Please contact House Speaker John Boehner. Tell him the people of Arkansas ask that he stand firm on our fiscally conservative principles.
Please contact House Speaker John Boehner. Tell him the people of Arkansas ask that he stand firm on our fiscally conservative principles.
The Capital Gains Reduction Act of 2011 (HB 1002) will be presented before Senate Revenue & Taxation committee this Wed. the 9th. (It has already passed the House and will likely pass the Senate if we can get it out of committee).
Allen Kerr’s HB 1019, to remove one year of unfunded retirement benefits for county and some city elected officials, will be heard in the Joint Public Retirement Committee in Room 130 of the State Capitol at 9:30 am on Monday, March 7th.
Representative Ed Garner’s HB1002, To Create The Arkansas Capital Gains Reduction Act of 2011, passed the House floor on a predominately party line vote.
This list proves that state government is too big and taxpayers shouldn’t have to pay some of these high salaries. Of the 29,930 positions on the list, just 267 earn more than $100,000 per year while 2,546 earn less than $22,000 per year, which is the poverty level for a family of four.