Tennessee Awards Nearly $18M In Site Development Grants
Tennessee Has Committed To Hand Out $17.9 Million In Grants For The Development Of 12 Sites In Order To Prepare Those Sites For Potential Businesses.
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Pork Report
Pork Report: In-N-Out Subsidies, TPAC Move Are Wasteful Government Spending
Nearly $5 Million In Taxpayer Subsidies For In-N-Out Burger, $200 Million To Move The Tennessee Performing Arts Center And Large Property Tax Increases Were All Included In Beacon Center’s Annual Pork Report On Wasteful Taxpayer Spending In The State.
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DCS Child Abuse, Campaign Lies, Taxpayer Abuse, Stagnant Scores, Two More Years Of Winter & More! – The TennCon Big 7!
• Tennessee DCS Given One More Year To Get Their Act Together After Audit Finds Children In State Custody Sexually Abused Or Harassed
• Tennessee Right To Life Revokes Endorsement Of Senator Richard Briggs
• Vanderbilt Survey Says TN Republican Voters Prefer DeSantis Over Trump And Support Weakening Of Abortion Law
• Tennessee GOP Chairman Reelected Despite Call For More Conservative Leadership
• Pork Report Says $1 Million Plus A Year Of Tax Dollars Spent To Fund Lobbying Efforts
• TDOE Report Shows State ACT Scores Remain Stagnant
• Tennessee Tech Professors First Amendment Case Against University Dismissed
Irresponsible Spending By Tennessee RINOs And Democrats [Interview With Beacon Center – TN]
Today, We Are Joined By Mark Cunningham, Vice President Of Communications And Outreach For Beacon Center Of Tennessee – An Organization That Works To Empower Tennesseans To Reclaim And Protect Their Freedoms, So That They Can Freely Pursue Their Version Of The American Dream. Mark Is Here To Discuss The Beacon’s Center’s Most Recent Release Of The “Pork Report,” A Document That Outlines Massive Amounts Of Wasteful Spending, Much Of Which Has Been Enacted Under The “Conservative” Leadership Of The Republican Party.
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Pork Report Says $1 Million Plus A Year Of Tax Dollars Spent To Fund Lobbying Efforts
In Their 2022 “Pork Report,” The Beacon Center Of Tennessee Says That $1 Million Plus Of Tennessee Tax Dollars Goes To Funding Lobbying Efforts At The State Legislature Every Year.
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Beacon Center’s 2021 Pork Report Highlights Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars Of Waste, Fraud & Abuse In TN
The Beacon Center Of Tennessee Has Released This Year’s “Pork Report” In An Appropriately-Themed “Recipe Book” Entitled 12 Recipes For Government Waste, Fraud And Abuse. The Tongue-In-Cheek Recipes Lay Out The Problems And Offer Up Workable Conservative Solutions.
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Public Policy Experts Call Out Hamilton County For $16 Million McDonald Farm Deal
In The 2021 Pork Report By The Beacon Center Of Tennessee, The Organization Calls Out Hamilton County Government For Spending $16 Million In Taxpayer Dollars For 2,170 Acres Of The McDonald Farm With The Hope Of Converting It Into A Center Of Economic Development.
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Nashvillians Continue To Push For Taxpayer Protection Act Amidst Lawsuit
Metro Nashville Has Issued A Lawsuit Against Davidson Election Commission In Response To Putting The Anti-tax Referendum Before Voters On July 27. The Court Has Called The Initiative To Roll Back A Raise In Property Taxes Unconstitutional. Another Lawsuit Was Filed Against The Commission By The Nashville Business Coalition.
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Grassroots Organization Calls For Elimination of Stadium Funding in Lee’s Budget Amendment
Following Reports That Governor Bill Lee’s Budget Amendment Includes A $13.5 Million Dollar Grant For A Minor League Stadium Americans For Prosperity-Tennessee (AFP-TN) Urged Legislators To Eliminate Politically-Driven Handouts.
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New Petition Effort Seeks To Limit Nashville Metro Government’s Spending
After A Referendum Effort To Appeal Nashville’s 34% Property Tax Increase And Limit City Officials’ Spending Died In Court Last Fall, The Attorney Behind The Effort Has Launched A New Petition Aimed At Nashville Metro Government.
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