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Occupational Licensing Depresses The Right to Earn a Living
Over the past 50 years there has been a gradual regulatory encroachment. This has had the effect of stifling competition, discouraging entrepreneurial endeavors, and keeping many people out of the labor market. It might sound like the expansion of federal agencies...
Club Releases First Round of Candidate Endorsements
Phoenix, AZ – The Arizona Free Enterprise Club PAC today has released their first slate of candidate endorsements for Arizona legislative races. After a series of interviews of candidates running for Arizona State House and Senate, The Club PAC has identified...
Voters Are Opposed to Funding “Clean Elections” Bureaucracy
The “Open and Honest” elections ballot initiative is overwhelmingly unpopular with voters when they learn that not only does the initiative fund politicians’ campaigns with taxpayer money, but also support a state bureaucracy to run the program. According to the...
Minimum Wage Initiative a Ploy to Unionize Workers
Currently there is a massive effort underway to get several “California-style” initiatives on the ballot in November. The Club encourages anyone approached on the street by one of these petition carriers to “decline to sign.” One of the initiatives likely to get the...
Poll Shows Voters Overwhelmingly Oppose Taxpayer Money for Politicians
News Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, June 9th, 2016 CONTACT: Scot Mussi: (602) 508-6088 Poll Shows Voters Overwhelmingly Oppose Taxpayer Money for Politicians, Proposed ‘Clean Elections’ Initiative Phoenix, AZ—The Arizona Free Enterprise Club...
Key Findings of Voter Attitudes Regarding Clean Elections Initiative
See the full Press Release on Voters Overwhelmingly Opposed to Taxpayer Money to Fund Politicians. MEMORANDUM TO: Arizona Free Enterprise Club FROM: dave sackett RE: key findings from a survey of voter...
Chamber Exposes Underlying Hypocrisy of Groups Pushing “Clean Elections” Initiative
Yesterday Glenn Hamer at the Arizona Chamber published a great piece on the defective and highly misleading "Clean Elections" ballot initiative, a measure that would substantially increase taxpayer money for politicians to fund their campaigns. The article included...
Growing Corporate Welfare Is the Wrong Kind of Competition
Brent Gardner, the Vice President of Legislative Affairs at Americans for Prosperity, published an article in the Wall Street Journal on the growing state and national trend of corporate subsidization. Gardner cites examples in states such as Washington, Texas, and...
City of Phoenix Fleeces Taxpayers Instead of Living Within Their Means
The Phoenix City Council just doesn’t know how to say ‘no.’ Not to a spend-happy budget, expensive union contracts, the latest and greatest technologies, insanely high pension rates, or new and expanded government programs. And certainly they can’t say no to higher...
Insight Founder Eric Crown on Government Picking Winners and Losers
Earlier this week, Insight Founder and successful entrepreneur Eric Crown published an op-ed on the growing use of taxpayer money to subsidize risky ventures by politically connected businessman. For years the Free Enterprise Club has fought against these types of...
Governor Ducey Signs Bill Ending Subsidy of Newspapers
Wednesday, May 18, 2016…today The Governor signed HB 2447 which eliminates the requirement for new businesses in Maricopa and Pima Counties to purchase advertisements in newspapers to publish their articles of incorporation. This bill has been tried for the last 15...
SB 1268 stops Federal Power Play to Seize Arizona’s Water
Arizona has always been a leader in water planning, and in many respects is decades ahead of our neighboring states in water management. For example, California would be Exhibit A on how NOT to manage your water resources. A major reason that Arizona is so effective...