109:, a grassroots organization working for lower taxes, smaller government and accountability from public officials. The Florida group maintains it has more than 140,000 members, supporters and contributors throughout the state. The issues the Florida Taxpayers Union focuses on include high taxes that undermine private market competition, state regulatory burdens, wasteful government spending and lawsuit abuse. The group also promotes more access to school choice for parents, private property rights, a taxpayer bill of rights to restrain the growth of government and increased domestic oil and gas production for energy needs.
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In 2012, Guetzloe was found guilty of two misdemeanor counts of willful failure to file tax returns. The two counts arose from
Guetzloe's failure to file tax returns for 2005 and 2006. Guetzloe accrued over $ 180,000 in income during each of the years he failed to file returns. At the trial Guetzloe
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In 2010, Guetzloe formed The
Phoenix Network and placed his long-running radio show on the network. The Guetzloe Report, which began broadcasting daily in January 1997, receives an average of 12,000 listeners a day with some shows reaching more than 50,000 listeners. In February 2011, Guetzloe and
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Florida First District Federal Judge Stephen Mickle threw out the state's electioneering communications law in 2009 (the law which Guetzloe was charged under), Guetzloe was sentenced to a 60-day jail term by Orange County Circuit Judge C. Jeffery Arnold in May 2011. Guetzloe claimed he was the
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who headed Ax the Tax, an anti-tax group in
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Florida Fruit and Vegetable Association. Two years later, he was appointed the regional director for the Florida Medical Association where he handled
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