PRESS RELEASE
Attorney Joey McCutchen and Robbie Wilson will hold a press conference at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, January 30, 2019 to state their reasons for opposition to the proposed Marshal Museum tax.
The conference will be held at McCutchen & Sexton-The Law Firm, at 1622 North B Street, Fort Smith.
McCutchen is the founder of the Transparency In Government Group of Western Arkansas. McCutchen opposes the one-cent sales tax. McCutchen states that the Marshall’s Museum concept was “sold to the voters of Fort Smith as a privately funded enterprise, and that seeking a tax to fund this museum is a betrayal of the trust of the citizens of Fort Smith.”
McCutchen also states that it is his intent to “educate voters and shed sunlight on this project which could quickly become a white elephant just like the River Valley Sport Complex and Fort Smith Convention Center.”
Wilson is one of the lead organizers of Citizens Against Unfair Taxation, and states “Arkansas ranks as the most regressive tax system in America, according to a recent study conducted by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
The people of Fort Smith are struggling with high utility bills, a low median income and we have already been subsidizing this project for years, yet these developers are asking for more. We have more important priorities in Fort Smith right now than to be chasing the dreams of a relative handful of extremely wealthy developers.”
Wilson and his group also oppose the tax.
