Articles by Conduitforaction

New sales tax proposed on e-books, digital movies/music, and other digital code downloads

January 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

Part of the Governor’s 2017 tax plan has been to exempt military retirement and survivors benefits from Arkansas income taxes while paying for it with new tax increases [...]

Week 2 Legislative Scorecard

January 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

Conduit for Action Legislative Session Weekly Scorecard: Week 2 – January 23-27, 2017 Purpose: Conduit for Action, Inc. (CFA) promotes the reduction in the size and [...]

FOR: Eliminating junk food from the food stamp program

January 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

Conduit for Action supports House Bill 1035 by Representative Mary Bentley. The bill would eliminate junk food, such as candy and sodas, from the items that can be purchased [...]

Conduit for Action Weekly Scorecard

January 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

During the 91st General Assembly regular legislative session, Conduit for Action (CFA) will be tracking relevant bills in the legislature and will be scoring them. CFA will [...]

Asa tax plan: Giveth and Taketh Away

January 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

With Arkansas having a Republican Governor and Republican legislature, Conduit for Action was hopeful 2017 would be the year Arkansas would adopt real tax reform. We were [...]

PART 2 – How the Dr. King & Lee holidays ended up on the same day.

January 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

PART 2 – How the Dr. King & Lee holidays ended up on the same day. Guest article by David Ferguson This is Part 2 on how Arkansas made the third Monday in January a [...]

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr./ Robert E. Lee Day – How did we get in this mess? Part 1

January 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

Dr Martin Luther King Jr./ Robert E. Lee Day – How did we get in this mess? Part 1 of 2 Arkansas has a holiday on the third Monday in January to observe the birthdays of [...]

Legislator’s guilty plea spotlights problem of discretionary spending of GIF

January 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

Former State Representative Micah Neal pled guilty Wednesday in a kickback scheme in the awarding of General Improvement Fund (GIF) grants. The plea came at the end of his [...]

How far we have come: NOT

January 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

How far we have come: NOT by Joe Maynard Obamacare is in the news again and the new Administration will have its hands full with all of the disinformation, flatly false [...]

Your right to elect AR Supreme Court Justices still under attack

December 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

It is like a scene out of a monster movie where you think the monster has been killed, but in the next scene, when everyone has relaxed, the monster springs up and attacks [...]

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