The Tax Poem
TAX Unknown author Tax his land, tax his wage, Tax his bed in which he lays. Tax his tractor, tax his mule, Teach him taxes is the rule. Tax his cow, tax his goat, Tax his [...]
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Providing Discretionary Funds Instead of Performing Meaningful Budgeting
Providing Discretionary Funds Instead of Performing Meaningful Budgeting Rainy Day Deception Part 3 Never, never, never rely on the title of Arkansas legislation! For [...]
Save it for a rainy day
SAVE IT FOR A RAINY DAY: Rainy Day Fund Deception – Part 2 Earlier this year Governor Asa Hutchinson called a special session of the legislature to give additional funding [...]
Rainy Day Fund deception – Part 1
Before Governor Asa Hutchinson called the most recent special session in May 2016 to find additional highway funding, two things seemed clear: Legislators were against [...]
Resigning from the legislature to take a state job – Your opinion?
Today we pose a question for you to ponder. Should a member of the Arkansas General Assembly be able to resign his or her office to take a lucrative state job? Or, is the [...]
Ban on legislators accepting newly created state jobs. Does it apply to Kelley Linck’s job?
Representative Kelley Linck (R) resigned from the House of Representatives to accept a job with the Department of Human Services. Linck became DHS’s “first chief of [...]
How a 1997 Power Grab is costing Arkansas taxpayers millions on pet projects
The 1997 session of the Arkansas legislature has been called “Grab Fest.” The media primarily remembers Grab Fest for legislation passed to financially benefit some [...]
Asa Hutchinson and Bill Clinton …
Governor Asa Hutchinson is already calling his third special session of the Arkansas General Assembly. He has been governor less than a year and a half. The special session [...]
Ethics “restrictions” help big lobbying interests
Much has been said about the deceptive Issue #3 of 2014, which is now Amendment 94 to the Arkansas Constitution. While it was promoted as an ethics amendment, the amendment [...]
Constitutional crisis or legislative inaction? Fiscal Session appropriation bills
CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS OR LEGISLATIVE INACTION? The problem of general law in Arkansas’ Fiscal Sessions Guest Article by: David Ferguson A BREWING CONSTITUTIONAL [...]
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