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Americans for Prosperity Ranks House Lawmakers on “Freedom from Foreign Oil” Scorecard
July 24, 2008
WASHINGTON – The grassroots free-market group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) today released its “Freedom from Foreign Oil” scorecard, which ranks U.S. Representatives based on their support for – or opposition to – policies that would lower gas and energy prices by increasing American supplies and making domestic production less expensive.
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Committee Submits Signatures for Initiated Income Tax Measure
July 21, 2008
Today, supporters of an initiated measure to reduce North Dakota’s personal income tax by 50% and corporate income tax by 15% will submit 15,667 signatures to the office of the North Dakota Secretary of State for signature verification.
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Consistency of Measure 1 Opposition Group Questioned
June 25, 2008
"It is clear that the AARP here in North Dakota has a slightly skewed view of AARP's national policies. Ms. Wurtz's statement that AARP opposes tax related constitutional amendments is disproven by the fact that they supported two such measures just last year. Perhaps this opposition should re-examine why they are really opposing Measure 1 before they do something they might later regret," AFP-ND state policy director Dustin Gawrylow said.
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Group Releases Preliminary State Surplus Projections
June 17, 2008
Bismarck, N.D. - Today, Americans for Prosperity of North Dakota released its preliminary surplus estimates for the current biennium.
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June 2008 Newsletter
June 11, 2008
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Grand Fork and Cass County Taxpayers Big Winners in Tuesday's Election
June 11, 2008
Voters Defeat Proposed Sales Tax Increases, Taxpayers Big Winners
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Taxpayer Advocacy Group Calls on Local Officials to Explain Automatic Tax Increases
May 29, 2008
BISMARCK, N.D. - During the last five years, North Dakotans have faced alarming increases in property taxes. Americans for Prosperity - North Dakota is calling on local officials to explain why most property tax bills are on the rise while mill levies are either the same or lower than they were just five years ago.
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April Revenue Numbers Show Need For Tax Cut
May 23, 2008
BISMARCK, N.D. - The lastest revenue numbers released by the North Dakota Office of Management and Budget illustrate with clarity the need for income tax reductions at the state level.
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Measure 1 Opposition Group Shortsighted
May 20, 2008
BISMARCK, N.D. - Recently, it was disclosed that a coalition led by the AARP (American Association of Retired Persons) will focus resources and manpower towards defeating Constitutional Measure 1 on this November's ballot. This measure would create a new, constitutionally protected, trust fund for excess oil tax revenues in addition to directing more funds to the general fund without legislative action.
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May 2008 Newsletter
May 8, 2008
The Bottom Line
Oil Tax Windfall Breaks $100 million for 2007-09 Biennium
According to the Office of Management of Budget, $71 million from oil taxes were deposited in the General fund by December 2007, since then, over $100 million has been deposited into the permanent oil trust fund.
If oil prices continue to exceed $100 barrel, the oil trust fund will be on pace to have a balance of nearly $700 million including the $136 million that was left in the trust fund last legislative session.
This is an absolutely huge amount of money that can be saved for future generations with the passage of Constitutional Measure #1 in November's General Election.
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