Montana Has A Supermajority. What Now?
Montana Has A Supermajority. What Now?
"Restoring voters’ trust and confidence in government will require a legislative supermajority to focus on the fundamental building blocks of a free society."
"Restoring voters’ trust and confidence in government will require a legislative supermajority to focus on the fundamental building blocks of a free society."
"The fundamental issue at hand is clearly not who is in charge. The issue is that too many of our nation’s leaders lack a principled view about the role of government in a free society."
"Montana’s state government is showing how to make tax relief successful. Local governments need to follow that example. Permanent, long-term tax relief is made possible only through a commitment to spending restraint."
"The starting point for our future leaders should always be: how is government contributing to this problem? Address those issues first. The very last resort should be to turn to taxpayers."
"Universal Licensure Recognition could be one idea to boost health care access that both Democrats and Republicans can champion together, for the good of Montana patients."
"Not one penny of taxpayer dollars should go toward funding university programs that don’t yield positive returns on investment for Montana students."
"After decades of a ‘government cures all’ philosophy, this is the first sign that the ship of state government is beginning to turn, and power is being returned to Montanans to control their own destiny."
"Education shouldn’t be one-size-fits-all. Parents are demanding more freedom to make choices about their child’s education, and lawmakers should give it to them."
"Local government leaders should be laser focused right now on keeping the growth of spending within the bounds of what average taxpayers can reasonably afford, but often instead they are focused on spending every last dime from taxpayers they can get their hands on."
"Montana is at an important crossroads. We can either follow in the footsteps of California or chart our own path."
"As we approach fire season we should reject calls to abandon the science and instead double down on the best tools currently at our disposal — expanding active forest management to address our yearly wildfire crisis."
"If the problem with Big Tech is centralized control of online activity, then Big Government — the most centralized authority of all — can never be the solution."
"SB 101 gave DPC entrepreneurs certainty they wouldn’t be targeted with red tape from overzealous regulators, and it’s led to a booming market."
"With a regulatory sandbox in place to fast-track innovation, our state could become a destination for business nationwide."