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	<title>Kent County Families for Fiscal Responsibility</title>
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		<title>Rapid Silver Line Back From the Dead: It&#8217;s Still a Bad Deal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Kent County Families for Fiscal Responsibility (KCFFR) once again expresses its disapproval of the proposed Silver Line bus &#8220;rapid&#8221; transit line. KCFFR most recently opposed and was instrumental in the defeat of the Silver Line millage request in 2009. KCFFR also opposed the previous ITP millage request in 2007 and ran a “This Pig [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kcffr.org/2010/03/19/rapid-silver-line-back-from-the-dead-its-still-a-bad-deal/</link>
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		<title>KCFFR Opposed to Kent County Purchase of Development Rights Program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kent County Families for Fiscal Responsibility (KCFFR) entered the political discourse over the weekend regarding the proposed county funding of a purchase of development rights program. The group stands resolutely against the use of Kent County’s public funds to transfer from taxpayers to a few farmers.
The organization is the local taxpayers’ rights group that professes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kcffr.org/2009/12/07/kcffr-opposed-to-kent-county-purchase-of-development-rights-program/</link>
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		<title>KCFFR Celebrates Its Role in Saving Kent County Taxpayers Over $15 Million</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Kent County Families for Fiscal Responsibility (KCFFR), opponents of the proposed Silver Line, celebrated its defeat Tuesday night. The defeat is the second straight tax increase that the group claims credit in helping defeat. Their most recent campaign was the second GRCC millage request in August of 2007. The organization’s self-described mission is to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kcffr.org/2009/05/07/kcffr-celebrates-its-role-in-saving-kent-county-taxpayers-over-15-million/</link>
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		<title>KCFFR Makes Final Push to Defeat $70 million Millage this Weekend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Opponents of the proposed $70 million tax increase for the ITP (or Rapid) will be working this weekend and up to May 5th in nearly all of the cities voting on the ITP.
The organization’s mission is to promote good governance with a rational tax policy and has fought other millages in the past. Its most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kcffr.org/2009/04/30/kcffr-makes-final-push-to-defeat-70-million-millage-this-weekend/</link>
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		<title>KCFFR Hits the Streets to Fight $70 Million Tax Hike</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Opponents of the proposed $70 million tax increase for the ITP (or Rapid) began actively campaigning door-to-door today. Volunteers of the Kent County Families for Fiscal Responsibility began the grassroots work today with literature drops across the metropolitan area. 
The organization’s mission is to promote good governance with a rational tax policy and has fought other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kcffr.org/2009/04/26/kcffr-hits-the-streets-to-fight-70-million-tax-hike/</link>
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		<title>KCFFR Organizes to Fight $70 million ITP Millage Request</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once again, the Kent County Families for Fiscal Responsibility (KCFFR) has risen in opposition to another ITP millage request. KCFFR most recently opposed and was instrumental in the defeat of the second GRCC millage request in 2007. KCFFR also opposed the previous ITP millage request in 2007 and ran a “This Pig Stinks” ad on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kcffr.org/2009/04/21/kcffr-organizes-to-fight-70-million-itp-millage-request/</link>
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		<title>KCFFR Launches New &#8220;ITP Watch&#8221; Web Site, Campaign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today Kent County Families for Fiscal Responsibility is launching a new project called ITP Watch. We aim to shine the light on the finances and operations of the ITP/Rapid bus transit system. The ITP continues to lack transparency. ITP Watch will make available the information that ITP doesn&#8217;t want taxpayers to have access to: budgets, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kcffr.org/2009/04/14/kcffr-launches-new-itp-watch-web-site-campaign/</link>
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		<title>Kent County Families for Fiscal Responsibility Saves Kent County Taxpayers $9.8 million</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DATE: August 7, 2007
The Kent County Families for Fiscal Responsibility (KCFFR) helped to successfully defeat the second request by GRCC for a millage increase. The final margin of victory was 361 votes for those opposing the tax hike.
Despite August traditionally having low voter turnout in outlying Kent County areas, voters came to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kcffr.org/2007/08/08/kent-county-families-for-fiscal-responsibility-saves-kent-county-taxpayers-98-million/</link>
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		<title>Kent County Bureaucrats are After Your Wallet Again!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After Kent County voters rejected the Grand Rapids Community College millage tax hike in May, the bureaucrats are asking for nearly the same tax hike again only three months later!
Because the tax hike request was close, officials assume voters just made a mistake and really wanted to pay more in taxes. That’s why they are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kcffr.org/2007/07/09/kent-county-bureaucrats/</link>
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