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LANSING, MI – Americans for Prosperity – Michigan (AFP-MI) today applauded skepticism on a new corporate handouts bill that was considered in the Senate Economic and Small Business Development Committee. The grassroots group also challenged the committee to take up ideas that would truly spur economic growth and propel all businesses forward. SB 615 would […]
“America – we lead the world in access to new drugs and cures for cancer, AIDS and COVID. But some in Washington would put that at risk with a 95 percent drug tax and a loss of control over the medicines you need.”
Which one of these signs merits full First Amendment protection: a billboard providing the address of the nearest 24-hour urgent care provider or a billboard exhorting the reader to “Vote No on 15”? If you answered “both” then you’ve identified an anomaly in First Amendment jurisprudence, which would categorize the first example as “commercial speech” […]
LANSING, MI – yes. every kid., an education advocacy organization that works to give every student an individualized education, and Americans for Prosperity-Michigan (AFP-MI) today issued the following statements about a new lawsuit from the Mackinac Center Legal Foundation filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan that seeks to help […]
Arlington, Va. – Americans for Prosperity (AFP) applauded the House of Representatives for passing the EQUAL Act (H.R. 1693) in an overwhelming bipartisan vote of 361-66. This bill will end a well-intentioned but failed policy that has been reformed by Congress multiple times. AFP Chief Government Affairs Officer Brent Gardner issued the following statement: “Our […]
The Chicago Bears, who have played at Soldier Field since 1971, are looking for a new home. “Beware, though,” writes Brian Costin, deputy state director of Americans for Prosperity-Illinois, in a recent op-ed for the Daily Herald. The mayors of Joliet and Arlington Heights are looking to lure the team to their towns with the use of corporate welfare, […]
Lawmakers are considering two proposals, ostensibly related to infrastructure, that would spend trillions of dollars, worsening America’s health care outcomes and hiking taxes, explain U.S. Representative Byron Donalds and Americans for Prosperity-Florida State Director Skylar Zander in an op-ed for The Hill. The first proposal, costing $1.2 trillion, would contain little to do with roads and bridges — but the […]
LANSING, MI – Americans for Prosperity – Michigan (AFP-MI) is launching a multi-layered campaign to defeat a new corporate handouts bill being considered by the Senate Economic and Small Business Development Committee this Thursday. SB 615 would give $300 million in tax subsidies to large corporations. The campaign includes calls, door knocking, and targeted outreach […]
Over the next few weeks, members of Congress will cast several votes that could add trillions to the U.S. national debt. President Joe Biden and supporters of the so-called “infrastructure” package— said to cost $3.5 trillion, but likely to exceed $5 trillion — claim their proposal will not harm the middle class. They are wrong. Inflation, taxes, and energy costs would all rise […]
