Economic freedom results in lower infant mortality, greater longevity and increased per capita income for countries which have more economic freedom. Those with little economic freedom have more children dying, shorter life expectancy and are poorer. Economic freedom is a tremendous indicator of happiness and well-being. We at AFP-Texas have taken this message on the road.

A blog post worth reading appeared on John O Sullivan’s site titled Poverty Reduction vs Climate Change:

“You might have noticed that the phrase poverty reduction is in the process of overtaking climate change as the issue of major international concern. The phrase sustainable development is also losing ground. It never was implementable and now the UN organizers of Rio+20 are struggling to get an international agreement on its objectives.

Americans for Prosperity-Texas regularly highlights blog posts as providing information which can’t be found elsewhere. We have some tremendous citizen journalists in Texas. This blogger – Will Franklin -- has provided an interesting perspective that no other media has presented.

State political parties have the opportunity to put non-binding initiatives on the primary ballot. This election cycle, both the Republican and the Democratic parties have placed initiatives on the ballot. Several are AFP issues. In an effort to better educate voters, we are providing our positions below: