Jon Bruning continues with successful fundraising

Bruning raises more than Stenberg - Omaha.com

Police back Jon Bruning

Republican Senate candidate Jon Bruning recently announced that 74 county sheriffs and police chiefs have endorsed him.

Jon Bruning: Energized by the Race

“I’m in it for the long haul. I’m in it to win it,” Bruning says. “We’re going to keep working hard. There’s only four months to the primary, give or take, and so we’re just going to keep pressing on. I feel very good about the reception we’re getting from Nebraskans every day. They know they need somebody with the courage to go and change Washington and stand up to the standard way of doing business. They believe I’m that person and they’re right.”


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Jon Bruning up big in new poll

If the Election were held today, for whom would you vote?

Jon Bruning………………………………….…………………………………51%
Bob Kerrey…………………………………...………………………………….40% Undecided…………………………………………………………………………..9%


POLL: Magellen Strategies

State Treasurer Don Stenberg: Out of Control

Behaving like either a) a spoiled child, b) a politician not getting enough attention, or c) a political hack that lacks original ideas; State Treasurer Don Stenberg has said the following:


"Jon Bruning is focused on overturning Obamacare, cutting spending and balancing the federal budget," Stenberg said.
"And that's my platform too!!! Bawwwaa! Listen to me Nebraska!" OK, ok, he didn't say this last quote. But, clearly Don Stenberg has some issues that go beyond politics.

Begging Democrats to run against Jon Bruning

Kelly: Time for Dems to rally their party - Omaha.com

"I don't think the party is dead, I think it's in a sorry state. It's moribund."
---Left wing Democrat Richard Fellman, part-time professor of political science, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Jon Bruning continues to be tough on crime

Bruning unveils crime package


Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning on Thursday unveiled his 2012 crime package, which would address the designer drug known as "bath salts," increase penalties for concealing the death of a person and for negligent child abuse, and limit the number of lawsuits that could be filed by inmates.

Former Nebraska governor and senator Bob Kerrey ponders his bleak political future

Former Nebraska governor and senator Bob Kerrey said Friday he's exploring a possible far left-of-center run for the U.S. Senate.


 (Very) Late to the senatorial dance, ready for defeat, that's the Bob Kerrrrrrey way.

Jon Bruning Announces New Bills for 2012

Bruning Announces New Bills for 2012

Governor Dave and Jon Bruining

Revolution 21's Blog for the People: Hooterville to Omaha: Drop dead

The Founders on Taxation and Debt

by Jon Bruning and James Best

This has not been a particularly joyful season inside the beltway.  All we’ve seen is a lot of clamoring, to little effect. In the hinterlands, we hear the echoes of the politicians’ raucous debate about government spending, government borrowing, and government intrusion into our homes and business.  One side yells that the only solution is to tax the rich until they squeal, while the other side of the aisle insists we must reform entitlements or go the way of Greece.

What would the Founders think about all this? Here is what they said in their own words.

The people of the U.S. owe their independence and their liberty, to the wisdom of descrying in the minute tax of 3 pence on tea, the magnitude of the evil comprized in the precedent. Let them exert the same wisdom, in watching against every evil lurking under plausible disguises, and growing up from small beginnings. — James Madison

As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible: avoiding occasions of expensed by cultivating peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it; avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen which we ourselves ought to bear. — George Washington, Farewell Address

The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet there is, perhaps, no legislative act in which greater opportunity and temptation are given to a predominant party to trample on the rules of justice. — James Madison, Federalist 10

If we run into such [government] debts, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-suffers. — Thomas Jefferson

By any plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into debt, we ought to do the work of it, otherwise we use them meanly and pitifully. — Thomas Paine

Excessive taxation … will carry reason and reflection to every man’s door, and particularly in the hour of election. — Thomas Jefferson

If the system be established on basis of Income, and his just proportion on that scale has been already drawn from every one, to step into the field of consumption, and tax special articles in that, as broadcloth or homespun, wine or whiskey, a coach or a wagon, is doubly taxing the same article. For that portion of Income with which these articles are purchased, having already paid its tax as Income, to pay another tax on the thing it purchased, is paying twice for the same thing; it is an aggrievance on the citizens who use these articles in exoneration of those who do not, contrary to the most sacred of the duties of a government, to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.— Thomas Jefferson

If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when they are confined within proper and moderate bounds. — Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 21

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. — Benjamin Franklin

And here are a quote on the subject from a more current president.

No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay the taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil. It is your fellow workers who are ordered to work for the Government, every time an appropriation bill is passed. The people pay the expense of government, often many times over, in the increased cost of living. I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more. — Calvin Coolidge

Jon Bruning is Attorney General for Nebraska and past president of the National Association of Attorneys General of the United States. He is now a candidate for the U.S. Senate. James D. Best is the author of Tempest at Dawn, a novel about the 1787 Constitutional Convention. Look for their forthcoming book, Principled Action, Lessons from the Origins of the American Republic.