More fluff
Beebe had his health-care generalities yesterday, today Asa! has his banal pro-business platform, accompanied by the pre-arranged National Federation of Right-wing (er, Independent) Business endorsement. In short, it seems to suggest nobody should pay taxes but the biscuit cookers. Oh, and here's a hoot. Asa! characterizes his enterprise to peddle his government influence an entrepreneurial small business. IT certainly hasn't struggled on account of red tape. In fact, a little more red tape would be welcome to prevent public officials for trading their service for millions in penny stock riches.
Details on the jump.
HUTCHINSON NEWS RELEASE
Little Rock –
In a news conference held in the offices of his own business in
“As a business owner myself, I’ve experienced first-hand the challenges that entrepreneurs face, such as high taxes, cumbersome red tape, and the high cost of providing health care to employees,” Hutchinson said. “Small businesses – mom-and-pop stores, as some call them – create the majority of jobs in
In
“Whether it’s a local factory, a family-owned restaurant or farm, a new shop downtown, or any other small enterprise, state government should help these business grow and create jobs, not get in their way,” Hutchinson said. “Unfortunately, government is too often getting in the way – whether by passing more taxes and regulations or making it easier to seize the property of business owners.”
To encourage growth in the small business sector, Hutchinson laid out a five-point agenda focused on tax relief, reducing red tape and regulatory burdens, increasing access to affordable health care, ensuring Arkansas small businesses have equal access to procuring state contracts and strengthening private property rights in the state.
“The latest threat to small businesses is the trend around the country of local governments seizing smaller, more vulnerable business properties and handing them over to larger developers,”
“The high cost of high taxes is one thing standing in the way of an unprecedented era of growth and better jobs in
Comments
Max, let me get this straight:
If a labor union endorses a candidate, then thats legitimate news.
But if the NFIB endorses a candidate then it doesn't matter?
Posted by: Anonymous | June 29, 2006 05:30 PM
Give 'em hell, Asa!
Posted by: Anonymous | June 29, 2006 05:32 PM
Per the article, does A$a think it's only small businesses which are vulnerable to property seizures, said property then to be handed over to big business interests? Or does A$a not give a damn about simple homeowners who might suffer such seizures?
Must be pretty rarified air the man breathes.
Posted by: Doigotta | June 29, 2006 05:58 PM
Asa wants to protect homes and businesses. Today's annoucnement was regarding business.
Beebe has come out against more property rights on both business and homes. Period.
Posted by: Anonymous | June 29, 2006 06:04 PM
"Give 'em hell, Asa!"
Wow...anony$taffer didn't make me spew Cold Beer all over my keys...in fact, my gear should be sparking and smoking and the cat should be peeing all over the rug! I didn't even flinch...I didn't even 'urp!
Oh no...goodness gracious sakes alive! I'm not entertained by anony$taffer! Dammit! I was counting on it...dammit...
Posted by: rosso | June 29, 2006 06:23 PM
rosso-
any pro-asa comment is from a staffer?
Posted by: Anonymous | June 29, 2006 06:24 PM
What do you pricks mean by staffer? What staff? There are at least five anons on here giving you libs a hard time everyday. Not just one. You can't beat us. You know your legion is smaller all the time and ours is growing. Now throw us your best shot.
Posted by: Anonymous | June 29, 2006 06:37 PM
Rosso...You are a slob. Try to do better little man. You are telling us now that not only do you eat like an animal, you are now an alcoholic. Does your parole officer know about this?
Posted by: Anonymous | June 29, 2006 06:39 PM
Give 'em crap Asahole!
Posted by: Gaylord | June 29, 2006 06:43 PM
The AT would like you to think that Little Rock is overwhelmingly liberal and "I'll vote for anything that is a democrat". Conservatives exist in LR and don't embrace the drivel that the AT camoflauges as 'thought'. Some of us grew up in LR and never were 'enlightened' by the carpet baggers who settled here after leaving the north.
I grew up a democrat when that meant in Arkansas that some semblance of common sense and adherence to basic values was not something that the state party ran from. Today, the state party has unfortunately been a victim to some extent of the craziness that inhabits the national democratic party.
The party left me I didn't leave it.l
Posted by: Anonymous | June 29, 2006 07:15 PM
I agree. When I read the output of the AT and those who support it, I can understand why I left too.
Posted by: Anonymous | June 29, 2006 07:17 PM
I agree. When I read the output of the AT and those who support it, I can understand why I left too.
Posted by: Anonymous | June 29, 2006 07:17 PM
More fluff.
Posted by: Spirit | June 29, 2006 07:24 PM
Yes, this is all right in line with A$a's "Ye Olde Mom & Pop Influence Peddling/Government Contract Shoppe".
Oh . . . and to you 5 anons here giving us libs a hard time: surely you don't think your gonna convert any of us to the dark side, do you? Not here.
Posted by: hugh mann | June 29, 2006 07:29 PM
"There are at least five anons on here giving you libs a hard time everyday."
More like one nut with a broken record and five Sybil-like personalities.
Posted by: Anonymous | June 29, 2006 07:33 PM
Yeah, it's too bad the Democratic party in the south of my youth is no more. Adherence to basic values and Jim Crow common sense is what I remember. The party of that good ol' Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond was my hero.
Posted by: Missing our glorious past! | June 29, 2006 07:34 PM
Hugh Baby...We are not trying to convert you folks. We know that there is only one thing harder than the head of an ultra liberal. We just want anyone who reads this blog to know that there is another side that makes a whole lot more sense that what you socialists preach.. you guys want: High taxes for acheivers, class envy, "give me half of what you got" mentality. It ain't working for you all.
Posted by: Anonymous | June 29, 2006 07:36 PM
Wow! The brownshirts are out tonight huh? No torchlight parades going on anywhere?
Seig shrub!
Posted by: Gaylord | June 29, 2006 07:43 PM
Opps, that should now read,
Seig twig!
After today's slap-down day in court.
Posted by: Gaylord | June 29, 2006 07:46 PM
Yeah, but no one reads this blog except for 5 or 6 Hillcrest/Quapaw non-tax-paying hippie gay-loving flag-burning commies. And the 5 anons jerking in a circle.
Posted by: hugh mann | June 29, 2006 07:47 PM
As I vote with no allegience to either party, does that make me bi-poli?
Posted by: No Party Loyalty | June 29, 2006 08:07 PM
We know that there is only one thing harder than the head of an ultra liberal. Posted by: Anonymous | June 29, 2006 07:36 PM
Well? Aren't you going to go ahead and say it? The only thing harder is pronouncing nuclear, isn't it?
Posted by: Spirit | June 29, 2006 08:51 PM
Hey, I lived south of the tunnel and now live in the Washington area and I read this blog!!!
Posted by: Theresa Oldham | June 29, 2006 10:40 PM
Sometimes I look at these comments and wonder why the Governor doesn't consider this to be a legitimate newspaper...
Then I put my glasses on. "Oh, that's right."
PS: Please bring back Drew Pritt. Can someone set up a Draft Pritt for Mayor website? Y'all always had the Pritt lovers on here. We need the comedy relief.
Posted by: Prouster | June 30, 2006 01:02 AM
"Then I put my glasses on. "Oh, that's right."
You sure you got lenses in those frames? If so, have you thought about corrective surgery?
Posted by: Gaylord | June 30, 2006 02:31 AM
"Give 'em hell, Asa!"
I tried and I tried to let this slime slide but it sticks in the craw.
Harry Truman was a neighbor of mine. As a boy I watched the 'der alder' do his daily walks until they took him off the streets because the caustic old boy was likely to say anything in his advanced age.
We all knew what he really thought of Nixon at that time but he shielded his opinions out of respect for the office.
But I tell you in Missouri twang and clarity, if Harry were around today, he would not pass up the chance to speak up about the repub candidate Asahole!
He despised the churchies who he served whiskey to as a lad, in secret, in the backroom of a drugstore before they went to church.
ASA WOULD MAKE MR. CITIZEN TRUMAN SPIT AND CUSS!
Don't defame his name again.
Posted by: Gaylord | June 30, 2006 03:49 AM
Harry and Asahole! are as divergent as heaven and hell. Never the twain shall meet. Never shall the bloodsucker of the latter get away with invoking the hero of the former.
Anonymouse 5:32, you boy, lil feller, are out of your league. Go play poof ball with Asa.
Posted by: Gaylord | June 30, 2006 04:03 AM