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Recently, our Arkansas Senate has been rushing to pass legislation, apparently, the state doesn’t need. I might point out that I am a Republican, but I am ashamed of several of the bills passing through our state legislature. In particular, I wrote Senator Dismang about his bill to change net metering.

Entergy tried to do that last year, claiming that they were losing money on solar customers with no evidence whatsoever; but, of course, no one cares if Entergy loses money. So this year they came back with “the people that can afford solar power are taking money out of the pockets of the folks that can’t.” Again, with no evidence whatsoever. Never mind that those people are investing millions of dollars in equipment that produces solar power for the grid, which saves Entergy the money, and benefits the little guy.

So for no reason and ignoring arguments to the contrary, they rush in like chicken little. Then, to show their inconsistency they pass the Arkansas LEARNS Act, where we take money from the school districts and all those people who can’t afford to go to private school (the little guy) and we give it to the wealthy, who are already sending their children to private school. Where is the consistency in all of that? And how are our school districts going to afford mandated raises when you take money away from them?

Congratulations to Senator Dismang and the Senate for the bang up job they are doing — inconsistently representing Arkansas’ interest, especially the little guy, only when politically convenient. [ Editor’s Note: I know it seems like there has been a lot of Republican bashing in this column and in my Viewpoint columns lately, and I suppose there has, but honestly, you won’t see much Democrat bashing here, at least at the state level, because the party is virtually powerless in this state right now, so all of this legislation ( and there is so much of it) coming out of Little Rock is all from the GOP, which is a little weird considering the whole basis of the “ conservative” political circles is supposed to be individual liberty and limited government,

*** The Biden Administration is wielding the ATF as a weapon to assault your God-given rights by putting as many firearm dealers out of business as possible over minor clerical errors. Last year, Federal Firearm License (FFL) revocations hit a 16-year high after the Biden Administration changed the definition of what constitutes a “willful” violation and implemented a “zero-tolerance” policy for gun dealers.