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Citizen Outreach Joins Coalition Letter Urging FTC to Finalize Update to Contact Lens Rule

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(Las Vegas, NV) – Citizen Outreach today joined fellow members of the Coalition for Contact Lens Consumer Choice in submitting a letter to members of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) urging them to finalize a long-delayed update to the Contact Lens Rule “as soon as possible.”

The update would be of significant benefit to some 41 million Americans who wear contact lenses and often find themselves a “captive audience” when attempting to purchase their contact lenses from someone other than the optometrist who issued their prescription.

“Too much power still resides with optometrists who can prescribe and sell contact lenses at the same time, without any meaningful choice by the patient,” the letter reads.  “In the absence of a strong FTC rule, there is no incentive for a prescriber to ever willingly give a patient their prescription.”

Signers of the letter “support legislative and regulatory proposals at the federal and state levels that protect the ability of consumers to purchase contact lenses from the retailer of their choice – whether online, in stores or over the phone – and strongly support competition in the marketplace, because it helps both consumers and taxpayers.”

The Coalition represents retailers, contact lens wearers, eye care and medical professionals, and consumer and taxpayer groups such as Citizen Outreach.  The Coalition includes members from both sides on the political aisle, as well as companies who compete against each other in the marketplace.

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Citizen Outreach Signs Onto Coalition Letter Calling for End to Foreign Sugar Subsidies

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A group of nine national free-market advocacy and education organizations have submitted a coalition letter to Senate Republicans urging that language be added to the Farm Bill that would zero out the current U.S. sugar program in return for foreign competitors zeroing out their sugar industry subsidies.

The group supports a resolution introduced by Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.), called Zero for Zero, which is in line with President Trump’s stated long-term trade goal of “No tariffs, no barriers…and no subsidies.”

The coalition letter notes that the current U.S. sugar program “exists because foreign subsidies have made sugar the world’s most volatile commodity market” and hurts American farmers.

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Citizen Outreach joins coalition to repeal FATCA

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(Washington, D.C.) – A coalition of 23 taxpayer protection and grassroots organizations sent a letter today urging Congressional leadership to include repeal of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) as part of comprehensive tax reform. Co-authored by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity and the Campaign to Repeal FATCA, the letter highlights the path of destruction that FATCA has carved through the international financial sector.

Link to Repeal FATCA letter:
http://freedomandprosperity.org/files/2017-FATCA_repeal_coalition_ltr.pdf

The letter makes 5 key points:

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Group wants Las Vegas council to put trash contract up for bid

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(Nicole Raz | Las Vegas Review-Journal) – A citizens group launched a petition Wednesday urging the Las Vegas City Council to put its waste-hauling contract out for public bid.

Republic Services of Southern Nevada is currently the only waste-management company allowed to handle residential trash in the city of Las Vegas — and has been since at least 1985. Four years before the company’s current exclusive franchise agreement is set to expire, Republic is negotiating with the city for an additional 12-year contract extension.

“If they are going to issue another monopoly franchise, it should at least be put out for an RFP (Request for Proposal),” said Chuck Muth, president of Citizen Outreach, a grassroots advocacy organization focused on limited government public policy issues.

“Ideally, they would open up the market completely,” he said. “The odds of that happening, we know, it’s a longshot. That’s why we at least want to force Republic to bid on it like everybody else.”

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Screenings of award-winning documentary PRESUMED GUILTY set for next week in New Orleans, Las Vegas

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Film exposes new allegations of Swiss prosecutorial misconduct in the case connected with Belgian Jacques de Groote, 89, a former high ranking representative of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank.

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Following successful screenings in Switzerland, London and Brussels, the award-winning documentary PRESUMED GUILTY will be screened in the U.S. next week in both New Orleans and Las Vegas.

PRESUMED GUILTY is an award-winning documentary that exposes new allegations of Swiss prosecutorial misconduct in the case connected with Belgian Jacques de Groote, 89, a former high ranking representative of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank.

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Citizen Outreach Joins Coalition Calling for Pro-Growth Tax Reform

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Posted by Alexander Hendrie on Monday, February 6th, 2017

In the letter, addressed to House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas), the coalition urges significant progress to be made in the first hundred days of the Trump administration:

“Given the importance of this issue, we believe it is imperative that the House of Representatives make significant progress in the first hundred days of the Trump administration toward passing comprehensive, pro-growth tax reform.

“Passage of tax reform that simplifies and updates the code is key toward encouraging economic growth, creating more jobs and higher wages, and promoting innovation and ingenuity. The release of your ‘Better Way’ tax reform blueprint last year was the first step in achieving this important goal, and we encourage you to continue working to ensure tax reform becomes a reality.”

Pro-growth tax reform should lower rates for families and businesses across the board, simplify the byzantine code, ensures small businesses and corporations can compete, and make lasting, permanent changes to law.

The full letter is below and can be found here.

February 6, 2017

The Honorable Paul D. Ryan
Speaker of the House
U.S. House of Representatives
H-232, The Capitol
Washington, D.C. 20515

The Honorable Kevin Brady
Chairman, Committee on Ways and Means
U.S. House of Representatives
1102 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C, 20515

Dear Speaker Ryan & Chairman Brady:

On behalf of the undersigned organizations, we write in support of your efforts to pass pro-growth tax reform into law in 2017.

Given the importance of this issue, we believe it is imperative that the House of Representatives make significant progress in the first hundred days of the Trump administration toward passing comprehensive, pro-growth tax reform.

Passage of tax reform that simplifies and updates the code is key toward encouraging economic growth, creating more jobs and higher wages, and promoting innovation and ingenuity. The release of your “Better Way” tax reform blueprint last year was the first step in achieving this important goal, and we encourage you to continue working to ensure tax reform becomes a reality.

As you know, it has been more than 30 years since comprehensive tax reform was last signed into law. Since then, our foreign competitors have drastically reduced their rates, simplified their codes, and updated their systems to be globally competitive. Meanwhile, our tax code has almost tripled in size and has failed to keep pace with the norms of global tax competition.

Tax reform should be viewed as an opportunity to reduce rates for all taxpayers while also repealing many of the discriminatory and preferential provisions in the code in favor of a broader base. Lawmakers also ought to repeal a number of unnecessary taxes like the Death Tax and the Alternative Minimum Tax, which only add to the complexity of the system.

On the business side, tax reform should ensure our small businesses and corporations can compete against foreign competitors, while also ending the confusing, arbitrary system of depreciation in favor of immediate, full expensing of business investments.

Where possible, changes to the tax code should be permanent changes to law. When lawmakers have enacted short-term tax legislation in the past, it has inevitably come under threat in the future by legislators that want to increase the scope and size of government through higher taxes. In contrast, permanent legislation will give families and businesses much-needed certainty and will help contribute to a stronger economy.

Today, pro-growth tax reform is needed more than ever. It is imperative that lawmakers prioritize an overhaul of the tax code in 2017 and make significant progress in the first hundred days of the Trump administration.

Sincerely,

Grover Norquist
President, Americans for Tax Reform

Chuck Muth
President, Citizen Outreach (Nevada)

Pete Sepp
President, National Taxpayers Union

James L. Martin
Founder & Chairman, 60 Plus Association

Dan Weber
President, Association of Mature American Citizens

Lindsey Boyd
Policy Director, Beacon Center of Tennessee

Jim Waters
President, Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions (Kentucky)

Tom Schatz
President, Council for Citizens Against Government Waste

Chip Faulkner
Citizens For Limited Taxation (Massachusetts)

Katie McAuliffe
Executive Director, Digital Liberty

Palmer Schoening
Chairman, Family Business Coalition

Adam Brandon
President and CEO, FreedomWorks

Mario H. Lopez
President, Hispanic Leadership Fund

Carrie L. Lukas
Managing Director, Independent Women’s Forum

Heather R. Higgins
President and CEO, Independent Women’s Voice

Andrew Langer
President, Institute for Liberty

Dr. Robert McClure
President and CEO, The James Madison Institute (Florida)

Lisa B. Nelson
President and CEO, Jeffersonian Project

Brett Healy
President, The John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy (Wisconsin)

Allen Gutierrez
National Executive Director, The Latino Coalition

Seton Motley
President, Less Government

Colin Hanna
President, Let Freedom Ring

Dee Hodges
President, Maryland Taxpayers Association ​

Brian McClung
Chair, Minnesota Center-Right Coalition

Jordan Harris
Executive Director, Pegasus Institute (Kentucky)

Charlie Gerow
CEO, Quantum Communications (Pennsylvania)

Paul J. Gessing
President, Rio Grande Foundation (New Mexico)

Andrew Moylan
Executive Director, R Street Institute

Karen Kerrigan
President & CEO, Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council

David Williams
President, Taxpayers Protection Alliance

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