AR Budget/ Government Spending/ GIF

Gov. Asa Hutchinson on pace for $1 billion spending increase in two terms

June 20, 2019 // 0 Comments

We now have six fiscal years of evidence of Governor Asa Hutchinson’s spending priorities. Based on the average of these six years, if we extrapolate out similar increases, [...]

Tax Reform and Relief Task Force Recommendations

June 12, 2019 // 0 Comments

Note: This article is revised and re-posted for use by the reader for the following three purposes: 1) Assessing the laws passed as “tax reform” by the 92nd Arkansas [...]

DHS Clown Car

May 15, 2019 // 0 Comments

Governor Asa Hutchinson has been focused on combining small state agencies into bigger agencies to make management of agencies easier. But, his big problem has not been the [...]

They Will Spend Every Nickle They Can Grab – SB155

February 5, 2019 // 0 Comments

Over the last two years the General Improvement Fund (GIF) has been constantly in the news and not in a good way. There were kickback schemes. Senator Jon Woods was [...]

Arkansas Tax Reform May Increase Administrative Cost of Government By $2.35 million

January 7, 2019 // 0 Comments

Smaller government and lower taxes – that is two of the reasons Arkansans made the Republican Party the majority party. But, somehow the legislature’s Tax Task [...]

Asa’s Reorganization: It’s about management

October 8, 2018 // 0 Comments

Asa’s Reorganization: It’s about management By David Ferguson Governor Asa Hutchinson announced his plan to reorganize state government. It will combine several state [...]

But That Is the Way Budgeting Has Been Done

August 26, 2018 // 0 Comments

High Spending & Lack of Accountability Arkansas’ budget process is designed for growth in government spending which makes Arkansas a high tax state and a high spending [...]

Legislature Abdicates It’s Budget Responsibility

July 31, 2018 // 0 Comments

State government spending is out of whack. Major spending decisions are bypassing the legislature and are being made by Governor Asa Hutchinson with the approval of just [...]

Tax Task Force Studying Cigarette Tax Increase

June 26, 2018 // 0 Comments

The Tax Task Force met again on June 20 and June 21 to further study tax proposals and ideas for reform before the 2019 legislative session. A report of recommendations is [...]

Former Senator Jon Woods … GUILTY

May 3, 2018 // 0 Comments

Woods Thursday 5/3/2018 – ConduitNews reports former state Senator Jon Woods of Springdale has been found guilty on 15 of 17 charges. In return for kickbacks, Woods [...]

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