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Coalition: Taxpayer Dollars Should Not Be Used to Fund Activist Lobbying

Wednesday, June 17 2015

The Center for Individual Freedom this week joined a broad coalition of free-market and taxpayer advocate organizations led by American Commitment urging Congress to stop CDC grants that fund advocacy and lobbying campaigns to raise taxes and limit our freedom at the state and local levels.

Read the full letter below:

Notable Quote

"As the midterm elections approach, a lot of what appears in the press is best interpreted through a partisan lens. There's already a baseline level of negativity bias as editors and algorithms have optimized toward the tendency of humans to click on bad news. Between now and Election Day, the economic, technology, and geopolitical news will have a particularly grim cast as reporters race to try to…[more]

— Ira Stoll, Washington Free Beacon

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