"I-194 reaches far beyond election spending. It threatens ordinary, unpaid speech about a local property tax levy or ballot measure and asserts a dangerous claim that the government may condition existence under the law on silence about elections."
"The people’s elected representatives in the legislature, not an automatic property tax, should decide the appropriate level of funding for universities within the bounds of a limited, conservative state budget."
"It’s time to adopt taxpayer protections that cap government budget growth at inflation and require overcollections to be automatically returned to taxpayers, not kept or spent."
"Government should not engage in preemptive regulation based on hypothetical or speculative harms. A moratorium on data centers and other heavy-handed proposals restricting entire categories of technology are simply incompatible with a free society."
"Senator Galt's BI-11 would be a step forward for addressing local government property taxes, but more reforms are needed in the long run to dramatically reduce Montanans’ property tax burden"... "ultimately Montana needs fiscally conservative limits on the growth of state, school, and local budgets to address the root cause of taxation."
"...Our leaders in Helena need to be evaluating whether our savings rate is evidence-based and whether we are collecting more than we really need from taxpayers."
"The only way Montana should ever enact a statewide sales tax is to be used solely to replace existing taxes. No sales tax unless our property or income taxes are eliminated. No using sales tax revenues to grow government. No Swap, No Tax. Period."
"On the other hand, America is rooted in individualism – the idea that respect for individuals and their rights should take precedence over the collective."
"Montanans should look past fear-driven narratives and recognize data centers as an opportunity to support local economies while helping pay for infrastructure we already need."
"Trump’s 'pay the people' healthcare proposal would flip the script, cut out the bloated middlemen, and let Americans control their own money and plans. Freedom of choice, lower cost, better care."
"It looks like the big money supporting the left in Montana has now largely moved on from partisan campaign efforts and is shifting resources towards ballot campaigns as a means of advancing the progressive agenda."
"Homeschoolers and school choice advocates share a common cause: keeping education decisions where they belong, with families, not bureaucrats."
"Dependency on the federal government is nothing to celebrate, it can come at a deep cost to taxpayers and our state’s sovereignty."
It’s misleading to claim that controlling additional taxpayer money in new investment accounts obligated for future spending isn’t growing government.