Freeing our members from high taxes, regulations and other constraints that prevent them from winning in the global marketplace.

FreedomKentucky^SM leverages the power and experience of Kentucky’s $1 million lobbying team and other advocacy initiatives to help level the playing field for Kentucky manufacturers in the global economy. Manufacturers in low-wage countries operate at a fraction of the cost burden on Kentucky firms. If Kentucky manufacturers could be free from high taxes, red tape and many cumbersome regulations, the cost gap would narrow dramatically.

FreedomKentucky^SM frees Kentucky manufacturers from high taxes, regulations, and other constraints that prevent them from winning in the global marketplace.

• Strenuously oppose excessive government intervention in the activities of the private sector.
• Business Taxation – Eliminate the “AMC tax” on gross receipts or gross profits.
  
• Tort (Lawsuit) Reform – Support legislative action to limit non-economic and punitive damages in medical malpractice suits and comprehensive tort reform.
  
• Unemployment Compensation – Oppose expansion of benefits for those who voluntarily terminate employment, are discharged for misconduct or dishonesty, refuse to accept suitable work, and who become unemployable by reason of criminal conviction.
  
• Right-to-Work – Support an organized effort to allow all Kentucky workers the freedom to eliminate mandatory membership in or financial support of labor organizations as a condition of employment. This will eliminate Kentucky’s competitive disadvantage as the only non Right-to-Work state in the South, which discourages other manufacturers from locating here and encourages those already here to leave the state.
• Public Employee Unionization – Oppose the expansion of public employee unionization.
  
• Prevailing Wage – Oppose the mandated use of union scale wages in determining worker pay for public projects, resulting in unnecessary higher costs.

Sponsors/Partners

Kentucky Prosperity Project

The Kentucky Prosperity Project gives you the information and tools you need to make it to the polls and cast an informed vote. We've included voter registration and absentee ballot information and forms for every state in the union, and the District of Columbia. We've included tools to locate and contact your elected officials. You can write your legislators on important pending legislation. And, as candidates file for office and votes that matter are cast we'll present candidate guides and voting records. For more information, visit www.kentuckyprosperity.org.

Louisville Forge and Gear Works

High Quality Precision Forgings for High Performance Use. Since1985, Louisville Forge and Gear Works has been a leading manufacturer of highly engineered impression die steel forgings serving Automotive, Aerospace, Farm Machinery and Off-Highway end-use markets. For more information, visit www.louisvilleforge.com.

NewPage

NewPage Corporation, headquartered in Dayton, Ohio, is a leading U.S. producer of coated papers in North America. With more than 4,300 employees, the company operates integrated pulp and paper manufacturing mills located in Escanaba, Michigan; Luke, Maryland; Rumford, Maine; and Wickliffe, Kentucky. These mills have a combined annual capacity of approximately 2.2 million tons of coated paper. For more information, visit www.newpagecorp.com.