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PA GOP Continues “Obama-Casey Miserable Madness”
Third region highlights the Obama-Casey agenda’s barrier to job creation.
HARRISBURG, PA – On Monday, the Republican Party of Pennsylvania announced the launch of “Obama-Casey Miserable Madness,” a March Madness-themed bracket containing 16 of the worst policies promoted by President Obama and Senator Casey and the alternatives as promoted by endorsed Republican U.S. Senate candidate Steve Welch. The bracket contains four “regions,” each built around four important themes where the Obama-Casey agenda has done the most harm to our economic recovery and intruded the most on our daily lives. On Monday, the PA GOP unveiled the first regional bracket, “Failed on Energy,” containing four policies where the Obama-Casey energy agenda has failed Pennsylvanians. On Wednesday, the PA GOP released the regional bracket, “Failed on Spending.”
Today, the PA GOP launched the third regional bracket, highlighting President Obama and Senator Casey’s failed record on job creation. The “Failed on Jobs” bracket emphasizes the failure of the “card check” legislation, their support for tax hikes on job creators, union bailouts and “Cap and Tax” legislation.
Click here to see the bracket.
“Card Check”
President Obama and Senator Casey have both been avid supporters of job-killing card check legislation which would empower their union bosses with the ability to continue holding American jobs hostage. The bill Casey cosponsored would take away workers’ rights to hold secret-ballot elections when considering the formation of a union, and would make employees vulnerable to arm-twisting intimidation if they didn’t want to support that union’s creation. The bill would likely cost as many as 600,000 jobs.
The Welch Way: Jobs and Spending
Further Reading:
- • Red State: Bob Casey Better Read Card Check
- • You Tube: Obama supports the Employee Free Choice Act
- • Wall Street Journal: President Tells Unions Organizing Act Will Pass
- • Forbes: How the Obama Administration is Hurting Job Creation
- • National Right to Work: Obama Team: More Forced Unionism ‘Needed’
- • The Blaze: NLRB WANTS TO FORCE COMPANIES TO TURN OVER EMPLOYEE CONTACT INFO
- • National Labor Relations Board: Proposed amendments to NLRB election rules and regulations fact sheet
- • Congressman Joe Pitts: Card check will hurt freedom and cost jobs
Tax Hikes on Job Creators
Bob Casey and Senate Democrats proposed a 5.6% surtax on job creators and small business owners (a tax hike that President Obama was comfortable with) to pay for more of President Obama’s spending bills. Tax hikes on job creators stifle job creation and growth.
Instead of curbing massive government spending, President Obama and Bob Casey felt more comfortable asking small businesses to pay for their massive government spending, instead of forcing government to live within its means and promoting a true pro-growth agenda.
The Welch Way: Jobs and Spending
Further Reading:
- • Speaker of the House: How Senate Democrats’ Job-Crushing Tax Hike Threatens Small Businesses, Workers
- • AP: Democrats drop plan to give tax cut to employers
- • The Hill: Business groups blast proposed surtax
- • Tax Relief Coalition: Jobs Coalition Blasts Employer Surtax
- • NRSC: Bob Casey votes to hike taxes on Pennsylvania businesses while coddling captured terrorists
Union Bailouts
Instead of implementing pro-growth policies to combat rising unemployment, Senator Casey felt that the best use of his time would be to borrowing money to bail out his and President Obama’s union boss donors.
Senator Casey forced taxpayers to foot the bill for the mishandling of union pension funds – a tab that stands at a staggering $165 billion. Casey’s antics make it clear that he’s more concerned with bailing out his union buddies and donors instead of fighting for job creation in Pennsylvania.
The Welch Way: Jobs and Spending
Further Reading:
- • Fox Business: The Next Bailout: $165B for Unions
- • The New American: Proposed Union Bailouts: A Means to Buy Union Votes?
- • Washington Examiner: About Sen. Bob Casey’s union pension bailout and the multi-employer pension union racket
- • Open Secrets: PACs to Senator Bob Casey (2007-2012)
- • Daily Caller: The facts on whether Dems are in fact pushing a $165 billion union pension bailout
- • National Review: Bobby Bailout: Casey to Put Taxpayers on Hook for Teamsters’ Shenanigans
- • Wall Street Journal: The Union Pension Bailout
Cap and Tax
Despite our recession and lackluster economy, a priority for President Obama and Senator Casey was to promote “Cap-and-Tax” legislation to levy additional tax and regulatory burdens on industry, harming job growth and passing the bill on energy costs on to the American taxpayers.
A bill that Senator Casey declared would create “lots and lots of jobs” cost at least 315 Pennsylvanian’s their jobs in the last month alone. Cap and tax led to higher unemployment and higher energy costs for families and business.
The Welch Way: Jobs and Spending, Casey’s Keystone XL vote today is part of election year conversion
Further reading:
- • You Tube: Bob Casey says Cap-And-Trade will create “lots and lots of jobs”
- • NBC: Obama wants cap-and-trade passed
- • NPR: Toomey “Dismayed” By Power Plant Closures
- • Heartland Foundation: Why Pennsylvania’s Sen. Casey Is Wrong on Cap-and-Trade
- • Hot Air: Five PA coal-fueled power plants to close due to Obama administration regulation
- • PA GOP: Running on Empty: Casey’s Support of President Obama & Regulations Are Now Costing PA Jobs
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