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		<title>AR House Education Committee Keeps Revisionist History—“1619 Project”&#8211; Alive and Well in AR Public Schools?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2021 20:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In a voice vote on Tuesday, the Arkansas House Education Committee denied the advancement of HB1231 by Rep Mark Lowery (R-Maumelle), a bill which would prevent state funds from being used by a public school in Arkansas to teach the controversial “1619 Project” curriculum.  This bill is based on the idea that Arkansas tax dollars should not be used to teach a flawed and inaccurate version of U.S. history in Arkansas public schools. This article is meant for those interested in learning more about the “1619 Project” and how such a controversial “socialist” curriculum passed the smell test in the Arkansas House Education Committee yesterday with 17 Republicans on a 20-person committee. How committee voting works? With the “carefully crafted language” and excuses by politicians, the Arkansas state legislators’ “yes” or “no” votes must be understood in context.  Sometimes it is not clear whether he or she is “for” or “against” the behavior addressed by the bill simply by reviewing the vote?  In the case of HB1231, the reader should understand that state funds may be used to teach the “1619 Project” curriculum in Arkansas public schools unless this bill is passed by a majority of “yes” votes.   A “no” [...]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Judicial Races In Arkansas Spotlight</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Conduitforaction]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2020 18:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In many parts of the state judicial races are getting a lot more attention than normal. At least that is the impression we get from seeing conservatives talk about the races on social media, such as Facebook and Twitter. We’ve noticed three types of posts about the judicial races: Announcements of where the judicial candidates will be speaking; Statements of support for a candidate; and Warnings of a candidate’s bias. For example, a Facebook user warned of a judicial candidate’s bias by reposting the candidate’s own pictures of when he participated in a rally of the anti-gun group “Moms Demand Action.” Although judicial races are nonpartisan races, the election of judges occurs at the same time as the political party primaries.  Unless there is a runoff, judges will be elected on March 3, 2020 but not take office until January 1, 2021, almost ten months after the election. (Early voting begins February 17th.) If you vote in the Republican or Democrat primary, your ballot will include your nonpartisan judicial candidates.  If you don’t want to vote in either party’s primary, you can still vote in the judicial race by requesting a non-partisan ballot which is for the judicial races. We [...]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>RESTRICTING BUSINESS FOR NO REASON: How Arkansas is reducing the number of firearms instructors</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Conduitforaction]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2020 11:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Second Amendment]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[RESTRICTING BUSINESS FOR NO REASON: How Arkansas is reducing the number of firearms instructors 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 state some firearms instructors are leaving the business because of an arbitrary requirement that has no justification. Firearms instructors who teach the course for a concealed carry license (CCL) now must also offer an enhanced carry license training course each time they offer the CCL course. They must offer it despite it being unlikely many people will be wanting the extra license, and despite the entire enhanced carry law being a sham and a way to accidentally get in deep trouble. WHY THE ISSUE MATTERS You may be thinking, why should I care about this issue. Arkansas is a constitutional carry state (open or concealed without [...]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>“High-Tax Roadshow” Coming Near You</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2020 01:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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. Here are 10 things you need to know about their sales pitch for the tax: The Commission wants to convince you they need more money, but whether more money is needed for highways has nothing to do with whether passing another tax is needed. Having better roads is a question of how Arkansas spends current tax revenue. Every year the state runs a surplus and then says this is fun money let’s spend it. Now Arkansas is collecting record levels of tax revenue which means the surplus will be even greater. State politicians never agree to consider how to cut wasteful or low priority spending and instead look to taxes. The state wants to keep taxes high while spending hundreds of millions of dollars to pick winners and losers in business through economic incentives at a time when studies are [...]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Manage the Church Budget – Manage the State Budget</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2020 03:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 of the country church announced steps the church would take to reduce church expenses. You heard me right; the church would work to cut expenses in order to live within contributions. The steps included reductions in salaries and office hours, and measures to cut utility costs. Yes, the church teaches giving and urges members to support the church, but the leadership of the congregation was not going to blame its members for not meeting the budget numbers the leaders had set. Instead, the leadership would live within the means provided by the congregation. How I wish those church leaders were also running state government. Whenever a new “need” comes to mind, the answer of most Arkansas politicians is to immediately look for taxes [...]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CRAZY NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS FOR A REPUBLICAN</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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.[i] The tax would be imposed once a temporary tax expires in 2023. Isn’t that swell. The sales tax Asa wants under ISSUE #1 is in addition to these taxes he got passed in 2019: A tax increase on gasoline and diesel fuel (SB336)An internet sales tax you pay on your online purchases from out-of-state sellers (SB576);A tax increase on water bills (HB1737); A tax increase on tobacco products and e-cigarettes (HB1565), andA tax increase on your cell phone bills (HB1564) Asa’s Resolution #1 is crazy for someone claiming to be a Republican. Crazy, because Arkansas has one of the highest sales taxes in the nation.Crazy, because Arkansas is receiving record general tax collections (which doesn’t even include the new gas and diesel fuel [...]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Taxing Your Christmas</title>
		<link>https://conduitforaction.org/taxing-your-christmas/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=taxing-your-christmas</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Conduitforaction]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2019 11:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Every year many Arkansans go into debt because of Christmas spending.  There can be lots of expenses that come with celebrating the holiday &#8211; gifts for others, decorations to brighten your home, lots of food and desserts for family gatherings, and travel expenses. Some scrimp and save and go without during the year yet still end up in debt at the end of the year. It would be better not to go in debt, but we get it &#8211; it is a celebration. Have you ever thought about how the taxman horns in on your Christmas? Everything you buy is taxed at a high rate.  Worse, every time you put Christmas on a credit card to pay off over time, part of what you are financing is state and local taxes.  Next year when you are still paying the credit card company and it seems like the balance hardly goes down, think about the interest you are paying just on Arkansas taxes. WE NEED LESS TAX IN OUR CHRISTMAS! WE NEED THE GOVERNMENT TO QUIT ACTING ALL YEAR LIKE IT IS CHRISTMAS FOR THEM AS THEY SPEND OUR MONEY! What You Buy. Arkansas has one of the highest sales taxes [...]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Collateral Damage In Passing A Tax Increase</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Conduitforaction]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2019 13:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[2019 Legislative Session]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Income Tax]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Did you see the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette article about the new water usage tax on car washes? The new law is an administrative nightmare. Here is a link to the story. How could the Arkansas General Assembly make such a mess out of how car washes are taxed? The car wash tax change was tucked into broad legislation dealing with several other taxes. In other words, the car wash tax probably didn’t get the attention it should have. The legislation, Act 822 of 2019 (SB576), includes a whole buffet of tax changes. It has a big new tax hike, but also some tax relief for certain taxpayers.  The legislation included: 1. Making Arkansans pay an internet sales tax; 2. Changing the sales and excise taxes on car washes; 3. Reducing the state&#8217;s top corporate income tax rate; 4. An income tax revision concerning net operating loss carry-forward; 5. An income tax revision on the apportionment formula for multistate corporations; and 6. Changes to the sales and tourism taxes concerning accommodation intermediaries. One northwest Arkansas legislator who was feeling the heat for voting for the bill that made a mess out of car wash taxes said, legislators should &#8220;stop voting for bills [...]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Who Will Endorse Tax?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Conduitforaction]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2019 12:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Ballot Issues]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sales Tax]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Governor Asa Hutchinson says his top priority for 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. What he doesn’t want you to think about is: Arkansas’ sales tax is one of the highest in the nation In 2019 Arkansas passed gas and diesel fuel tax increases for highways Arkansas passed several other taxes in 2019 Arkansas is collecting record amounts of tax This tax is permanent and will be nearly impossible to repeal because it is being added to the Arkansas Constitution. If the tax fails, you will get sales tax relief in 2023 when a temporary tax expires. The temporary tax is to pay the debt for specific highway projects. Passing the tax is not just bad, it is crazy. ENDORSEMENTS You can expect the Governor to present a list of those who support the tax. But, the list won’t mean much since the endorsements will be from those who risk nothing and can benefit by playing ball with the governor. Although the list is not out yet, the usual suspects include politicians who don’t have an opponent, the Chamber of Commerce, and big [...]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why Don’t You Spend More Time Criticizing Democrats?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Conduitforaction]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2019 11:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[2019 Legislative Session]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[About Arkansas General Assembly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[About the General Assembly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gas Tax]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the complaints we hear is “Conduit spends its time criticizing Republicans and ignores the Democrats.” Mostly we hear this from the Republican politicians who vote like Democrats and don’t like being exposed. While Conduit disagrees strongly with the Democrat agenda, it is true most of our articles, both criticism and praise, focus on Republicans. And with good reason! Conduit’s focus is on Arkansas government, and there are so few Democrats in the Arkansas legislature they are largely irrelevant. Conduit’s focus is on Arkansas government, and there are so few Democrats in the Arkansas legislature they are largely irrelevant. Democrat legislators can do nothing without the Republicans providing most of the votes needed to pass legislation. Major legislation is all Republican sponsored, unless the Republicans decide to let a Democrat colleague get credit for a bill. Republicans have a super majority in the Arkansas House of Representatives, a super majority in the Senate, and have the governor’s office.  When the Arkansas legislature passes tax and spend legislation, it is sponsored, supported, and passed by left-leaning Republicans. When fiscally responsible legislation is passed, it is also because of Republicans. That is why Republicans get the attention, for good or bad. [...]]]></description>
		
		
		
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