Legislature Celebrates “Arkansas Gives Day” With A Crony Capitalism-Themed Party
Last Thursday was “Arkansas Gives Day”: the General Assembly celebrated by approving a constitutional amendment that would allow the state to give even more taxpayer funding to corporations.
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Cotton: Exchanges Will Be ‘Open Season on Taxpayers’
Rep. Tom Cotton, who is challenging Senator Mark Pryor, took some time out of his busy schedule to visit with reporters on a conference call this morning. The main topic of discussion — Obamacare: I...
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The InvestArk Tax Credit: A Terrible Investment That Arkansas Made For You
Things that InvestArk isn’t required to create. Nearly half of the 45 projects funded with state incentives from 2005 to 2012 reviewed in a special report released Tuesday had “unfavorable cost-benefit...
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Good Money After Bad? Nordex, Part II
AEDC’s job creation predictions have a tendency to not exactly work out. “If at first you don’t succeed, just blow some more taxpayer money” seems to be motto of the Arkansas Economic Development...
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Report: Arkansas Terrible On Transparency
Arkansans who care about transparency in government received some bad news today. According to an American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) study on tax cronyism released today, Arkansas is one of...
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Texas Rethinks Crony Capitalism. Will Arkansas?
Grant Tennille, executive director of the Arkansas Economic Development Commission (AEDC), is probably best known on this blog for this quote in 2012 regarding crony capitalism: I say this all the...
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I’m Dreaming Of A Conservative Chamber Of Commerce
The 2014 mid-term results really did change something: they forced the Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce into acting conservative! From Talk Business: Former Arkansas GOP spokesperson Holly Wilson has...
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