While you have been worried about COVID-19 and about whether you will be able to make a living in its wake, the tax-and-spend crowd have been busy promoting Ballot Issue #1 to impose a permanent sales tax that will go into the Arkansas Constitution where it will be nearly impossible to remove. They hope you will forget all about your family’s economic woes and vote for the tax (or at least that you will stay home and not vote against it). Your November ballot will include Issue #1 to impose a new sales tax once a temporary tax for roads expires in 2021. Issue #1 will impose a permanent one half (0.50%) sa…
It is no longer an occasional occurrence. It is now a biennial event. For the third time since 2016 a state Representative has resigned from office to take a government lobbyist job. Every two years in June or July during an election year a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives has resigned to take a government lobbyist job The whole idea of state agencies and institutions using taxpayer money to hire a lobbyist to lobby other agencies and officials is offensive to fiscal conservatives, but that is an issue for another day. Here we only focus on showing the recent pattern of legislators…
Do you know who said the following? “It’s time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers.” Many will recognize it as having come from a speech by Ronald Reagan who became our 40th President. But did you know he said it decades before he became President? He said it fifty-six years ago in 1964. A lot has happened since his speech and our freedoms are at even greater risk. It seems our founding documents and the lives of the founders of our nation are primarily the subject of ridicule in public universities. There is an effort to deemphasize the docu…
Normally when we hear the two words “Coronavirus Rules” it is coming from someone who is wants stronger more invasive rules or it is coming from someone who is sick of their liberties being trampled. Don’t worry. This article is not about what rules should or should not exist. This article only looks at a complaint by legislators who say many of Arkansas’ Coronavirus Rules are not being adopted in a legal manner. The complaint was made by state Representative Dan Sullivan along with other members of the House of Representatives and Senate. The complaint was in the form of a letter to Dr. Nate Smith…
