The Arizona Free Enterprise Club today released the following statement on the efforts by the Phoenix City Council to address the ongoing pension spiking abuse: “The council is expected today to try to approve meaningless reforms that do not address the issue of...

Since our first session in 2006, the Club has successfully lobbied to reduce personal income taxes (10% cut for all brackets), cut the corporate tax rate (from 7% to 4.9%), reduce both residential and commercial property taxes, and now cut the capital gains tax rate...

The House and Senate sent to Gov. Brewer a bill to cut Arizona's capital gain tax.  Brewer is expected to sign the bill this week. The capital gains tax cut would allow taxpayers a 25% subtraction from how capital gains are currently taxed (as regular wages).  So if...

The legislative session came to a close and the legislature saw fit not to send a film subsidy package to Gov. Brewer, who was expected to veto.    

The film tax credit bill (aka subsidies for movie producers) is still alive, even if barely.  Seems some in the legislature are sympathetic to Sen. John Nelson's desire to ensure one industry become the beneficiary of massive tax breaks at the expense of everyone...

The Club opposed HB2060, which would have allowed Paradise Valley and Litchfield Park (among other small towns) to implement a new property tax. The bill, pushed by the town of Paradise Valley, initially would have allowed the Town Council to implement the tax without...

March 9, 2012 In response to the initiative filed today that would establish a new one-cent sales tax increase (once the temporary one-cent tax expires), Steve Voeller, president of the Arizona Free Enterprise Club released the following statement: “This initiative is...

HB2826 would consolidate elections so that all elections occur in even number years on a regular election day. That's a good idea.  Opponents of the bill, including Rep. Cecil Ash, argue that local governments should be allowed to have their elections whenever they...

Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-Phoenix) is sponsoring a bill that would from here on out prohibit the Arizona Corporation Commission from establishing policy - in most cases energy policy - and instead leave the policy making duties to the legislature. Opponents of the bill...

They are at it again. After multiple bad reports, and a program that ended (yes, a government program that actually ended), the film tax credit proponents are back.  Only this time, instead of a silly five-year program, this time they want to make it 30 years. This...

I watch MSNBC.  I watch Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell, Chris Matthews, the Ed Show - yes, I watched Olbermann when he was on MSNBC.  Don't really know why, but I suppose it has more to do with a desire to see if the Left's best and brightest can strike a chord...