Policy Papers

Last week, President Obama proposed over $220 billion in new energy taxes in his 2011 budget proposal. I immediately blasted President Obama in a press release, but wanted to give you my extended thoughts on this critical issue.

Protecting our Right to Bear Arms

"Rob Wasinger is the best choice for Kansas Sportsmen in the first district. Wasinger's unwavering pro-sportsmen, pro-Second Amendment, pro-freedom principles will make him a strong voice for Kansas sportsmen in Congress." -- Lee Couture, chairman, Sportsmen for Wasinger
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Wasinger Outlines Energy Position

Wasinger Outlines Energy Position Says key is working together, developing wind energy COTTONWOOD FALLS -- Rob Wasinger, Republican candidate for Congress in the 1st Congressional District of Kansas, articulated his energy position at the NW Kansas Region Energy Collaborative, encouraging communities to work together with a focus on developing wind energy.
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Statement on Livestock Policy

Statement on Livestock Policy April 28, 2009 Kansas is known around the world as "The Wheat State" and rightly so. We produce more wheat than any other state and nearly one-fifth of the entire U.S. crop. We should be proud of our heritage as the greatest wheat producing state in the union. I certainly am. My ancestors first moved to Ellis County and grew wheat on their farm.
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Stop passing the taxpayer's buck

by Rob Wasinger
April 2, 2009

It seems we can't turn on the television without seeing the bankers and politicians responsible for this economic crisis passing the blame. Harry Truman used to say, "The buck stops here." Today, politicians pass the buck. And the bucks. A lot of bucks. And they're taking the bucks they pass from us.

Despite their failures, the politicians in Washington, DC seem to think they have the solutions, too. Unfortunately, those solutions are familiar: If only they could spend more, tax more, regulate more, and control more of the economy, our problems will be solved.Well, government is bigger, more intrusive and more controlling than it has ever been.