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Nebraska 2012 Legislative Session
AFP-Nebraska is working with our over 28,000 grassroots activists across the state to promote limited government and free markets during the 2012 session of the Nebraska Unicameral. We will regularly update this page to share news and analysis from the Legislature.
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Lincoln Mayor Chris Beutler is resorting to a tired political playbook in his effort to convince Lincolnites to support his sales tax increase: threaten to cut popular city services.
Mayor Beutler has threatened cutting 90 parks including the Pioneers Park Nature Center; eliminate bus routes, closing libraries and ‘deep reductions’ in services for seniors.
To refuse the Mayor’s sales tax increase is tantamount to turning Lincoln into a ghost town with no services to offer its citizens, if you believe the rhetoric coming from City Hall.
However, without a sales tax increase the City still spends over $140 million dollars.
$140 million hires a lot of police officers, fire fighters, librarians and park maintenance.
READ MORELiberal group Bold Nebraska has filed a frivolous lawsuit designed to stop progress of the Keystone XL Pipeline in Nebraska.
As Nebraskans who believe in free markets and encouraging economic growth, we denounce Bold Nebraska’s lawsuit as one more step in a series of scare tactics and silly demonstrations to politicize an important project.
Let’s recall Bold Nebraska’s prior antics in opposing the Keystone XL Pipeline:
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- Shined flash lights at the Governor’s mansion
Today the national political news organization, Politico, published a piece titled Few States Set for Health Exchanges. The underlying premise of the article is the benevolence of Obama's HHS for allowing states to participate in the construction of health care exchanges.
In this news piece, more appropriately labeled an editorial, the writers are amused by states, such as Nebraska, which have not yet signed onto implementing ObamaCare:
Only a handful of the most militant states are likely to continue all-out resistance to federal health reform if the law is upheld — which ironically would mean the federal government would run their exchanges.
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