The Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) urges the new 118th Congress to right the wrongs of the federal bureaucracy that continue to harm consumer access to life saving technological changes.
The Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) urges the 118th Congress to prioritize tax reform and oversight of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The tax code is still too complicated, and the IRS has been riddled with backlogs, cybersecurity issues, and privacy breaches for many years.
The Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) responded to the results of Tuesday night’s election with optimism for healthcare policy under likely Republican control of the House of Representatives in 118th Congress.
The Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) urges the 118th Congress to use taxpayer money effectively and efficiently to help close the digital divide and ensure that both unserved and underserved communities are prioritized.
The Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) encourages the newly-elected 118th Congress to swiftly review and amend internal House and Senate rules to make Congress more transparent, effective, and accessible to taxpayers and consumers.
Today, the Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) applauded Baltimore City residents for voting for an independent Office of Inspector General (OIG) advisory board. Currently, city politicians’ designees serve on the board and effectively limit IG Isabel Cumming’s attempts to hold officials accountable.
For the past several years, policymakers at the local, state, and federal levels have been trying to address the so-called “youth vaping epidemic,” with many introducing legislation that attempts to ban the sale of flavored tobacco and vapor products. While their intentions are laudable, such policies fail to consider youth use of both tobacco and vapor products is declining, nor the reasons why youth are using tobacco and vape products. Moreover, in localities and states with existing flavor bans, an increase in young adult smoking is happening despite a national overall decline. Rather than instituting draconian bans that ignore innovations in tobacco harm reduction products, Columbus lawmakers should empower their state lawmakers to invest more than 2.1 percent of existing tobacco monies towards tobacco control programs including education, prevention and cessation.
As lawmakers attempt to regulate modified risk tobacco products (MRTP), it is imperative that they understand that the federal government recognizes that tobacco products exist on a spectrum of harm and, since 2009, has offered manufacturers the ability to provide information to market tobacco products as less harmful.
Tomorrow, as Americans across the country cast their votes to elect both a new Congress and state level officials, the Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) sees an opportunity to put taxpayers and consumers ahead of partisan bickering.
Tomorrow, as Americans across the country cast their votes to elect both a new Congress and state level officials, the Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) sees an opportunity to put taxpayers and consumers ahead of partisan bickering.
