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"Trimming $350 Million from a $16 billion state budget is small potatoes, not the sky falling. If anything, our federal and state governments should be focused on eliminating even more spending to protect taxpayers."
We believe it is a constitutional and policy imperative for Montana to implement a statewide student-centered funding formula design as the primary way to fund public education.
"In 1988, on behalf of America and with Mike Mansfield’s support, President Ronald Reagan formally apologized for the internments and publicly admitted they were not justified."
By eliminating the middlemen and bureaucracy involved in billing third parties, DPC providers are able to save patients money and focus on their health while also being radically transparent with their prices – a breath of fresh air in today’s modern healthcare world.
"What property rights are unequivocally not, however, is a license to control what others do with their own property."
Governor Gianforte and the 2021 Montana Legislature ushered in one of the most dramatic expansions of healthcare access in recent memory and made Montana a leader in free market healthcare. The Free Market Healthcare Hub maps where verified Direct Patient Care (DPC) clinics are operating in Montana. The Hub also links to other resources that...
"Education choice represents a fundamental shift toward recognizing student diversity and parental agency while maintaining our collective commitment to ensuring every child receives a quality education."
"Garfield argued that the nation’s financial ailments, the soaring prices of the Civil War especially, stemmed from the federal government’s monetary mischief."
While helping some in the short term, SB 542 / HB 231 fall short of the property tax relief Montanans desperately need and, in many ways, actually make our tax system worse.
"There is certainly freedom in being one’s own boss, but freedom isn’t free. New business owners will pay for that freedom in long hours, learning new skills, and spending lots of money on initial expenses."
The Private Property Protection Act affirms the fundamental right to use private property
"The Montana connection dates to 1908, when the young organization began distributing Bibles. It happened at the Superior Hotel in the Mineral County town of Superior, Montana, where the Gideons placed their first 25 Bibles."
"It’s clear the western frontier values that made America great – individual freedom, self-reliance, relentless optimism, a fierce drive to innovate, radical openness to opportunity, mutual respect for each other’s freedom – were still alive on the Montana House floor that day."
"Thanks to reforms like HB 466 and recent federal action, our leaders are cutting permitting red tape so we can build the projects our future depends on, helping to ensure that Montana and America’s golden age is ahead of us, not behind."