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Mark Your Calendar for our 2012 Legislative Forum!
Mark the date - November 17, 2012 for our Legislative Forum to be held at the Great Northern Hotel in Helena. The event is open to the public. More information to come.
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About MPI
The Montana Policy Institute is a free market think tank focused on "flipping the switch" from government dependence to free people and free enterprise. We provide credible nonpartisan expertise and analysis to help Montanans advocate for policies that are based on a respect for individual freedom, an expectation of personal responsibility, and the idea that government intervention should be an avenue of last, rather than first, resort when addressing public policy challenges. To find out more visit our website at: www.montanapolicy.org :: |
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Fall Greetings!
The season has been busy at MPI! Scroll on down to find out what we have been working on to promote liberty, free enterprise and limited government under the Big Sky. Don't forget, we need your support and your ideas to help make Montana a place where our kids will want to live, and can make a living!
Click the DONATE NOW button to help us help our fellow Montanans and keep the flame alive!
Some food for thought:
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."
-Gerald A. Ford, in an address to a joint session of Congress on August 12, 1974
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| New MPI Program Announcement!
Watch this space for our newest program at MPI, "Tapping Capitalism."
Montana can go from among the poorest to the richest states by tapping our potential, our resources, and our people. But we have to unshackle the power of markets and ideas.
Tapping Capitalism will show the way!
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| Update on Transparency Lawsuit
It's simple. Taxpayers have a right to know what they pay their employees. The state won't tell us, so we're taking the only recourse the law allows and suing them.
You can read about it here.
We'll have more to tell you after our October 26th day in court.
You can see what we've found out so far about state employee pay, benefits, unionization, and more at our OpenGovMT.org website.
Coincidentally, Phil Drake of our Montana Watchdog bureau has been asking about retirement pay and benefits. He recently reported on the Montana Public Employee Retirement Administration's decision to challenge the Attorney General's opinion that they should make retirement pay public as well. See full article here.
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| We're Gathering the Goods For Our 2012 Pork Report!
Our 2010 Pork Report was a huge hit and we're getting started on the 2012 edition.
The report is a one-stop shopping guide to state government and should be mandatory reading for all taxpayers.
We're analyzing data and going through the budget line by line to weed out and expose excessive spending in the Big Sky state, along with ideas on how to restore fiscal sanity.
If you have any tips or ideas about what should be in the next Pork Report - or if you want to help us put one on every dining room table in Montana - email us here. |
Be sure to check our Health Care Resources page for tons of articles, studies, and policy papers, and the latest arguments for repealing ObamaCare.
And head to our Global Warming Resources page to get past the hype and see what real science is saying about climate change and the impacts of bad policy.
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| Do you like charts? We have charts!
We've put together a page where you can find a collection of charts, graphs, and other links showing big government's takeover and the impact it's having in every area of our lives.
We also have links to lots of other sites with even more impressive and useful information!
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MPI on the Radio
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Tune into AM 1450 KMMS Radio every Monday morning from 8:30-9:00 AM to hear MPI's CEO Carl Graham tackle the important issues in Montana.
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Montana Watchdog
Montana Watchdog is an independent news outlet that shares  its stories with the public and other media organizations. Be the first to get the scoop on what's really going on in Montana. You can sign up for email updates as well as an RSS feed. |
| Policy Meets World
MPI's very own, Nick Schwaderer, reports on the prominent issues using the latest cutting edge media.
Some of Nick's picks might be a little 'out there' for us seasoned folks, but he's reaching the young people we need to help inform and activate for freedom.
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