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The Frontier Institute has identified 6 new Key Bills and 17 Key Bill updates for the week of January 20-24
Our fundamental right to own and use property must be respected.
"In the first half of the 19th Century, the fur trade was as big a business as there was in the Montana Territory."
The ‘Stop Squatters Act’ will protect Montanans' fundamental property rights
The Frontier Institute has identified 5 new Key Bills and 23 Key Bill updates for the week of January 13-17
This week we identified 30 Key Bills focused on the 3 core policy areas we are watching: Education, Property Rights, and Judicial Reform.
"Despite clear evidence of the harm caused by ROFR policies—and their repeal at the federal level—12 states, including Montana, continue to enforce these anti-competitive measures."
"When we stop “thinking poor” and start actively working towards positive change in our lives, we position ourselves to obtain financial security and human flourishing."
"Currently, property taxation is justified as the primary way we fund essential public services. We should consider whether this justification is enough to outweigh the fundamental right to own property without government intrusion."
"If parents have meaningful options other than the single, public school to which they are geographically zoned, then they can hold schools accountable."
Statement from Frontier Institute
Montanans know that the spirit of the holiday should transcend a single day, December 25. As expressed by the reformed Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
"Instead of placing their thumb on the scale of enterprise and diverting investment to unsustainable projects, governments should focus on creating the conditions for privately driven investment to flourish."
The proposed ban is a symbolic, feel-good program whose net benefits are almost surely negative.