AUGUST 10, 2014 |
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GOVERNMENT
POWER PLAYS |
1st hour:
Rooftop Solar Companies Cash In on Government Handouts |
2nd hour:
CARB Attack on Californians - Fred Kelly Grant |
Guest
for 1st hour:
Michi
Iljazi |
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Communications
and Policy Manager for the Taxpayers Protection Alliance
(TPA) |
www.ProtectingTaxPayers.org
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Michi Iljazi
earned his Master's Degree in Political
Science at American University in
Washington, D.C. and has worked in
Communications and Policy Research for
the last several years with multiple
organizations including Americans for
Tax Reform and Americans for Prosperity.
Michi’s past work includes policy
research on Taxes, Health Care, Energy,
Voter Trends, and the Media;
longitudinal campaign tracking and voter
trends for Federal Races nationwide;
overseen communications for both
state-based and nationally-based
grassroots activities; written about
politics, and policy with his work
appearing on numerous sites including
Americans for Tax Reform, Red State, and
Menzies House. |
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MICHI ILJAZI |
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SHOW INFORMATION: |
Rooftop Solar Companies Cash In on Government
Handouts |
REF:
http://www.protectingtaxpayers.org/index.php?blog&category_id=8
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David Williams,
President of TPA,
contends that the Solar Investment Tax Credit and
other state and local incentives to install rooftop
solar installations are schemes that enrich
politically connected and favored solar companies
and their Wall Street investors at the expense of
homeowners and taxpayers in California and
nationally. Even worse, customers who are enticed to
sign onto these leasing programs are finding they
actually reduce the value of their homes.
For years
Washington has subsidized rooftop solar
installations for customers in the form of the Solar
Investment Tax Credit, which allows homeowners who
install rooftop solar panels to receive a tax credit
of up to 30 percent of the cost.
The subsidy has
been one of the many ongoing ways in which the feds
insert themselves into the energy marketplace. And
while it has hampered efforts to achieve real energy
independence in the U.S., and has therefore caused
real harm to our economy, it nevertheless has met a
legitimate need for homeowners desperate for some
relief from high energy costs.
But rooftop
solar companies – most of which, like SolarCity,
Corp., are political connected and favored – have
created a scheme to claim the tax credit for
themselves. These companies discovered that if they
lease the rooftop solar systems to homeowners, the
companies themselves can claim the federal tax
credit as well as all state and local incentives.
Evidence is now pouring in that this scheme enriches
these companies and their Wall Street investors at
the expense of homeowners and taxpayers. Worse
still, customers who are persuaded to sign onto
these leasing programs are finding they reduce the
value of their homes. |
Read the article:http://townhall.com/columnists/davidwilliams/2014/07/24/rooftop-solar-companies-cash-in-on-government-handouts-n1864766/page/full |
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Articles by Michi
Iljazi: |
Summer
Reading: Internet Access Taxes |
Video:
TPA Communications & Policy
Manager Michi Iljazi on Taxpayer 'Tricks & Treats of
2013' w/KTGO 1090AM |
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hour
2 |
CARB Attack on Californians |
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Guest
for 2nd hour:
Fred
Kelly Grant |
http://StandandFightClub.com
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Our Guest:
Fred Kelly Grant |
APPEARANCES: OCT
24, 2010
JAN 9,
2011
MAR 13,2011
JUN 5, 2011
JUL 31, 2011
MAR 2, 2014
AUG 10, 2014 |
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facebook.com/fred.k.grant
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FRED KELLY GRANT |
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Fred
Grant attained his B.A. from the College of Idaho in 1958,
majoring in History; with specialization in Constitutional
History and Law. He then attended the University of Chicago
School of Law. He served as Law Clerk to Chief Judge Brune, in
the Maryland Court of Appeals. He first worked as an associate
at Lord, Bissell, and Brook; a Chicago law firm representing
Lloyd's of London. He continued to practice law in the District
of Maryland, where he was an Assistant United States Attorney.
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He later became Assistant
State Attorney of Baltimore, and then Chief
of the Organized Crime Unit, State's
Attorney of Baltimore. He spent his
remaining time in Baltimore involved in
criminal defense.
Grant later moved with his family back to Nampa Idaho where he
and his wife were both raised. He accepted an appointment by
Idaho’s Governor as a liaison with the federal agencies, and
eventually served two of Idaho’s Governors in various roles. He
has been a hearing officer in zoning issues for over 30 years
and has helped cities and counties write land use plans
protecting property rights. He works closely with Owyhee County,
Idaho where he developed the “Coordination Strategy” now being
taught across the nation as a way for local governments to have
meaningful input into the federal and state decision making
process. |
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SHOW INFORMATION: |
CARB
Attack on Californians |
Preparation has
begun in earnest for the northern California public
hearing related to EPA and the California Air
Resources Board (CARB) and their rule on diesel
filters. The hearing which is being hosted by the
City of Redding, and its active Shasta Coordinating
Committee, will include evidence from all folks in
the area who have relevant testimony and documents
as to harm to their property interests and values to
be caused by the plan.
As usual when the EPA and its minions go to work to
regulate rural America, they place common sense on
the ledge above the sink and leave it there.
As I began early preparations I interviewed a
Trustee of the Shasta Community College, a local
college with fine campus resources in three
locations within Shasta County. His testimony is
some of the most frightening since I have started a
final thrust to de-fang the EPA.
As you will see during
this short excerpt from the video, CARB destroyed
perfectly good equipment being used daily at the
school for its courses on operating and maintaining
heavy equipment.
The equipment
never leaves the campus. But it did not have one of
the newly deified diesel exhaust filters, so CARB
would not allow its use. CARB agents came to the
College, and used a blow torch to burn holes through
the operating parts of the perfectly operating
equipment, which was then hauled off for scrap.
CARB then offered the county a grant of near
$500,000 from tax dollars to replace the equipment.
The school had to come up with matching of about
$98,000 which came from tax dollars and industry
donations.
Keep in mind this class heavy equipment was not used
off campus; it was not the type 24-7 over road use
that was first attacked by EPA. CARB, by wrote,
interfered in the educational quality at a state
community college—-and used tax dollars to do it.
This is another example of the adage: If you give a
bureaucrat a power, he will use it! With that in
mind, here’s Shasta Community College trustee board
member Scott Swendiman. |
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SAY NO TO CARB |
(California Air Resources Board) |
WAKE UP
CALIFORNIANS!
IT WILL
AFFECT YOU!!! |
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The letter to the
California Air Resources Board from the City of Redding
Coordination Committee is on it's way, (probably to the Supreme
Court). |
02-28-14_CARB _Letter.pdf |
We would like to see
this letter go viral as we need to raise money for expenses. If
you have any questions you can email:
SayNoToCARB@gmail.com or call |
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Dick
Wright (City of Redding Coordination Committee):
530-275-8862 |
VIDEO: STAND AND
FIGHT |
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Click to start video
at:
Stand and Fight
Redding vs CARB |
Attention!
Keep
this event in mind before you vote for the next
Shasta County Board Supervisor:
A "thank you letter" to CARB?? |
Which amounts to "Thank you
for me slower"
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Read the article:
Shasta County Air
Pollution Control Board Special Meeting, April 8,
2014
http://www.fantompenguin.com/2014/04/shasta-county-air-pollution-control.html |
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