Campaign launched to oppose Arkansas highway tax measure
LITTLE ROCK — An unlikely coalition of anti-tax advocates, environmentalists and community groups said Friday it is campaigning against an Arkansas highway sales tax measure backed by the state’s Republican governor and top lobbying groups.
The “No Permanent Tax. No on Issue 1” committee that was formed to oppose the highway measure launched its campaign and detailed the groups in its coalition. The proposed constitutional amendment on the November ballot calls for permanently extending a half-cent sales tax voters approved in 2012 for highway needs.
“We all have different perspectives, and once you get outside Issue 1, they get very different,” Ryan Norris, the committee chairman and the state director of the Arkansas chapter of Americans for Prosperity, told reporters. “But we are approaching this situation as being friends.”
Other groups involved in the campaign include Central Arkansas Sierra Club, Audubon Arkansas, the Arkansas Public Policy Panel and Tea Party groups from northeast Arkansas and Garland County.
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(Fort Smith Times Record)