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LINCOLN, NE – Americans for Prosperity – Nebraska (AFP-NE) today urged legislators to support LB 670, a bill that creates the Opportunity Scholarship Program, a tax credit scholarship program that would expand educational opportunities for thousands of students in Nebraska. “Educational opportunity empowers more Nebraskans to help find the right education that fits their children’s […]
Proponents of the Export-Import Bank claim that the bank’s issuance of loans and guarantees to large companies is essential to international competitiveness and a thriving American economy. According to a new study from the Mercatus Center, that claim isn’t true. The bank has shrunk — for the better While the Senate confirmed new directors — which are necessary to approve massive loans — to the Ex-Im Board this month, the bank has […]
LINCOLN, NE – Americans for Prosperity-Nebraska (AFP-NE) today expressed disappointment in the Appropriations Committee for releasing a budget that increases spending, while not reforming ever-increasing state spending. AFP-NE believes the state should rein in spending and reform long-term structural spending and use free-market solutions to address the state’s challenges. “Our government should live within its […]
LINCOLN, NE – Americans for Prosperity-Nebraska (AFP-NE) today urged the legislature to oppose LB289 and support property tax reform that doesn’t include a tax shift or tax increases. LB289 would raise the state sales tax, eliminate sales tax exemptions, and significantly decrease the property tax credit fund. Americans for Prosperity-Nebraska supports an economically efficient tax […]
LINCOLN, NE – Americans for Prosperity-Nebraska (AFP-NE) today urged senators to reject the tax shift bill following the bill’s passage in the Revenue Committee. The bill would raise the state sales tax, eliminate sales tax exemptions, and cut the property tax credit fund in half. Americans for Prosperity-Nebraska supports an economically efficient tax system that […]
LINCOLN, NE – Americans for Prosperity-Nebraska on Wednesday urged members of the Revenue, Education and Nebraska Retirement Systems Committees to oppose AM1381 to LB289, a bill that would raise the sales tax by three-quarters of a cent and taxes on cigarettes and home purchases. The grassroots group also released a one-pager showing that eight counties […]
A new analysis from the Mercatus Center examining the Export-Import Bank and the aftereffects of a years-long lending cap confirms what we’ve known all along: businesses do not need the Export-Import Bank to compete in the marketplace. Since 2015, when Ex-Im last had the required number of board members to approve deals larger than $10 million, the Bank’s lending portfolio (both at […]
The latest report on Medicare and Social Security isn’t good. In fact, the trustees of the programs found that both are in a dire situation if substantial reforms are not made. Here are the three main takeaways from Monday’s Trustees Report: Social Security will be insolvent by 2035. Trustees said that at the current pace, the program will only […]
In 2017, Congress let an unfair set of corporate welfare policies – known as tax extenders – expire. They were right to do so. Tax extenders are special-interest handouts lobbied for by politically-connected industries, giving them an unfair advantage over others at the expense of everyone else. Government shouldn’t be in the business of picking winners and […]
