Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana
Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana
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Recently, the Whitehall Ledger published an article by Rep. Llew Jones arguing that Montana's economy has “shifted” from natural resource industries to tourism, service work, and high-end real estate — and that our tax system and future economic vision should shift along with it. In other words, we should accept this new direction and reshape our economic policies and tax structure to serve wealthy newcomers rather than the working industries that built Montana. I couldn’t disagree more. Montana earned the name “The Treasure State” long before...
In a recent article in the June 9th edition of The Montana Standard, Justin Allport, interim executive director of the Montana Democratic Party, claimed that ”under Republican leadership, prices continue to climb for just about everything.” That claim is blatantly false. The real problem is the relentless growth of government, out-of-control spending, programs with little oversight, and layers of regulation built on decades of government policy supported by both Democratic lawmakers and so-called Republicans who have chosen to side with tho...
