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<div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><b></b></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><b>bs </b><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.600000381469727px;">Foundation (AFPF) is pleased to announce James Valvo will step into a new role as Director of Policy. Mr. Valvo has been with the organization for over five years, including the past three heading up government affairs, providing policy analysis on a range of issue areas such as federal budgets and spending, taxes, health care, energy, and regulations.</span></p><p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.600000381469727px;">In his new role, Valvo will oversee all aspects of public policy analysis, coordinate policy between AFPF’s 32 state chapters and make recommendations that support AFP Foundation’s mission of advancing economic freedom. “James is a tremendous asset to our organization and the cause of economic freedom. He is the clear choice for the Director of Policy position. We’re glad to have his insight and leadership as we pursue our objectives,” said AFP Foundation President Tim Phillips.</p><p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.600000381469727px;">As Director of Policy, Valvo will be a valuable resource to members of the media seeking comment on legislation and policies that concern economic freedom, including: budget and spending, taxes, property rights, health care and entitlements, banking and financial services, energy and environment, and technology.</p><p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.600000381469727px;">Valvo is a Michigan native, a 2009 <i>summa cum laude </i>graduate of American University with a degree in political science, a 2013 <i>juris doctor </i>candidate at AU’s Washington College of Law and a 2008 Harry S. Truman Scholar representing the District of Columbia.</p><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.600000381469727px;">

Read more: <a href="http://americansforprosperity.org/newsroom/041612-afp-foundation-congratulates-new-director-policy-james-valvo/#ixzz2YqhaJ1os" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153);">http://americansforprosperity.org/newsroom/041612-afp-foundation-congratulates-new-director-policy-james-valvo/#ixzz2YqhaJ1os</a></span><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><b></b></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><b>nat rev online (newsmax widget)</b></p><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 28.799999237060547px;">he federal wind production tax credit (PTC) is scheduled to expire at the end of this year, offering the country a real chance to end the failed 20-year experiment of propping up a favored industry. Not surprisingly, proponents of the special tax break are working mightily to have it renewed. Conservatives and free-market advocates across the country are mobilizing to end this special tax treatment, and thus begin to restore an even playing field in energy markets.</p><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 28.799999237060547px;">Americans for Prosperity is just one member of a <a href="http://americansforprosperity.org/legislativealerts/wind-coalition-letter/" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">coalition of 64 organizations</a>that is calling on Congress to let the wind PTC expire. The organizations differ in size and scope. Some have millions of members across the country; others are small, local outfits focused on stopping wind developers from installing turbines in their hometowns. Some are tea-party groups intent on restoring the federal government’s limited size and scope; others are nationally focused, driven by concern about the government’s stranglehold on the energy market. But they all have one thing in common: They agree that it’s time to end special tax treatment for wind-energy production.</p><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 28.799999237060547px;" /><div class="article-ad" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 28.799999237060547px; text-align: center; width: 300px; margin-right: 20px; float: left;"><div class="ad blog_divider" style="width: 300px; height: 2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: url(http://c9.nrostatic.com/images/h-rule_dotted_2px_333_2010.gif); background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat;" /></div><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 28.799999237060547px;">We’ve heard all the tired arguments before about why this credit should be extended. Proponents of the wind PTC insist that the wind industry needs the tax credit for just a little while longer in order to become established. But when will it be enough? When will the wind industry stand on its own two feet? The wind PTC has been in place for 20 years, with no signs that the industry can survive without it. Wind power also survives thanks to state-level renewable-electricity mandates that guarantee the industry market share, driving up electricity prices for consumers. It’s time to take the training wheels off and end both of these special treatments.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 28.799999237060547px;">This isn’t the first recent campaign to clear the clutter from the tax code and block special provisions for favored energy players. Last year, the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit (VEETC) was finally allowed to expire, after the ethanol industry had received support since the 1970s. But ethanol still benefits from the EPA’s blending mandate, which needs to be repealed so that we will stop burning our food supply and driving up the cost of everything we eat. Similarly, the natural-gas industry has been working overtime to get the so-called NAT GAS Act passed to install various tax benefits for the production, conversion, and purchase of natural-gas-powered vehicles. Thankfully, so far the rent-seekers behind this provision have been stymied.</p><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 28.799999237060547px;">Many of the organizations that signed this week’s coalition letter were instrumental in both the ethanol and (so far) NAT GAS Act victories. Opponents of extending the wind PTC, in Washington and across the country, should take heart at these recent successes. The tide may be slowly starting to turn.</p><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 28.799999237060547px;">Americans deserve an energy policy that is economically viable and an industry that is strong and independent, not one that limps along and relies on the tax code and purchase mandates to stay afloat. If an energy source truly has benefits for American consumers, such as lower cost or higher efficiency, then it should show its value by competing in the open market for consumers’ dollars.</p><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 28.799999237060547px;">Congress would be wise to finally allow the wind production tax credit to expire. Millions of citizens and dozens of organizations across the country are calling on them to do so.</p><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 28.799999237060547px;"><span class="bioline" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><i>— James Valvo is director of policy for Americans for Prosperity.</i></span></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><b>==</b></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><b>
</b></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><b>James Valvo</b> is Director of Government Affairs at <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Americans_for_Prosperity" title="Americans for Prosperity" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Americans for Prosperity</a>, a free market advocacy group committed to advancing every individuals right to economic liberty and advancement. <sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=James_Valvo#cite_note-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[1]</a></sup></p><table id="toc" class="toc" style="font-size: 12px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); padding: 5px;"><tbody><tr><td><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; 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