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The Arkansas Project was launched in 2008 as a source for incisive commentary and reporting on Arkansas government, politics, media and more. In 2011, The Arkansas Project became an affiliate of the Advance Arkansas Institute. The Arkansas Project supplied daily commentary until 2019, but is now largely inactive.
David Kinkade was the chief writer and the editor of The Arkansas Project until 2011. After the site became affiliated with the Advance Arkansas Institute, Dan Greenberg was editor of The Arkansas Project until it became inactive in 2019. During that eight-year period, the writers for the site included Nic Horton, Marc Kilmer, and Caleb Taylor.
Arkansas Second-Highest In Sales Tax Rate…Again!
The 2015 edition of the American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC’s) “Rich States, Poor States” study came out today. Arkansas’s...
Caleb Taylor
Apr 8, 20152 min read
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Making Arkansas a Rich State
What can Arkansas lawmakers do to grow the state’s economy in the years to come? That’s the question a new study, Rich States, Poor...
Marc Kilmer
Aug 14, 20142 min read
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Sales Tax Holiday Leads to High Tax Hangover
All tax reductions aren’t created equal — and nowhere is this more evident than in this weekend’s annual sales tax holiday. Because of...
Caleb Taylor
Aug 1, 20142 min read
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Which Candidate For U.S. Senate Wants To Kill The Death Tax The Most?
Of all the taxes that government imposes, perhaps none is more offensive than the federal Estate Tax, commonly referred to as the “Death...
Nic Horton
Jun 25, 20145 min read
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Cotton: Exchanges Will Be ‘Open Season on Taxpayers’
Rep. Tom Cotton, who is challenging Senator Mark Pryor, took some time out of his busy schedule to visit with reporters on a conference...
Nic Horton
Aug 9, 20134 min read
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Stephen Speaks!
Those thinkers over at the Advance Arkansas Institute made good on their promise yesterday to bring Steve Moore to Little Rock for a...
Nic Horton
Feb 8, 20131 min read
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Smells Like….Freedom: Arkansas Tax Freedom Day April 11!
Click map for more. And here it comes, baby: Tax Freedom Day. Can you feel it? Can you feel all that freedom coming your way? The fiscal...
David Kinkade
Apr 3, 20121 min read
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Tomorrow’s Bad Ideas Today: Taxing Digital Downloads!
For illustration purposes only. Stop clicking the button. Nothing's going to happen. Now is the time to weep for the good people of...
David Kinkade
Mar 19, 20122 min read
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Governor, Agencies Say Trivial Budget Cuts Would Be Devastating, Which Was Entirely Predictable!
Artist's rendering of Arkansas budget debate. Capital sparring, gents! (Clipart by BestVector) You guys, this Arkansas budget debate!...
David Kinkade
Feb 21, 20122 min read
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Arkansas Government and the $19 Billion Question
Kathy Webb and John Burris According to the Arkansas News Bureau, House Budget Committee Chairman Kathy Webb, a Democrat, is...
Daniel Greenberg
Feb 17, 20122 min read
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Report: Arkansas 6th In Nation for State, Local Sales Tax Rates
Click for more Our friends at the Tax Foundation are out with updated rankings on combined state and local sales tax rates, and here you...
David Kinkade
Feb 16, 20121 min read
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Arkansas Dems on Income: Intentionally Misleading or Just Ignorant of the Facts? (PART 2: The Exciti
(Part One of this discussion, which you can read here, took place yesterday. Part Two will be shorter, I promise) So yesterday we had a...
David Kinkade
Feb 3, 20123 min read
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Arkansas Dems on Income: Intentionally Misleading or Just Ignorant of the Facts? (PART 1)
Why are Arkansas Democrats exaggerating the Natural State’s progress on income growth? Or more to the point, just how damn stupid do they...
David Kinkade
Feb 2, 20125 min read
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Biz Tax Study Ranks Arkansas An Unimpressive 31st! (UPDATED!)
We have established before how much I like the Tax Foundation’s studies and maps as a tool for exploring tax policy. In fact, when it...
David Kinkade
Jan 25, 20123 min read
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That Pesky Medical Device Tax: A Medical Manufacturing Insider Speaks Out!
Will medical device tax drive production overseas and stifle innovation? We wrote here previously about the medical device tax tucked...
David Kinkade
Jan 24, 20124 min read
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Checking In On Arkansas Taxes: Yep, Still High!
Click to see original version Because it’s been some time since we checked in on the heavy tax burden on Arkansans…hey, look at this! The...
David Kinkade
Jan 12, 20121 min read
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Tanning Industry Burned by Obamacare Tax! (Updated!)
Though the Arkansas health insurance benefits exchange has been declared DOA, we must remain on guard for all the still-awful Obamacare...
David Kinkade
Dec 6, 20114 min read
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Should Arkansas Lower Income Tax Rates? Let’s Go With ‘Yes’
Our friend Roby Brock over at Talk Business bursts out of the post-holiday gate today with a good report on a leading state lawmaker’s...
David Kinkade
Nov 28, 20112 min read
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Study: Now Let’s Reform Disastrous Unemployment Insurance Program To Make It Somewhat Less Dis
Ugh, the Arkansas unemployment insurance (UI) system, what a mess, am I right, people? What, oh, what could ever be done to fix such a...
David Kinkade
Oct 17, 20113 min read
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Sales Tax Study: We’re Number Seven! We’re Number Seven!
Click for closer look at Tax Foundation map A new study from the nonpartisan Tax Foundation ranks states for combined state and local...
David Kinkade
Sep 23, 20111 min read
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Amazon, California Cut Deal on Online Sales Tax
It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve annoyed readers with a post on the Amazon sales tax targeting web retailers, so, hey, here’s a new...
David Kinkade
Sep 8, 20112 min read
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Credit Report: Q&A With Rick Calhoun on Debt Downgrade
On August 5, the credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) lowered the U.S. government’s debt rating, citing concern about the...
Nic Horton
Aug 8, 20114 min read
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Attack of the Grinch: Greenberg on Sales Tax Holiday
This weekend, Arkansas shoppers get some tax relief: thanks to Act 757, passed earlier this year (link opens as PDF file) certain...
Daniel Greenberg
Aug 5, 20111 min read
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