. NE Taxpayers for Freedom fought against both rate hikes, and we could use your help in fighting future rate hikes. Read our MUD issue paper and OPPD issue paper. ======================================================= University of Nebraska employees are playing fast and loose with university debit cards. No official authority appears interested in prosecuting this outrageous misconduct. The university system constantly whines for more taxpayer dollars but apparently cannot control debit card use that violates both state and university regulations. Take action! Contact your regent on the Board of Regents. Click here to view our issue paper. ===================================================== See our NTF issue paper and use it to lobby your 2 senators to vote NO on the Cap & Tax Energy Bill. Click here. ===================================================== Most of the Obama Porkulus bill $$ supposedly went to localities to create new jobs and build or rebuild infrastructure. See where your porkulus tax dollars went in Douglas County, NE. Click here. ======================================================== See our issue paper on Health Care Reform. Click here ===================================================== We need folks in outstate NE to help us organize Property Valuation town hall meetings in their communities. Please volunteer to help by emailing us. ===================================================== Request for assistance: NTF taxpayer watchdogs in Douglas and Sarpy Counties need the assistance of CPAs or other professionals who can help us analyze local taxing authority budgets and compile a list of suggestions for budget cuts for each that will eliminate waste, inefficiency, and duplication. Click on contact tab in row above and volunteer to help us control local property taxes. Budget hearings begin soon.
Speaker Available	NTF can provide a speaker on taxes for your civic or community group. Email your request .
Voting Records	NTF produces voting records for several local taxing authorities and the Legislature on taxes, spending, and government regulation.
Take A Stand	Learn how to speak comfortably and easily at a public hearing on issues important to you. Click here.
Hot Issues	Sen.Ben Nelson speaks often about wasteful spending, but he voted FOR the Porkulus Bill! ================================= Stop Obama-Waxman-Markey Energy Taxes! click here. ================================== Stop ObamaCare, the socialist health care plan promoted by the President and Socialist Democrats in Congress. The life you save may be your own! Click here.	click here
Hot Issues	A government bailout for the liberal news media Durbin Amendment Would Stifle Conservative Talk Radio	click here click here

Contract with the Taxpayers of Nebraska

Omaha Metro Learning Community Will Plunder Local Taxpayers

Local Governments Use Our Property Tax $$ to Lobby Against Taxpayers !

Papio NRD board wants to ravage local taxpayers to enrich developers.

Nebraskans are Fighting For the Fair Tax

Tired of Taking Lumps at the Gas Pumps?

”Prime Cuts” Tax-Cutting Effort	Property Valuation and Tax Relief
Our Prime Cuts Project helps our elected officials find ways to cut taxes and fees and reduce spending. Got a tax cut or budget cut idea? Email NTF. Squeal on misconduct and waste in taxation and spending. We will keep your name secret. Email us anonymously. Forward documentation if necessary.	High, confiscatory property taxes are taxing not only elderly people and those on fixed incomes out of their homes but also driving out working people. The root of the problem is our runaway property valuation law revised in 1995 by then-Gov. Ben Nelson and the Legislature. We must change this law! To view and help, click here.
The Global Warming Hoax	”Petition Nebraska” is an ongoing NTF Project that lobbies state senators to restore our petition rights. See the historic background of this project. Click here.
Chicken Littles of the radical environmental movement want us to believe that a rapid rise in temperature will bring us a Waterworld! What we will have, if eco-radicals pass the Kyoto Treaty in the Senate, are much higher fuel and other energy costs and much leaner family budgets. Help fight this threat to both our economy and standard of living by looking at this and this.	State Senators continually erode our petition rights, so that taxpayers cannot use our status as the virtual 2^nd House of the Legislature to petition for redress of taxpayer and other grievances. Click here to help.

President Obama Watch. Be alert to counter the steady stream of socialist legislative initiatives proposed by this President. Be ready to lobby against these Obaminations!	Congress Watch. See which Nebraska congressmen and senators vote and work diligently for taxpayers.
Pres. Obama wants to roll back the Bush tax cuts and stop future tax cuts. He wants to raise taxes on “the rich” (anyone earning over $42,000 per year). Obama wants to start massive government public works programs, the kind implemented by FDR, that never cured the Great Depression. Join Obama Watch!	Our Capitol Hill representatives will face arduous work in foiling the legislative agenda of our socialist President. They must counter this drift to socialism by proposing and championing fiscally conservative alternatives. Access a list of our Capitol Hill delegation here.
Join our NTF Legislative Watch Project and learn how to lobby your state senator on important fiscal issues and monitor their votes! Learn how to ask them tough and embarrassing questions!	City County Watch. Omaha taxpayers will suffer hard when delayed spending sets off a fiscal time bomb. Meanwhile, the Douglas County Board is not cutting spending nearly enough to prevent higher property tax levies on all taxpayers.
Who’s cool and who’s cruel to Nebraska taxpayers? Legislative pigs are gorging at the taxpayer trough, hungrier than ever. Yet they demand pay raises! To see the worst porkers, click here. See their abysmal voting records in the 2008 Legislature.	City of Omaha officials want to raise our sewer fees 500% to meet an EPA mandate, too cowardly to lobby our congressional delegation to overturn this mandate. Overly generous city employee pension costs and huge debt yoking us from the convention center/arena will burden taxpayers. Now, the Mayor wants a “Streetcar Not Desired” trolley folly to eat more tax $$s!

Education Monitor I scrutinizes Nebraska public schools. Help end the reign of public school board taxaholics. Find fiscal conservatives to run for school board positions. Email for more information. Attn: school district staff and teachers. Mail your public school tax $$ waste horror stories to NTF, P.O. Box 6452, Omaha, NE. 68106.	Education Monitor II monitors the University of Nebraska system. The university budget is dripping with fat and waste. Click here.
See OP$ (Omaha Public Schools). See OP$ spend taxpayers’ money. See OP$ spend too much taxpayers’ money. OP$ needs our help. It needs help to cut its bloated budget. Will you help OP$? Please help OP$. Suggest a budget cut for OP$ here. OP$ spending is way up, but test scores are in the dumpster! OP$-Many Children Left Behind . See OP$ school board report card.	The football team is not the only university entity that is colored red…the whole budget is hemorrhaging red. University administrators and faculty whine and holler about budget cuts. Yet, regents found $3 million in the pot to pay for a new library repository for books that hardly anyone checks out. See our suggestions for university budget cuts!
Telecommunications Watchdog is an NTF project that fights for our right to access telecommunications services without strangling government regulations and taxes.	Our Illegal Immigration Project means to stop the incoming illegal alien tide into Nebraska. Illegal aliens are stealing our jobs, draining our welfare system, victimizing our citizens with crime, and flooding our schools.
Check out how Telecommunications Watchdog fights the effort by government officials who want to raise our telecommunications taxes by charging access fees each time we log onto the Internet, tax purchases we make over the Internet, and charge other telecom taxes to pay for pet spending projects. Fight back!	See which state senators voted to give resident college tuition rates to illegal aliens but not to out of state military veterans. Help Sen. John McCain pick lettuce. Click here .

Heating bills sending you through the roof?? Our issue paper explains why natural gas prices are spiking. State gas taxes at the pump giving you that bloated feeling? Sound off loud after reading our issue paper.

For immediate release For more information contact:

December 1, 2008 Doug Kagan

Phone: (402) 551-0921

Email: netaxpayers@cox.net

“TAXPAYER PROTECTION PLEDGE”

In the state treasury, there exists a projected cash reserve of $474 million for FY 2008-09 and $469 million for FY 2009-10. Therefore, Nebraska Taxpayers for Freedom is asking newly-elected state senators to sign pledges to not raise state taxes. Taxpaying citizens beleaguered by our economic recession deserve consideration from this surplus over special interests who undoubtedly will pressure senators to raise taxes and fees or expand the tax base for additional spending.

Many politicians during election campaigns promise to not raise taxes but quickly change their minds as they begin their tenure. Thus, we are requesting freshmen state senators to pledge in writing not to increase our state tax load. The following pledge we call the “Contract With the Taxpayers of Nebraska:”

“I, Senator ____________, pledge to the taxpayers of District ______ and to the citizens of the State of Nebraska, that as a senator in the Nebraska Unicameral legislature, I will oppose and vote against any and all tax increases in the 2009 and future legislative sessions, excepting a declared statewide emergency caused by a natural disaster(s) or other declared calamitous state or national emergency.

This pledge is binding while a person holds the office for which an individual signed the pledge. We want high taxers and big spenders in the Legislature to contend with as many new pledge signers as possible.

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* not one state senator signed this pledge during the 2009 Legislative session.

For immediate release For more information contact:

July 19, 2009 Doug Kagan

Phone: (402) 551-0921

NEBRASKA TAXPAYERS FOR FREEDOM TEA PARTY

Nebraska Taxpayers for Freedom will hold a Taxpayers Tea Party on Tue. Aug. 11 at the City-County Bldg. in Omaha, at 1819 Farnam Street. At 6:30 PM, we will hold a short demonstration against proposed city tax hikes. At 7 PM, at the public budget hearing, we will present our petitions to the city council, signed by thousands of Omaha area residents who oppose an increase in our property or sales tax or a new garbage fee, occupation tax, or entertainment tax. We encourage taxpayers to testify or just sit and listen while wearing a taxpayer watchdog tea bag sticker.

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Nebraska Taxpayers in the News	Nebraska Taxpayers in the News
Lobbyists Lobby Against Us	Read all about it
Our petition rights eroded	Read all about it and get angry!
Our July 4th Tea Party.	Read about our gettin' people active!
Term Limits Must Stay Deport Illegal Aliens. Stop City of Omaha Tax Hikes!	Read about our support for term limits! Read all about our opinions on this topic! Read all about our tea party & testimony!

SUGGESTION FOR A BURMA SHAVE SIGN ON NEBRASKA STATE BORDER HIGHWAYS:

Stealing our savings,
They cut us no slack.
I'm leaving Nebraska
And I'm not coming back!

People often contact me with complaints about their taxes, government spending, and burdensome bureaucratic rules. Unfortunately, most of these complainers only want to complain. They seem to think that NTF can wave a magic wand and almost immediately ameliorate our tax-and-spend climate in Nebraska. They themselves do not want to help fight the Tax-and-Spend Monsters. Taxpayers must understand that tax-, spending-, and regulation-reform and relief requires a mass movement of committed people. It takes little time, effort, and expense to become a taxpayer watchdog. Please come to our meetings at Millard Library in Omaha and join our grass-roots taxpayers organization. Please feel free to email me for further information.

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