{"id":6939,"date":"2010-09-07T12:27:33","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T16:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6939"},"modified":"2010-09-07T16:58:24","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T20:58:24","slug":"cfif-launches-onemorevote-org-initiative-on-spending-budget-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6939\/cfif-launches-onemorevote-org-initiative-on-spending-budget-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"CFIF Launches OneMoreVote.org Initiative on Spending, Budget Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"

15 Years and $13 Trillion in Debt Later, A Grassroots Campaign For \u2018One More Vote\u2019 Starts Anew<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Washington, D.C. \u2013 The Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF) today announced the launch of the \u201cOne More Vote\u201d campaign and its accompanying website OneMoreVote.org<\/a>, designed as a grassroots-driven, online enlistment of activists across America focused on pressuring Congress and the administration to enact fundamental spending and budget reforms and change the wasteful tax, borrow and spend policies currently part of the culture in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n

The One More Vote<\/a> campaign is built on a foundation of both grassroots and legislative advocacy: activists become participants and supporters of the \u201cYour Vote, Your Voice\u201d coalition focused on registering spending and budget reforms as a top priority with lawmakers in Washington, while also presenting common-sense reforms that require a balanced federal budget and higher vote thresholds when raising existing taxes, imposing new taxes or raising the federal debt limit.<\/p>\n

The One More Vote <\/a>campaign name and concept is a nod to the last visible public battle over budget and spending reforms in Congress in 1995 and 1997: the Balanced Budget Amendment reform effort, a measure that fell just one vote short of passage.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to expert estimates, our nation\u2019s debt of $13 trillion will skyrocket to more than $20 trillion by the year 2020, or sooner\u201d said Jeff Mazzella, CFIF\u2019s President.\u00a0 \u201cThe fiscal policies being pursued by Congress and the administration only make matters worse.\u00a0 President Obama\u2019s budgets are projected to run up more debt than all other presidents in American history \u2013 from George Washington to George W. Bush \u2013 combined. Americans are angry with the status quo, ready to take action and ready to pressure Congress with budget principles that individual taxpayers already apply to themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

The One More Vote<\/a> effort lays the groundwork for real and meaningful legislation and allows voters and individual activists to become citizen cosponsors of the One More Vote agenda focused on reforming out-of-control spending policies and saving America from economic ruin.<\/p>\n

The One More Vote agenda includes what CFIF is calling \u201cThe 60% Solution\u201d reform package, which calls for a Constitutional Amendment requiring:<\/p>\n

\u2022 A federal balanced budget annually;
\n\u2022 A 60% vote, in both the U.S. House and U.S. Senate, to raise the debt ceiling; and
\n\u2022 A 60% vote, in both the U.S. House and U.S. Senate, to increase taxes or impose new taxes.<\/p>\n

Through OneMoreVote.org<\/a>, individual Americans are participants in the reform process by learning more about The 60% Solution, signing on as a citizen cosponsors and contacting Congress to urge their support for The 60% Solution.<\/p>\n

Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Join the effort here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Follow on Twitter here<\/a>. (@OneMoreVoteCFIF)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

15 Years and $13 Trillion in Debt Later, A Grassroots Campaign For \u2018One More Vote\u2019 Starts Anew Washington, D.C. \u2013 The Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF) today announced the launch of the \u201cOne More Vote\u201d campaign and its accompanying website OneMoreVote.org, designed as a grassroots-driven, online enlistment of activists across America focused on pressuring Congress […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1803,84,19,1802,71],"class_list":["post-6939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-balanced-budget-amendment","tag-congress","tag-economy","tag-one-more-vote","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6939"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6944,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6939\/revisions\/6944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}