By David Ferguson When I hear about efforts to drive someone out of business, it is almost always a bunch of crazy liberals in some other state. For example, New York City keeps working to keep Walmart out; San Antonio is keeping Chick-fil-a out of their airport, colleges are banning Chick-fil-a too; and stricter gun laws have led some firearms manufactures to flee liberal states. But, Arkansas has joined in to drive people out of business. In our supposedly red sta…
High-Tax Roadshow” Coming Near You The Arkansas Highway Commission announced it will have a series of twelve meetings across the state to sell you on the need to pass Issue #1 which is a one-half percent (0.05%) sales tax to be used for highways and roads. They said they will also be listening to the public’s suggestions on how to use the extra tax money.[i] Here are 10 things you need to know about their sales pitch for the tax: The Commission wants to convince you they need…
By David Ferguson Last Sunday during church it was announced that the church had a budget problem. Over the past few years the church’s expenditures had been greater than the amount of contributions from the congregation. Because of reserves, the church wasn’t in financial trouble yet, but action needed to be taken. What do you think was announced next? A never-ending stewardship campaign until the congregation was guilted into fully funding the budget? No. Instead, the leadership…
Have you made any New Year’s resolutions? Governor Asa Hutchinson has as far as elections and if you are a conservative, you won’t like them. Okay, he didn’t call them “resolutions.” Instead he called them his “priorities’ for 2020 … same thing. ASA’S RESOLUTION #1. Governor Hutchinson says his top priority for elections in 2020 is to pass ISSUE #1 which would impose a permanent one-half percent (0.50%) sales tax to be used for highways and roads. The tax would be imposed once a temporary ta…
