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Iowa should privatize its prison system in order to alleviate budget problems, a conservative watchdog group said Monday.
Ed Failor Jr., president of Iowans for Tax Relief, said the privatization of Iowa’s prisons would result in many positive benefits, from making communities safer to minimizing inefficiencies. But the biggest benefit would be cost savings, he said.

Officials in Muscatine County have taken a 51-year-old Mechanicsville woman into custody on charges that she attempted to extort funds from a conservative anti-tax group. The woman, Mary Kathryn Moravek, has served as a state lobbyist and well as a commissioner on a state board for people with disabilities.

Ed Failor, Jr., who heads the conservative group Iowans for Tax Relief, made headlines during this year’s legislative session when he compared Democratic legislative leaders to ‘jack-booted Nazis’ after an unruly crowd of conservatives was ejected from the Iowa House during a public hearing on proposed changes to the state income tax code.
Now he has [...]

The boisterous crowd, a large majority of which opposed the proposed changes to Iowa’s tax code, gave each of the speakers who voiced support for the proposal the same treatment – boos and hisses. Those who opposed it, such as Iowans for Tax Relief President Ed Failor Jr., received energetic applause.

Iowans for Tax Relief, a Muscatine-based taxpayer watchdog group, has promised an all-out public relations assault on legislators in order to stop them from ending federal deductibility, an exemption that allows residents to write off their federal taxes on state returns.

Iowans for Tax Relief sent out a press release today analyzing the prospects for job creation under Gov. Chet Culver’s proposed bonding initiative.
Ed Failor, Jr., President of Iowans for Tax Relief said, “We need to ask the right questions of Governor Culver. If, by his math, $750 million will create 21,000 new jobs, for a [...]