Western Petroleum Marketers Association - WPMA

As you are reading this publication the MPMCSA is beginning preparations for the 2013 Legislative Session that kicks off January 7th. A large part of those preparations is centered on a series of pre-legislative meetings that we host with our elected officials in seven different areas of the State. Those begin December 4th, so it's quite likely as you read this that we have begun! As we can't report on election results due to the magazine's deadline let's hope we're happy with the outcome. But even if we're not, we will be as prepared as possible for the four month-long ordeal ahead. Read More...

As the "Message" won't be published again until December, some of my own thoughts about the upcoming election may be in order. Montana has many important races in progress, one being the hotly contested Senate race with Junior Senator Jon Tester facing off against the sitting Congressman, Denny Rehberg. The Montana Senate race is one of three the GOP considers ripe for the picking to break the Democrat cloture vote; Nebraska and North Dakota being the other two. Read More...

... found this excerpt from a 1931 bulletin published by the Montana Taxpayers Association:

"The partial confiscation of property by taxation is not a twentieth century situa- tion, but rather a condition existing since the beginning of time. Biblical history teaches us taxation ruined the children of Israel and so on down through the pages of history mighty dynasties have fallen because of excessive taxes and over-much government. There is not a single exception to this historical fact. Read More...