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AFFM in the Arizona Capitol Times: “A fragmented regulatory system harms… Read More
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In @AzCapitolTimes: Arizona’s HB 2629 attempts to bypass federal regulations on interchange fees, preventing banks and their networks from charging such fees on the sales tax portion of a transaction.
More on how HB 2629 will require burdensome and costly compliance updates:
Debanking is largely driven by federal regulators dictating who financial institutions work with. It’s time to let banks make their own decisions without political pressure.
Read @AAF Thomas Kingsley’s full analysis on banking policy failures:
Wall Street, meet Y’all Street! 🤠
Thanks to @GregAbbott_TX’s commitment to free market policies, Texas is reshaping America’s financial landscape with the $TXSE.
See why Gov. Abbott tells @SquawkCNBC that capital markets and businesses are flocking to Texas as the new financial…
FACT: Republican primary voters support pro-free market policies that allow banks to make independent business decisions based on the facts and the law, without government interference.
See the findings from a recent @TheTysonGroup survey:
The Results Are In: Recent survey findings show that nearly three-quarters of Republican primary voters believe regulators play a key role in debanking decisions, underscoring the need for fixes that hold overreaching regulators accountable.
More from @TheTysonGroup via @NRO:
ICYMI: Arizona’s HB 2629 will bring considerable consequences on Arizona’s small businesses, encumber taxpayers with unnecessary litigation, overregulate the economy and undermine our free market system.
Read the full op-ed in @AzCapitolTimes:
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