On Point of View today, It’s going to be super busy! Guest host Dr. Merrill (Buddy) Matthews welcomes his first guest, Dan Pilla. He and Dan will discuss Trump’s taxes. Up next is Bunni Pounds, she’s discussing how Christians can get involved. Then Tom Nelson, pastor of Denton Bible Church adds his perspective to the topic: Christians’ involvement in politics. His next guest is Carter Page. Dr. Page joins him to talk about the Russian Collusion Campaign. Buddy’s final guest is Grace-Marie Turner. They will discuss the new conservative proposal for health care reform.
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Founder & Executive Director - Tax Freedom Institute, Inc.
For over three decades, Dan Pilla has been the nation’s leader in taxpayers’ rights defense and IRS abuse prevention and cure. Regarded as one of the country’s premiere experts in IRS procedures and general financial problems resolution techniques, he has helped hundreds of thousands of citizens solve personal and business tax and financial problems they thought might never be solved. As the author of 14 books, dozens of research reports and hundreds of articles, Dan’s work is regularly featured on radio and television as well as in major newspapers, leading magazines and trade publications nation-wide. Dan is a frequent guest on numerous talk radio programs where he is heard by millions of people each year. His fast-paced interviews provide hard-hitting answers to even the toughest questions. His many media appearances include CNN, CBS, CNBC, Fox News, CSPAN, the CBS Radio Network, the USA Radio Network and many others. His books have been recommended by prominent magazines and financial publications such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Money, Family Circle, Investor’s Business Daily and more. Dan has written or contributed to major articles for Reader’s Digest, National Review, Reason, USA Today Magazine and others. The Associated Press once commented that “Dan Pilla probably knows more about the IRS than the commissioner.” The Wall Street Journal ranked his book, The IRS Problem Solver, as the number one tax book in America. Dan was a consultant to the National Commission on Restructuring the IRS. He works with numerous public policy research institutes and presented testimony to Congress on several occasions. His testimony to the Senate Finance Committee blew the lid off IRS abuse and led to many new taxpayers’ rights and protections. He was a member of the Editorial Board of the Road Map to Tax Reform Project, which drove the Bush Administration’s tax reform agenda. Dan is admitted to practice before the United States Tax Court and is enrolled to practice before the IRS. Dan is also the Executive Director of the Tax Freedom Institute, Inc., a national association of tax professionals.
Speaker | Political Consultant | Motivational speaker
Growing up a Pastor’s kid, Bunni had religion but she didn’t have life. At the age of 13 and 14, God met her in such powerful ways that she was ruined for “ordinary” Christian living and saw the power of the simple gospel.
A graduate of Christ for the Nations Bible Institute and later Dallas Baptist University, Bunni has been active in Christian ministry since she was a teenager – leading worship, songwriting, teaching the Bible, pastoring, doing missions and evangelism.
She finished her political science degree at the age of 32 as a homeschooling mom. Starting her political career as the campaign manager for U.S. Congressman Jeb Hensarling for over 8 years, she then launched her own firm, Bunni Pounds & Associates in 2015 to help elected officials and candidates throughout Texas.
At the end of 2017 when her former boss, Congressman Jeb Hensarling, announced his retirement from Congress, Bunni desperately tried to find a qualified and principled conservative leader to fill his shoes. Coming up short – she felt a call to run herself and plunged herself into a Congressional race that she never saw coming.
In the end – she made it through a field of 8 primary candidates into the Republican Primary runoff - a race of just two people - but came up slightly short.
Married for 23 years to Tim Pounds, they have 2 young adult sons – Israel, married to their Romanian daughter-in-law Teo, and Ben, who is about to marry Giulia, originally from Brazil.
Bunni’s greatest calling is to lead people into an intimate daily walk with Jesus. Through her adventures of walking with Jesus, He has opened doors for her to be a voice to our nation and the nations of the earth.
Senior Pastor - Denton Bible Church
Tommy Nelson is the senior pastor of Denton Bible Church in Denton, Texas. He has served on staff at Denton Bible for nearly 40 years. One of four boys, Tommy grew up in Waco, Texas, where he played football and baseball. Tom was the quarterback for the North Texas Mean Green and holds degrees from the University of North Texas (’73) and Dallas Theological Seminary (’82). Tommy has taught over 150 Song of Solomon Marriage Conferences nationwide and is the featured teacher for a number of video series and the author of several books including the bestselling Book of Romance, A Life Well Lived: A Study of the Book of Ecclesiastes, and Walking on Water When You Feel Like You're Drowning. He has also been a featured speaker for several national ministries such as Focus on the Family, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and FamilyLife Today. Tom married his best friend, Teresa, in 1972, and they have two sons, Benjamin and John Clark, who are both married and, together, have given Tom and Teresa six grandchildren.
Founder | Managing Partner - Global Energery Capital & Global Natural Gas Ventures
Carter Page, Ph.D., is founder and managing partner of Global Energy Capital in New York and Global Natural Gas Ventures in Oklahoma City. Specializing in energy and foreign policy, he is engaged in nationwide legal initiatives to repair and protect American democracy.
Page graduated with distinction from the U.S. Naval Academy, where he was a Trident Scholar. He holds an M.B.A. from New York University’s Stern School of Business, an M.A. in national security studies from Georgetown University, and a doctorate from the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies.
President - Galen Institute
Grace-Marie Turner is president of the Galen Institute, a public policy research organization she founded in 1995 to promote an informed debate over ideas to transfer power over health care decisions to doctors and patients. She has served on several federal commissions, including the Long Term Care Commission, the National Advisory Board for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Medicaid Commission. She testifies regularly before Congress, has been published in hundreds of newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and USA Today. She edited Empowering Health Care Consumers through Tax Reform and has contributed to numerous other books. Grace-Marie speaks extensively in the U.S. and abroad, including Harvard University, the London School of Economics, Oxford University, and the Gregorian University at the Vatican. She received the 2007 Outstanding Achievement Award for Promotion of Consumer Driven Health Care from Consumer Health World. In the mid-1990s, Grace-Marie served as executive director of the National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform. For 12 years, she was president of Arnett & Co., a health policy analysis and communications firm. She worked as a Washington correspondent for the Copley newspapers from 1976-1983 and received several Ring of Truth awards for her writings on politics and economics. She is a native of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Personalized Care: You and Your Doctor in Charge
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