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A Balanced Budget Constitutional Amendment May Be Our Only Hope
By Dr. Thomas Patterson | Over the last few decades, no force on earth has been able to halt the explosive growth of U.S. federal debt. At the conclusion of WWII, fiscal conservatives were aghast that our national debt had ballooned to $259 billion. By the end of the...
A Gas Tax Holiday Is a Gimmicky Talking Point with No Real Long-Term Benefit
By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | With Bidenflation guzzling through the pockets of all Americans, especially at the gas station, we have heard more and more politicians promoting the idea of a gas tax holiday. Regardless of how popular the idea has become or...
The Left’s New Ballot Measure Would Make It Easy to Cheat and Hard to Catch in Arizona Elections
By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | Since the 2020 election, the left has been accusing conservatives of spreading the “Big Lie”—a label attached to anyone who believes that voter fraud does occur and that there are legitimate election integrity reforms that require...
An Open Letter on the Tragedy in Uvalde from a Mom and Grandma
By Cheryl Todd | I am heartbroken over the evil that has overcome Uvalde, Texas. And I, as a mom and a grandma who has grandchildren in the Litchfield Elementary School District, am outraged that our system has continued to fail us. Over the last twenty years, we’ve...
Arizona Lawmakers Have Passed Key Bills to Prevent Future COVID Overreach
By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | The overwhelming majority of people are done with COVID restrictions. Just look at the reaction when mask mandates were put to an end on airplanes last month. Cheering. Celebration. Throwing masks away. There’s nothing...
How to Stop An Active Killer
By Charles Heller - Co-Founder, AzCDL | We have been struck by another tragedy this week in Texas. The cries go up, “Something must be done!” And indeed, it must. If we do not take active measures to stop this killing, the momentum will continue. Copycat actors will...
The Threat of White Supremacy Is a Sham
By Dr. Thomas Patterson | According to President Biden, “Terrorism from White supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today,” as he put it in an address to Congress. Attorney General Merrick Garland agreed, noting that “racially or ethnically motivated...
Red4ED Is One of the Most Expensive Failures in Arizona Political History
By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | Push a sympathetic message. Drum up a bunch of misguided support. And then aim for a ridiculous tax increase. That was the strategy from Red4ED after it launched a little over four years ago. In that spring of 2018, the color...
What Should We Do with the D and F Letter Grade Schools?
By John Huppenthal | In 2008, I introduced and passed legislation to grade schools in Arizona on the A through F letter grading system. The system was to be based on the test scores and academic gains of students. If I were king, I would abolish the system which I...
Our Schools Aren’t Competitive, but Money Is Not the Problem
By Dr. Thomas Patterson | America’s schools, including Arizona’s, are stuck in mediocrity. Our academic achievement indicators trail 20 of our Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) peers in every subject. It’s not getting better, either. It...
Proposed Earned Income Tax Credit Is a Trojan Horse for Universal Basic Income
By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | Last year, the legislature passed historic tax cuts. The package was fair, lowering rates for all Arizonans across the board. Despite an effort funded with out of state millions to block the package and place it on the ballot, the...
The Scheme to Bring a Commuter Rail to the East Valley Shows the Lengths Government Will Go to Waste Your Dollars
By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | If there’s one entity that specializes in giving people something they don’t need—or aren’t even asking for—it’s the government. So, naturally, while the country faces sky-high inflation and Arizonans make sacrifices in their...
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