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Americans for Prosperity Responds to Election Results
November 6, 2008
"There will be many battles to wage for free-market principles in the upcoming months, but we will find common ground with Obama on tax cuts, earmark reform, and greater transparency and accountability in government spending.
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“Let the American Energy Ban Expire!” Says Americans for Prosperity at Capitol Hill Rally
September 18, 2008
WASHINGTON – Lawmakers on Capitol Hill can deliver a victory over the current Congressional ban on energy exploration by “doing nothing,” the grassroots free-market group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) said at its Capitol Hill news conference today. House and Senate lawmakers joined AFP to send that strong message at the two-week-mark in the countdown to American Energy Freedom Day – the October 1st expiration date of the current Congressional ban on offshore drilling and oil shale recovery.
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Sarah Palin stood against the Bridge to Nowhere. Why didn’t Obama and Biden?
September 11, 2008
AFP policy director Phil Kerpen recounts the history of the Bridge to Nowhere.
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Americans for Prosperity Launches Nationwide Hot Air Balloon Tour to Expose Economic Costs of Climate Change Legislation
April 21, 2008
WASHINGTON – One day before Earth Day, hundreds of citizens joined the grassroots free-market group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) for a rally in the nation’s capital to launch a cross-country hot air balloon tour aimed at exposing the unaffordable costs of proposed climate change policies. The nationwide Hot Air Tour will make its first stop on April 30 with AFP’s huge seventy-foot hot air balloon in Kansas City, Missouri, before stopping at locations in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and Louisiana, on its first leg. In all, the Tour will visit two-dozen key locations across the U.S. Visit www.CostOfHotAir.org for more information.
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Open the Books on Government - OpEd
March 14, 2008
Politicians at all levels of government, over time, more often than not become addicted to spending tax dollars with virtually no accountability to the taxpayers who fund their habit. Legislation has been introduced this year to provide taxpayers with the transparency and accountability they deserve, in the form of a free website for all taxpayers that will show how every dollar of their tax money is actually being spent.
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Taxpayer Advocacy Group Applauds State Senate for Passing Transparency Bill
February 28, 2008
PIERRE – Yesterday the South Dakota State Senate approved House Bill 1233 by a vote of 20-14. This was an important victory for the taxpayers of South Dakota and their ability to better know what is going on in their government.
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Initial Victory for Transparency and Open Government Reform Bill
February 12, 2008
PIERRE- Today the House Committee on State Affairs passed out of committee House Bill 1233 which would establish a searchable online database for detailed searches of state spending. Such a system would allow taxpayers to keep an eye on how state government is spending the public's money.
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Taxpayer Watchdog Group is Calling Out South Dakota State House for Passing a Tax Increase
February 4, 2008
“The State House passed a tax increase on South Dakotans last week disguised as property tax reform when it voted to change the 150% property tax rule,” Duane Sand, State Director Americans for Prosperity
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Taxpayer Advocacy Group Calls on SD Legislature to Open up State Spending to South Dakotans
January 15, 2008
SIOUX FALLS- Last week State Senate Democrat Leader Scott Heidepriem was quoted in the Rapid City Journal: "We don't understand why the growth of state government can't be capped...We want to shift priorities away from the bureaucracy and to education." Americans for Prosperity (AFP) South Dakota agrees with State Senator Heidepriem that state government priorities should shift away from the bureaucracy and to our state's priorities.
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AFP - South Dakota Honors Dr. Milton Friedman's Legacy
July 31, 2007
(Sioux Falls, SD) – Today, Americans for Prosperity of South Dakota honored Nobel Laureate economist Dr. Milton Friedman as part of the national Friedman Legacy for Freedom campaign. July 31st would have been Friedman’s 95th birthday.
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