Yeah I think I'm with Hoski on this one...need solid evidence.

Hoski will always want solid evidence if anything goes against his leftist leanings...then he discounts the evidence. Harry was endorsed by the lobbyist that said the NRA would back Reid. Would the lobbyist say that, and it not be true? It is a fact Reid gave to the NRA an expensive shooting range via a Pork inclusion in a bill. That is a fact. I think I would want my organization to TELL ME they are not backing the NRA. They know it is a controversial subject right now. They don't have their heads in the sand. Get them to fessup! No playin it both ways.

I may join the NRA after all. They seem to be reasoning & the NRA understands whats up.

I love what Chris Cox said not too recently. The mission of the NRA is to protect the 2nd amendment & hunting rights. ANYONE who supports the 2nd amendment & hunting rights should be supported. The problem with many of you guys is that you think anyone who is a democrat is automatically anti gun, anti hunting. WRONG.

The NRA's mission is to endorse or support anyone who is for the 2nd amendment & for hunting rights. I personally don't give a rats @ss if a democrat is for Obama's health care, whether he or she is for gay rights ect ect. If he or she is for the 2nd amendment & the right to hunt thats fine with me.

The republican party alone CAN NOT protect 2nd amendment rights & the rights to hunt. 2nd amendment support should come from both sides of the aisle if you are serious about protecting our rights. Their are tons of southern democratic politicians here in my state that would die before they support squashing the 2nd amendment. If Harry Reid supports the 2nd amendment & the right to hunt then so what if his other policies support the president. The NRA is for hunting & gun rights, the organization is NOT for the overall "conservative movement".

LDV

While I admire your stance on the 2A, the problem is multi-faceted! If a pol were pro 2A, but had other items on his/her agenda, he/she may be tempted to trade loyalties in regard to other political leanings!
If Reid is truly pro 2A, if he knew he could get either Obamanomics passed or Obamacare passed, would he tell an anti-gunner, "I'll drop my 2A 'for' vote, if you will give me a 'for' vote on Obamacare."

We don't really know what goes on in D.C.!

Bubba

Bubba,
I don't think pols trade "policy" votes for "constitutional amendment" votes,... 2 different critters.

I can still seperate politics from the 2nd Amendment. No matter who the NRA "endorses", it's still only their "suggestion". The NRA doesn't control any voter's hand. Last I knew, NRA was one of the groups politicians acctually feared.

Bohica

In just a few months, on January 1, 2011, the largest tax hikes in the history of America will take effect.

They will hit families and small businesses in three great waves.

On January 1, 2011, here's what happens... read it to the end so you see all three waves.

First Wave:
Expiration of 2001 and 2003 Tax Relief

In 2001 and 2003, the GOP Congress enacted several tax cuts for investors, small business owners, and families.
These will all expire on January 1, 2011.

Personal income tax rates will rise.

The top income tax rate will rise from 35 to 39.6 percent (this is also the rate at which two-thirds of small business profits are taxed).

The lowest rate will rise from 10 to 15 percent.

All the rates in between will also rise.

Itemized deductions and personal exemptions will again phase out, which has the same mathematical effect as highermarginal tax rates.

The full list of marginal rate hikes is below:

* The 10% bracket rises to an expanded 15%
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* The 25% bracket rises to 28%
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* The 28% bracket rises to 31%
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* The 33% bracket rises to 36%
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* The 35% bracket rises to 39.6%

Higher taxes on marriage and family.

The "marriage penalty" (narrower tax brackets for married couples) will return from the first dollar of income.

The child tax credit will be cut in half from $1000 to $500 per child.

The standard deduction will no longer be doubled for married couples relative to the single level.

The dependent care and adoption tax credits will be cut.

The return of the Death Tax.

This year only, there is no death tax. (It’s a quirk!) For those dying on or after January 1, 2011, there is a 55%
death tax rate on estates over $1 million. A person leaving behind two homes, a business, a retirement account,
could easily pass along a death tax bill to their loved ones. Think of the farmers who don’t make much money, but their land, which they purchased years ago with after-tax dollars, is now worth a lot of money. Their children will have to sell the farm, which may be their livelihood, just to pay the estate tax if they don’t have the cash sitting around to pay the tax. Think about your own family’s assets. Maybe your family owns real estate, or a business that doesn’t make much money, but the building and equipment are worth $1 million. Upon their death, you can inherit the $1 million business tax free, but if they own a home, stock, cash worth $500K on top of the $1 million business, then you will owe the government $275,000 cash! That’s 55% of the value of the assets over $1 million! Do you have that kind of cash sitting around waiting to pay the estate tax?

Higher tax rates on savers and investors.

The capital gains tax will rise from 15 percent this year to 20 percent in 2011.

The dividends tax will rise from 15 percent this year to 39.6 percent in 2011.

These rates will rise another 3.8 percent in 2013.

Second Wave:

Obamacare

There are over twenty new or higher taxes in Obamacare. Several will first go into effect on January 1, 2011.
They include:

The "Medicine Cabinet Tax"

Thanks to Obamacare, Americans will no longer be able to use health savings account (HSA), flexible spending account (FSA), or health reimbursement (HRA) pre-tax dollars to purchase non-prescription,
over-the-counter medicines (except insulin).
The "Special Needs Kids Tax"
This provision of Obamacare imposes a cap on flexible spending accounts (FSAs) of $2500 (Currently, there is no federal government limit). There is one group of FSA owners for whom this new cap will be particularly cruel and onerous: parents of special needs children.

There are thousands of families with special needs children in the United States, and many of them use FSAs to pay for special needs education.

Tuition rates at one leading school that teaches special needs children in Washington , D.C. ( National Child Research Center ) can easily exceed $14,000 per year.

Under tax rules, FSA dollars cannot be used to pay for this type of special needs education.

The HSA (Health Savings Account) Withdrawal Tax Hike.

This provision of Obamacare increases the additional tax on non-medical early withdrawals from an HSA from 10 to 20 percent, disadvantaging them relative to IRAs and other tax-advantaged accounts, which remain at 10 percent.

Third Wave:

The Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) and Employer Tax Hikes

When Americans prepare to file their tax returns in January of 2011, they'll be in for a nasty surprise - the AMT won't be held harmless, and many tax relief provisions will have expired.

The major items include:

The AMT will ensnare over 28 million families, up from 4 million last year.

According to the left-leaning Tax Policy Center, Congress' failure to index the AMT will lead to an explosion of AMT taxpaying families-rising from 4 million last year to 28.5 million. These families will have to calculate their tax burdens twice, and pay taxes at the higher level. The AMT was created in 1969 to ensnare a handful of taxpayers.

Small business expensing will be slashed and 50% expensing will disappear.

Small businesses can normally expense (rather than slowly-deduct, or "depreciate") equipment purchases up to $250,000.

This will be cut all the way down to $25,000. Larger businesses can currently expense half of their purchases of equipment.

In January of 2011, all of it will have to be "depreciated."

Taxes will be raised on all types of businesses.

There are literally scores of tax hikes on business that will take place. The biggest is the loss of the "research and experimentation tax credit," but there are many, many others. Combining high marginal tax rates with the loss of this tax relief will cost jobs.

Tax Benefits for Education and Teaching Reduced.

The deduction for tuition and fees will not be available.

Tax credits for education will be limited.

Teachers will no longer be able to deduct classroom expenses.

Coverdell Education Savings Accounts will be cut.

Employer-provided educational assistance is curtailed.

The student loan interest deduction will be disallowed for hundreds of thousands of families.

Charitable Contributions from IRAs no longer allowed.

Under current law, a retired person with an IRA can contribute up to $100,000 per year directly to a charity from their IRA.

This contribution also counts toward an annual "required minimum distribution." This ability will no longer be there.

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And worse yet... There's more!

Now, your insurance will be INCOME on your W2's!

One of the surprises we'll find come next year, is what follows - - a little "surprise" that 99% of us had no idea was included in the "new and improved" healthcare legislation . . . thedupes, er, dopes, who backed this administration will be astonished!

Starting in 2011, (next year folks), your W-2 tax form sent by your employer will be increased to show the value of whatever health insurance you are given by the company. It does notmatter if that's a private concern or governmental body of some sort.

If you're retired? So what... your gross will go up by the amount of insurance you get.

You will be required to pay taxes on a large sum of money that you have never seen. Take your tax form you just finished and see what $15,000 or $20,000 additional gross does to your tax debt. That's what you'll pay next year.

For many, it also puts you into a new higher bracket so it's even worse.

This is how the government is going to buy insurance for the 15% that don't have insurance and it's only part of the tax increases.

Not believing this??? Here is a research of the summaries.....

On page 25 of 29: TITLE IX REVENUE PROVISIONS- SUBTITLE A: REVENUE OFFSET PROVISIONS-(sec. 9001,
as modified by sec. 10901) Sec.9002 "requires employers to include in the W-2 form of each employee the aggregate cost of applicable employer sponsored group health coverage that is excludable from the employees gross income."
- Joan Pryde is the senior tax editor for the Kiplinger letters.
- Go to Kiplingers and read about 13 tax changes that could affect you. Number 3 is what is above.
LAST but far from least – effective January 1, 2013 – if you sell a property you will PAY A FEDERAL TAX of 3.8% on gross sales price. Doesn’t matter if you make a profit on sale – it is on GROSS not net
Worse part of this from my perspective is as a new tax it is an “opportunity” that the government can continue to exploit. No guarantee that the 3.8% won’t be increased in later years – remember social security was never suppose to exceed 1%. And of course there is the second shoe – since the Federal government is applying this tax, why not the State government too? As a potential source of large bucks – it may be too attractive for States to resist.
Why am I sending you this? The same reason I hope you forward this to every single person in your address book.

People have the right to know the truth because an election is coming in November! PLEASE VOTE THEM OUT!!!!!

Good, informative post! The NRA used good, commonsense on Harry's non-endorsement. That will lower my blood pressure some. I had an email into the NRA, and have not had a response after several days. That had me apprehensive. I do not like to donate to organizations that get tight lipped about concerns I have, and avoid answering key questions. That answers my concerns. Thanks for the good post.

They did? Wish I had known that when the NRA rep called yesterday. They said they do not endorse Reid because he supported the two women Supreme Court appointees that were against 2nd Amendment rights.

I called them, and they are not supporting Reid. I'd say the flack they got, the emails, and phone calls turned the tide. My GAWD! Reid has supported everything Obama, and Pelosi want. Nevada is about in bad of shape as a state can get. Harry is Head of the Senate, and his state has over 14% unemployment with home forclosures up 25% and 40% of all homes are either in foreclosure, or about to go into foreclosure. Hard to believe the guy could be re-elected.

we can only hope that this is the year that people wake up and get rid of him. nancy pelosi needs to go with him. they can go find a cave and never come out for all i care.