HB1026 amends state law to prohibit local governments from enacting an income tax.
The Senate passed HB1026 on February 9, 2023, by a vote of 27 to 6. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because the income tax is an immoral, anti-constitutional act of government-imposed theft that takes from people the wages they have rightfully earned. This manifestly socialist wealth redistribution scheme is the primary source of funding “nanny-state” policies that only result in more debt, dependency, and poverty. Arkansans must reject tyrannical, big government by enforcing the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment, which require that “No State” shall “deprive any person” of “liberty, or property,” guaranteeing “equal protection of the laws.”
