We believed the lies and empty promises in large part because we trusted the institutions in our community. Our local school boards, police unions, and chambers of commerce supplied the endorsements in exchange for political favors, and we the voters supplied the votes. Big Business and special interest provided the funds in exchange for tax breaks and favorable zoning, and we the voters supplied the votes.

Our community is now at a turning point. We can end the coalition between the politicians and the special interest, and hold our public officials accountable. We can end the corruption and restore transparency. We can get back on track and give our community all we wanted in the first place, good schools, safe streets, and a good place to raise a family.

All this can be accomplished by voting for the conservative team in the Maryland Primary Election. It starts with a strong Republican Central Committee!
The Primary Election will be held on July 19^th, and Early Voting begins July 7^th and ends July 14^th

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The Cecil Business Leaders PAC was formed in 2011 by the Johnson Family, Williams family with David Williams taking the lead, and Alan McCarthy. This fact can be verified by the Maryland Election Board records. On this record you can see Alan McCarthy’s home address on Biddle street.

Al Miller continues to deny he raised taxes when we have him on public record voting for the tax increase and the Cecil Whig also published the tax increase in the public notice section of the newspaper as required by law. Remember Alan McCarthy also tried denying taxes on his re-election campaign and lost badly due to this as well as his association with Democrats. Al Miller is not much different this year. It is up to the voters to determine what the outcome will be for Miller and Coutz who both raised taxes with McCarthy and also supported by Democrats.

It will be very interesting to see if all of the marketing dollars from special interests and personal relationships/connections vs Millers actions on the tax payers of Cecil County will send him packing or endure more liberal polices like supporting liberal mandates and tax and spend policies.

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2022 Primary Election will be held on 
Tuesday, July 19, 2022.  
7:00 am – 8 pm 

Early Vote  Begins July 7, 2022 
and ends July 14, 2022 
8 am – 8 pm 

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• Rewrite our nation’s history.

• Indoctrinate American students in our public school system.

• Dissolve our traditional values of honor, liberty, and justice for all.

• Implement a Marxist agenda that unleashes socialism throughout our country.Americans had better kick these politicians fostering these ideas to the curb or we will eventually turn into China or the prior USSR. We need to get the corruption and pay-offs in the form of stimulus/incentives out of government. Remember real capitalism is about supply and demand based on needs and wants and not artificial stimulation forcing a particular market because a special interests wants it.

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Q: Do you consider yourself to be progressive, moderate, or conservative in your beliefs? 

A: I consider myself a conservative. I believe that a smaller government is a better government. Centralized government has a record throughout history of overstepping its bounds in times of crisis; ranging all the way from the excessive bureaucracy of Rome which the created Julius Caesar’s dictatorship to the New Deal brought to life by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. This pattern continues today with the COVID-19 rules and funding. It’s not the government’s role to support the public financially by taking money from their citizens and redistributing it to those they think need it more. The role of government is to help foster common resources that EVERYONE uses, and not a particular race, class, age, or gender because that would be discrimination. Yet, the government does that all of the time. Marx wrongly stated that society should redistribute from each according to his ability to each according to his need, which is the basis of socialism. But whoever gets to decide who needs what, and how much will always make the wrong decision. That power belongs to the individual along with the right to provide it for themselves. We know ourselves and our needs best.

Q: What is your position on Taxes?

A; Taxes are necessary evil required to fund things at the national, state, and local level which affect us all. This includes law enforcement, infrastructure, and other public services that have become part of everyday life. However, these public services continually grow out of proportion–it’s like a new one pops up every day as more and more Americans become more dependent on them. They think a public option makes what should be provided by the private sector less expensive because everyone has to buys in with their tax dollars, with no understanding of the impact on the quality of the service which generally goes down. This relates to my position on smaller government. As we continue to foster more government services, the larger and more expensive government and our tax burdens become. Eventually, the cost of government will price everyone out of their financial autonomy.

Q; What is your position on LGBT issues?

A: Live and let live… While these folks do not represent me, it is not my or anyone else’s right to infringe on their self-choices. America is the land of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is their personal business, not ours nor our government’s. Procreation helps our society grow, which means there will always be a need for heterosexual relationships. But at the same time, we should not necessarily be promoting certain types of behavior ostensibly as representation. The government should also not regulate marriages and churches, which would eliminate the issues surrounding gay marriage entirely. It would be up to the churches to handle, not the politicians. Often marriages are documented for governmental purposes (benefits and taxes).

Q: What is your position on abortion?

A: A life is a life. From the moment of conception to the moment we take our last breath, we are alive and we are human. When an unborn human is killed by abortion, we should call out what it is, a murder. I would only condone an abortion in extreme and special cases, such as when the life of the mother is at risk when the baby would not be able to survive or would suffer, or if the mother was raped. Abortion should not be an escape from the inconvenience. When we make a decision we suffer the consequences. An unborn baby is defenseless and should have more rights, and the mother should take responsibility for her actions (rape being an exception). Ultimately the mother will have to live with the decision to terminate, but the government should not be fostering this process with taxpayer dollars.

Q: What is your position on freedom of speech and freedom of religion?

A: I support the constitution as it is written. Be it speech, religion, or bearing arms, our written rights should not be infringed upon in any way. We need to allow Christianity to thrive again in our country rather than be shunned as it is now. I also believe communism is the underlying evil corroding the soul of America and it should be weeded out and destroyed. Communism directly opposes constitutional freedoms and has led to the ruin of many nations throughout the world. We as Americans have faced much turmoil as Democrats and even some Republicans try to instill policy and logic in a society based on socialist ideas.

Q: What is your position on legalizing marijuana?

A: Mind-altering drugs are not productive in any society. While I do believe every person is responsible for themselves and can do whatever they want when they want, it should not affect anyone else in their endeavors. It’s all too common to see people get so intoxicated they do stupid things that have the potential to hurt and even kill someone else or even themselves. I have yet to see anyone that is intoxicated be very productive in our society. The question comes again comes into play: what is the government’s role? The government’s responsibility is to enforce the law, and many laws are instituted to protect us from the adverse behavior of others. But how do you pull that off without infringing upon their rights? I mean, look at alcohol, which has many of the same issues with impairment but is legal as long as you are not driving. We still see drunk people stab and shoot people in their stupor. Alcohol is legally a drug for many reasons; an alcoholic and a junkie are the same things. We must be more consistent with our laws. Either we must legalize all mind-altering drugs, or ban them all. I would lean more towards banning in order to create a more productive society. Imagine how much better people could provide their necessities without feeding habits that can cost thousands of dollars every year. In a socialist society like the one we’re inching toward, we’re literally picking up the tab by subsidizing someone who comes up short on feeding their kids but never does without a drink. I won’t lie, I do enjoy a drink once in a while, but I am always responsible and I would not miss it if outlawed. People like to say that prohibition failed, but during the years it was in effect, the numbers for alcohol-related crimes and incidents bottomed out, and skyrocketed when it was lifted. I struggle a lot with this particular question because not everyone is an irresponsible user. Overall, the bad outweighs the good.

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I welcome everyone to reach out to Republican candidates and elected officials on Facebook, email, or telephone.

Our Cecil County Republican Central Committee is here to “bridge” the gap between the government and its citizens.

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America is a country built on life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Before all else, we know that philosophy is sacred as it permits anyone the opportunity to chase their dreams and create prosperity for themselves. Our forebears waged war against a large oppressive central government because they were being taxed too much and refused a system where your authorities could decide whether you win or lose.

Using the opportunity zones to give breaks to select corporations and raising taxes on everyone else slants the playing field unfairly. And this is all being done to the benefit of Stewart Properties who is buying these parcels of land at a cheap, developing them using your money, and then reselling them for hundreds of millions of dollars while we’re subsidizing it with our tax dollars.

I’m a small business owner myself, and I do business entirely out of state because the fees and regulations for serving clients here in the state/county are too stifling. There are many other small businesses who have opened and had to shut their doors because they couldn’t make it in an environment where the deck is stacked against them.

Corporate Welfare and cronyism might benefit the bureaucracy that wants to spend our money, but it’s not so good to everyone who is out of the circle of friends who want to work for themselves and chase the American dream. It just prices them out of sharing in Cecil County’s job growth and turns everyone else into their personal money farm.

And now we’ve got a primary going where a new candidate is finally saying enough is enough. Danielle Hornberger has promised that if elected, the tax hikes are being rolled back. McCarthy’s buddies and advocates say that will slow growth, but that isn’t true. Giving county residents a lower cost of living and more capital to spend will create growth by stimulating the demand for services. We don’t need big government to get the job done.

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It was Ronald Reagan who said that entrepreneurs and their small enterprises were responsible for nearly all economic growth in the United States. And he was right about this, because unlike their larger corporate counterparts, the small business by its very size has the most room plus incentive to grow and innovate.

America’s economy is based on commerce and has historically expanded on the creation of new goods and services for consumers. Those are more likely to be born from smaller enterprises and individual inventors than from a large company. When Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built the Apple I and helped pioneer the digital age, they were working out of their garage, not from a corporate office.

The same argument can be made about the inventors of the telephone, the television, the light bulb, and the automobile. And as new industries explode and grow, there are new jobs created by necessity rather than convenience.

In order to facilitate this growth, capital is required to invest. Under administrations that cut marginal tax rates; such as the administrations of Calvin Coolidge, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and now Donald Trump, being allowed to keep more money up front fast tracked economic growth and resulted in higher yields of revenue by the federal government due to more taxes being paid rather than higher taxes being paid.

This has been dubbed the Laffer Curve, due to the idea being brought to prominence by Arthur Laffer.

Often this is lambasted as “trickle-down economics” by critics, often Democrats who are either state-capitalists or syndicalists who want a more socialist system. They deride the philosophy insisting that the largest breaks are going to the wealthy, which is frankly not true at all.

Even under a flat tax code where everyone pays 10% of their earnings, the individual who makes one million dollars will pay $100,000.00 in taxes per capita. Meanwhile, the individual who makes one-hundred thousand will pay $10,000.00 per capita.

When you file your tax returns and have excess amounts paid in returned to you, the person who paid more per capita will receive more back per capita, based on the percentage that was paid in.

There rests the propaganda employed by the syndicalists who want to push America toward their Marxist fantasy. They use different terms with different meanings interchangeably to skew the narrative and make it sound like low tax codes hurt the little man.

They claim that the period of America’s greatest economic growth was when the top tax bracket was 90% without stating that tax deductions which had greater value than they had today gave taxpayers most of their money back. The standard deduction alone was equivalent in spending power to what $75,000 buys today. When they talk about what the minimum wage would be if it kept up with inflation, they are making the wrong point, and should be talking about what the deductions for everyone would be.

The likes of state-capitalism/cronyism and socialism draw closer logically to the narrative portrayal of trickle-down economics by the very nature of collecting high percentages of revenue and using it for subsidies and retirement funds.

What you pay into social security is definitely less than what you’ll be drawing back when you retire. If the dollar amount relieved from your paycheck was kept by you and placed in an interest-bearing savings account at your bank, you would not only keep the full amount, it would grow in value. And depending on your will, it will be passed to your children and grandchildren after you die.

The same logic applies to every government program. What you put in trickles back down on you while people who paid less or nothing get more than what was invested. It operates, as Marx put it, from each according to his ability to each according to his need.

But because the government views its own needs above all others, they always keep the largest share for themselves. It is an inherently corrupt fixture that serves the same role in a community that cancer serves in the human body.

State-Capitalists—the traditional standpoint of the Democratic Party and some who stand on the Republican side—is closely similar to Socialism as it pertains to taxation and the desire for a large centralized government to be in control of it all.

Technically, any measure of public influence on private citizens and their enterprises can be considered socialism, but in varying degrees. The truth of the term state-capitalism rests on the politician understanding that the business must flourish if he wants the government to get its cut.

That is why state-capitalists and socialists go hand-in-hand. Even Barack Obama who is often regarded as a Marxist and a Socialist by the left was nothing but a state-capitalist who used cronyism in his administration. His tax code allowed the largest corporations like Walmart and Amazon to thrive on tax dollars while paying as little in as humanly possible while their smaller counterparts and the individual American were crippled under the weight of it plus his regulations. It is why many manufacturing jobs were outsourced to Mexico and China.

If you’re wondering why Barack Obama’s GDP growth rarely passed 1%, there’s your answer.

Even the Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, POTUS 44’s legacy, was designed to give large health insurance companies guaranteed business without competition. If all had went according to plan, the entire market would have been consolidated under the largest companies like Aetna and Kaiser Permanente and nationalized by Hillary Clinton if she had become President.

The greatest economic growths happen when you empower the individual to innovate and become an entrepreneur. These are people are your friends and neighbors who are rooted in the community and have that interest in supporting it. The God-given inalienable rights of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness are the root of this.

While the larger company with a tax break might create a large amount of jobs in the short term, as soon as that incentive dries up and it becomes cheaper to do business elsewhere, they have nothing anchoring them down and laying everyone off when it’s convenient. But the government in this circumstance only cares that they can use these jobs as a handout and exploiting the tax code to stifle individual freedom.

Guest writer ~Ryan M. Farmer (Rising Sun)

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Its name derives from the verb capitalize, which has several meanings: to take advantage of; make the most of; benefit from; exploit and more. In this era, it is a growing trend for people to prefer the more negative definition and assert the notion that capitalism is evil.

But as a matter of economics, the issue is even more greatly confused. Capitalism is freedom and opportunity. If you work and earn money, that is capitalism. If you spend that money on living essentials and luxuries, that is capitalism. If you run a business and invest your capital where you see fit, that is capitalism. If someone else does these same things in competition with you, that is capitalism.

The power is ultimately yours, as is the risk of failure. That is the beauty of it.

For many today the opinion of capitalism is a misnomer. They attribute capitalism to a negative stereotype of greedy exploitative businesses that cheat the poor out of the scant amount of wealth they have and buy permission from the state to do it. This certainly exists, though it is not capitalism by any stretch of fact or argument. This is called crony capitalism.

Under crony capitalism industries thrive through validation of the state rather than the consumer, which is expressed through subsidies, exclusive tax deductions, and other methods of discrimination. Connections between those who operate the business and the statesmen who enable them to monopolize can be formed through any means, and in a cooperative symbiosis, the statesman uses his influence to help the business thrive, and the business finances the statesman and otherwise helps push their agenda.

True capitalism takes place on a playing field without state intervention or favoritism, and ideally under a tax code where everyone has low taxes and thus more capital to invest in growth. Minimal regulations also provide ample opportunity for new innovations. The presence of competition and consumer interest forces the market to regulate itself and brings development naturally.

Proponents of capitalism strike the word entirely and refer to it simply as cronyism. While critics of capitalism argue that cronyism is the inevitable end of capitalism, which deserves to collapse in favor of socialism.

By definition, socialism is the democratic control of the means of production, with state-directed planning and distribution. Many examples of socialism include third world dictatorships such as Venezuela, North Korea or Cambodia. However, proponents of socialism are quick to dismiss cases like these by what Marx described as state capitalism, where the state has full advantage.

The differences are in name only. Socialism requires the state to have full advantage ostensibly to enact the will of the people, though it never goes that way and will inevitably lead to ruin. It has done so in every nation that has tried it, because the money runs out or the state can’t balance supply with demand for services. When stability is threatened, more power is ceded to the state in order to fix the problem, and as the saying goes: “power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

Justification offered by socialists is that capitalism has failed to provide the needs of the people, but the goal of capitalism was never to provide for anyone. Capitalism means that you are able to provide for yourself and find your fortune. Capitalism rewards effort and innovation.

It might be sad that some people do with less, and critics argue it isn’t fair, but working hard only for your earnings to be garnished then redistributed to those who did not put in the same effort is not fair either, no matter how you paint it. And income inequality is worst in areas where the critics of capitalism are in power, ironically enough.

Differences between capitalism and cronyism are many, but unknown to an even greater number of people. Capitalism is what it is. It gives us power to do great things, if we have the will. No authority says you have to like it, and conversely it gives you the freedom to disagree, which is something to consider.

Guest writer ~Ryan M. Farmer (Rising Sun)

About the Author:
Raised by his grandparents, Ryan Farmer grew up in the Rising Sun area. When not at work as an assistant produce manager, he works on his novel and purveys local establishments. His passion is writing, and he enjoys video games and political commentary

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Recently Cecil County Republicans elected an all republican slate! Were they elected to become nonpartisan or were they elected to uphold the principles of the Republican party in which they ran upon?

The recent article from the Cecil Whig and also hearing these words for myself leads me to believe differently.  Much of the rhetoric is anti-Trump and keep in mind McCarthy had “Republicans for Bowers” [who is a Democrat] signs on many of his properties assuming it was in support. Later they were taken down as other Republican leaders condemned this action.

snippet from the Cecil Whig (12/4/2018)

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