The state income tax has been driving business, jobs and population away from Missouri. Today's Senate debate is a key event toward the passage of this significant idea that many AFP members and other concerned citizens have worked hard to educate elected officials, friends, neighbors and community leaders about the economic growth Missouri can achieve without an income tax.

It's time we move from talking about "free markets" and "free enterprise", to actually learning what those terms mean, and how we can teach them to our friends, family, and neighbors.

Only when the American people understand how integral economic freedom is to both political and religious freedom will the inherently flawed ideas of liberals and progressives everywhere be placed on the "trash heap of History" where they rightly belong.

LANSING—The Michigan chapter of the grassroots free market group Americans for Prosperity (AFP-MI) today applauded U.S. Congressman Fred Upton (6th District) for signing the group’s “No Climate Tax Pledge.” Upton joins more than 325 legislators and candidates on the federal, state and local levels pledging to “oppose legislation relating to climate change that includes a net increase in federal revenue.”

“Detroit union wants mayor jailed”

This is the headline from the Detroit News yesterday. Another example of union bosses standing in the way of real reform. Read the story here at http://tinyurl.com/yf73ew4. Union bosses will stop at nothing to pillage the good people of this state. Union bosses pretend that unions are immune from economic downturns and will threaten & intimidate politicians into giving into their will.