It's Time to End Corporate Welfare in Montana

As your constituent, I am asking you to support SB 523 to ensure more of my tax dollars are spent on the essential services offered by the government and not on corporate welfare.

I don't mind paying for police, fire, and infrastructure services. But it's blatantly unfair for my hard-earned tax dollars to go to private corporations simply because they could afford to lobby the local government.

Each year, local governments across Montana siphon tens of millions of dollars from taxpayers and give them to private businesses, some of whom are worth tens of millions of dollars themselves. Other businesses - ones that don't have connections to local politicians - can do nothing but watch as their OWN taxes are funneled straight to their competitors.

At the same time, we're repeatedly told these same local governments don't have enough money to fund essential services and need to find more revenue.

I support small and large businesses in our state and recognize that the private sector is better suited to solve most societal problems. But businesses need to earn their money by providing value to their customers, not by gaining favor from politicians. 

The government picking winners and losers is unfair to competing businesses and the taxpayers that foot the bill.

So please, support SB 523 and SLOW DOWN corporate welfare in Montana.