Budget & Spending Issues
April 23, 2013 JBudget & Spending, Healthcare & entitlements
Dear Arizona Health Care Freedom Activists, Please join the Arizona chapter of Americans for Prosperity, the Goldwater Institute, Representative Warren Petersen, and other Legislators for a special press conference and rally this Thursday, April 25th at the Arizona State Capitol. At the rally, you will hear experts and lawmakers explain why expanding Medicaid in Arizona [...]
March 15, 2013 JBudget & Spending, Healthcare & entitlements
LINK TO PAST SCORECARDS — STATE & LOCAL GOVERNMENT AFP-Arizona’s state legislative policy plan for this year and the scoring rubric for our 2013 Legislative Scorecard are available here: 2013 Legislative Agenda, updated 15 March 2013 The 2013 scorecard will be the 29th annual scorecard put out by AFP-Arizona and the Arizona Federation of Taxpayers. (Read [...]
March 13, 2013 JBudget & Spending, Healthcare & entitlements
February 25, 2013 JBudget & Spending, Labor, Education & Pensions
IMPORTANT ACTION ALERT To all Arizona Taxpayers, Last Thursday (February 21), four GOP state senators failed to do the right thing by Arizona’s taxpayers, preventing SB 1182, a Paycheck Protection union reform bill (description below), from passing in the Arizona Senate. The following four Senators joined all of the Senate Democrats in voting No on [...]
February 14, 2013 JBudget & Spending, Labor, Education & Pensions
IMPORTANT ACTION ALERT To all Arizona Taxpayers, Government employee unions in Arizona are out of control. Government employee unions withhold dues automatically from employee wages, siphon political funds out of paychecks without safeguards for employees who disagree with the unions’ political agendas, and give workers paid time off (on the taxpayer’s dime!) to engage in [...]