State of Arkansas Archives: on Budget & Economy
Anthony Bland:
Use public policy to attract and create higher paying jobs
In terms of livable wages, Arkansas ranks near the bottom of all states virtually every year, he said. Public policy making must change to attract and create higher paying jobs. "They (Republicans) have older people in their families and they have kids.
They deal with these problems every single day. Republican voters know the importance of dealing with these issues and I plan to do that," he said.
Source: Talk Business & Politics on 2022 Arkansas Gubernatorial race
Jun 23, 2021
Asa Hutchinson:
AdWatch: Worked for lobbying firm after leaving Congress
The Democratic Governors Association said a group affiliated with it, "Jobs and Opportunity," has made a six-figure ad buy. The ad claims former Rep. Asa Hutchinson has a history of "wheeling and dealing" while the Democratic candidate, former Rep. Mike
Ross, displayed common sense & fiscal responsibility during his term. "D.C. lobbyist Asa Hutchinson has forgotten what Arkansas values look like," a spokesman said.Hutchinson's campaign criticized the Democratic group's new ad. "This ad is misleading
and hypocritical. They need to check their facts. Asa was practicing law in Arkansas while Mike Ross was voting for these very bills in Washington."
The ad says Hutchinson and the firm where he worked after leaving Congress benefited from the stimulus
program. "While Hutchinson and his lobbying firm were cashing in on a stimulus bill and the Wall Street and Detroit bailouts, Mike Ross was fighting for a balanced budget amendment and voting against congressional pay raises," a Ross spokesman said.
Source: Miami Herald AdWatch on 2014 Arkansas gubernatorial race
Feb 18, 2014
Asa Hutchinson:
Free enterprise is key to national prosperity
Question topic: Free enterprise and the right to private property turn mankind's natural self interest into the fairest and most productive economic system there is, and are the key to national prosperity.
Hutchinson: Strongly Agree
Source: Faith2Action iVoterGuide on 2013 Arkansas Governor campaign
Sep 28, 2014
Bruce Westerman:
Favors economic growth and cuts as opposed to raising taxes
Westerman indicates support of the following principles for balancing Arkansas' budget.Q: Establishing a "rainy day" fund?
A: Yes.
Q: Issuing the early release of certain non-violent offenders?
A: Yes.
Q: Increasing tuition rates at public
universities?
A: Yes.
Q: Instituting mandatory furloughs and layoffs for state employees?
A: No.
Q: Reducing benefits for Medicaid recipients?
A: Yes.
Q: Privatizing certain government services?
A: Yes.
Westerman adds, "If state employee jobs are necessary then I do not support mandatory furloughs and layoffs for those jobs. If the state jobs are unnecessary then they should be eliminated to help stabilize the budget. Since Arkansas must have a balanced
budget then cuts will be required in many areas, taxes will have to be raised, or more income generated through economic growth. I favor economic growth and cuts as opposed to raising taxes."
Source: Arkansas Congressional 2008 Political Courage Test
Nov 1, 2008
Chris Jones:
Government not about running up bills and creating debt
Government should never be about running up bills and creating debt.
As governor, Chris Jones will be committed to being a responsible steward of our tax dollars and resources.
Source: 2022 Arkansas Governor campaign website ChrisForGovernor.com
May 26, 2022
Conner Eldridge:
Start doing something about $18 trillion in debt
Eldridge said that `in Washington, they brag the budget deficit has declined [and that] we should have a big party.`
He said the federal government's budget deficit is about $600 billion this year, and `in Washington, they say we wouldn't complain as much about them if we knew all the great things they were doing to help us. `In Arkansas we know better.
We know that we've got $18 trillion in debt and that debt has tripled from the time my opponent took office,` Eldridge said. `It is time we start doing something about it now.`
He said both political parties are to blame. `The facts are that somebody who has been there for over a decade does bear responsibility for much of what has happened,` he said.
Source: Democrat-Gazette on 2016 Arkansas Senate race
Oct 18, 2015
Curtis Coleman:
Work tirelessly to reduce our deficit & pay back $18T debt
America currently has a financial crisis written into law. We have over $18 Trillion of debt, and $127 Trillion in unfunded liabilities, promises we have made that we cannot keep.
I pledge to work tirelessly to reduce our deficit, and to start paying back our debt, as well as restructuring our unfunded liabilities so that we can afford them all.
As a small businessman and entrepreneur, I will be a champion of small business in the Senate.
I will never vote for crony capitalism, nor subsidies for politically connected friends, and will significantly reduce the red tape which is choking our economy.
Source: 2016 Arkansas Senate campaign website, CurtisColeman.com
Nov 11, 2015
French Hill:
Cut low-priority spending; smaller federal government
Washington is out of control and career politicians are bankrupting our country. The federal government needs to quit trying to do everything and instead, shift power back to state and local governments. The federal government is too big and spends
too much.The federal government must reform entitlements, cut low-priority spending, and stop performing functions best left to state and local governments or the private sector.
We need a cultural change in which the federal government is a smaller, less significant, and much less expensive and intrusive part of everyone's lives. We must enact a balanced budget
amendment to the Constitution and a line-item presidential veto power that could pass constitutional muster. These types of reforms are a necessary antidote to Congress's failures to exercise self-control.
Source: 2014 Arkansas House campaign website, ElectFrench.com
Nov 4, 2014
Jared Henderson:
Bring new ideas and out-of-the-box thinking to economy
He believes his economic platform also has a shot at transcending party lines. Henderson wants to assist would-be-entrepreneurs and business owners to develop tech and administrative support in town squares across the state. "Over last
20 years the world has changed underneath our feet. The economy has never been in a period of more rapid and dynamic change than it is right now. So, we need ideas that transcend outdated political debates. That's what I want to bring to this campaign."
Source: KUAR Public Radio on 2018 Arkansas Gubernatorial race
Dec 12, 2017
Leslie Rutledge:
$3 million to Quick Action Loan Program for small businesses
The Rutledge Record on Small Businesses:- Allocated $3 million to Quick Action Loan Program for small businesses impacted by COVID-19
- Pushed back against federal overreach and overregulation to maintain a fair playing field for businesses.
- Successfully overturned Obama-era Labor rules on overtime, which would have harmed Arkansas businesses and cost jobs.
- Worked to ease Obama-era lending rules, which had previously made obtaining loans near impossible for small businesses.
Source: 2021 Arkansas Governor campaign website LeslieRutledge.com
Nov 21, 2021
Mark West:
Market-led recovery better than stimulus
Q: Do you support or oppose the statement, "Stimulus better than market-led recovery"?
A: Oppose
Source: OnTheIssues interview of 2018 Arkansas governor candidate
Apr 28, 2018
Mike Ross:
AdWatch: Trillions of things in common with Pelosi & Obama
The Republican Governors Association unveiled a six-figure advertising buy for television and radio commercials that claim Ross is too closely aligned with President Barack Obama and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi to lead Arkansas effectively. It
specifically mentions the president's 2009 stimulus package. "Obama, Pelosi and Ross. Trillions of things in common. All of them wasted," the narrator says in the GOP ad. "That's the real Mike Ross."
Ross is the only Democrat to announce a run for governor, while Hutchinson, who lost the 2006 governor's race to Mike Beebe, who is term-limited, is running against Little Rock businessman Curtis Coleman for the GOP nomination. The filing season opens
next Monday.
Over the last two election cycles, the GOP has made gains by tying Democratic Party candidates to Obama and Pelosi, who are unpopular in Arkansas. In 2012 the GOP won control of the state Legislature for the first time since Reconstruction
Source: Miami Herald AdWatch on 2014 Arkansas gubernatorial race
Feb 18, 2014
Mike Ross:
AdWatch: Voted for $7 trillion in new debt and bailouts
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike Ross is the target of a new ad in the Arkansas governor's race. The ad comes from the Republican Governors Association. Its script: - Mike Ross and his Washington record.
- Record Washington debt.
Runaway Washington spending.
- Mike Ross helped bring liberal Nancy Pelosi to national power.
- Ross voted with Pelosi and liberals for $7 trillion in new debt.
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Ross voted with Pelosi for the Wall Street bailout, the mortgage bailout, and the auto bailout.
- And Ross voted with Pelosi to waste billions on Obama's stimulus.
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Mike Ross. His Washington record doesn't sound very good. Because it isn't.
Source: Arkansas Matters AdWatch on 2014 AR gubernatorial race
Feb 24, 2014
Natalie James:
Fund projects strengthening under-served communities
As a senator, she will:- Prioritize investments in internet and broadband to expand access;
- Support the funding of projects aimed at strengthening underserved communities and communities of color;
- Improve
existing water infrastructures while investing in green efforts to roll back pollution and strengthen communities; and
- Repair roads, bridges, and infrastructures in rural and urban communities often deprived of sustaining infrastructure.
Source: 2022 Arkansas Senate campaign website JamesForArkansas.com
Jun 7, 2022
Natalie James:
Prioritize assistance to small and minority businesses
As your Senator,
she will prioritize assistance to small and minority businesses and entrepreneurs.
Source: 2022 Arkansas Senate campaign website JamesForArkansas.com
Jun 7, 2022
Nathan LaFrance:
Politicians CANNOT control government spending; time for BBA
United States federal debt currently sits at $17.5 TRILLION dollars! Neither the Republicans nor Democrats are serious about getting our country back to financial health--both parties are beholden to too many special interests, and too worried about
re-election, to make necessary reforms to federal spending.Since it is proven that our politicians CANNOT control government spending, it is time for the U.S. voters to control it for them. A vote for Nathan LaFrance to the
U.S. Senate is a vote for a constitutional amendment which forces the federal government to adhere to a balanced budget every year.
A balanced budget will be achieved by phasing out and eliminating the vast federal
wealth-transfer programs and by significantly reducing the size and scope of the multitude of federal agencies and administrations in existence today.
Source: 2014 Arkansas Senate campaign website, LaFrance2014.com
Sep 30, 2014
Sarah Huckabee Sanders:
Phase out income tax; stop exponential growth of government
[On tax & spend]: "We have to begin to phase out our income tax, but we have to do it responsibly. We have to make sure we're prepared to make up that lost revenue," she says. "It's not going to be any one thing, but a collection of things that allow us
to do that. And it's going to take a little bit of time to get there. One of the other things we can do is stop the exponential growth of government. As conservatives, we have to be able to reign that in and pass those savings on to the taxpayer."
Source: KATV News ABC-7 on 2022 Arkansas Gubernatorial race
Sep 14, 2021
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