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Below is our updated bill review following the revenue bill deadline. We presently support bills marked in green, presently oppose bills marked in red and presently are monitoring bills marked in orange. (“Support,” “Oppose,” or “Monitoring” also contained in parenthesis for each bill). The status of the bills as ALIVE or DEAD has also been […]
COLUMBUS, OH – Americans for Prosperity-Ohio seized upon comments made by Ohio Auditor Dave Yost today to call for greater scrutiny of Governor John Kasich’s JobsOhio program. In remarks to the Associated Press forum today, Auditor Yost called upon the General Assembly to introduce legislation that would reaffirm the Auditor of State’s authority to execute […]
Grassroots group supports effort to ban any income tax in Tennessee. NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Americans for Prosperity-Tennessee (AFP-TN) on Wednesday commended state Senator Brian Kelsey (R-Germantown) for introducing legislation to permanently ban the so called “Hall Tax,” an outdated personal income tax on investment interest and dividends. “Senator Kelsey has been a leader in the fight to […]
When lawmakers tried to go around our state’s constitution, Americans for Prosperity and our activists were there to stop it. Colorado’s constitution requires any new taxes to be approved by the voters, yet last fall, politicians in Denver attempted to raise taxes without our consent during a special session. Thanks to the hard work of […]
Americans for Prosperity and our activists around the state led the charge to defeat a proposal to increase the sales tax by $3.5 billion. We were able to make the case that Colorado was missing opportunities to cut wasteful spending and that lawmakers should practice fiscal responsibility instead of making life harder for working families. […]
With the help of the LIBRE Initiative, Americans for Prosperity-Colorado and our activists were successful in passing legislation through both chambers of the state legislature to equalize funding for public charter schools. Prior to this legislation being passed, charter schools were chronically underfunded, despite outperforming many traditional public schools. This legislation puts all public schools […]
AFP-Iowa State Director Drew Klein recently joined WHO Radio’s Simon Conway to discuss Gov. Kim Reynold’s Condition of the State address and the future of tax reform in Iowa. Klein stated that Gov. Reynolds’s address “highlighted issues that needed to be talked about.” Gov. Reynolds stated that personal income tax reform needs to happen this year — […]
The Truth in Spending reform (HB 2099/SB 1051), sponsored in the 2018 legislative session by Rep. Vince Leach (Oro Valley) and Sen. John Kavanagh (Scottsdale/Fountain Hills), will protect taxpayers by requiring the Legislature to send out a news release warning taxpayers if it plans to increase state government spending faster than the projected rate of growth […]
