Eliminate Personal Property Taxes

Arkansas has a very high tax burden, highest in the south. This is bad for Arkansas, and needs to change quickly.  While almost all of our taxes need to be lowered, some can be completely eliminated.  The most glaring example is our tax on personal non-real estate property (vehicles).  This is the tax that requires us every year to go to the assessor's office and declare what we have so it can be appraised. You then have to go to a different office to actually pay the tax and yet another to register the vehicle. Even if you pay your taxes on time, if you appraise late you pay a tax penalty. Often, an entire day can be wasted just to register a car. Eliminating this tax eliminates an entire bureaucracy and the costs and inefficiencies associated with it.  All across the state there would no longer be a need to rent or build buildings to house assessors offices. Paperwork would be reduced. Workers from these offices could be transferred to DFAS offices, greatly reducing wait times to get a driver's license or register a vehicle. People would no longer have to take a day off work just to renew their license or tags. Eliminating this tax is a no brainer. I suspect most of the revenue it generates does nothing more than fund the bureaucracy that imposes it.

Arkansas Economy

Arkansas is a blessed place, and should be one of the most prosperous states in the union.  We have navigable waters in the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers. We have rail and major interstate highway routes, and are the headquarters for major trucking lines.  We have plentiful waters for agriculture, recreation, industry, transportation, and drinking. We have natural resources in timber, recreational land, agricultural land, and minerals.  We have the headquarters for the world's largest retailer. We should be the envy of 49 other states.
Unfortunately, we also have a very high tax burden.  The highest of any southern state. It makes it difficult to attract the businesses and industries we need to truly prosper. Instead of changing tax policy to attract businesses, the legislature attempts to play favorites for individual businesses based largely on their level of political support. A glaring example of this is the Big River steel deal, where the Koch brothers supported many politicians that turned around and paid them back by giving tax breaks to their steel company at the expense of Nucor steel. The legislators pat themselves on the back about bringing in new industry while failing to note that any new jobs created will merely be replacing the jobs lost at Nucor that was already here.  We should not be picking individual companies to show favoritism. We should be giving tax breaks to everyone, so we can attract companies like Big River without eliminating established companies like Nucor.
We need to establish a business friendly environment so we can bring manufacturing back to the US instead of sending those jobs overseas.  Most of the resources and infrastructure required is already here. All we need to do is fix the policy problems and we could become a very prosperous state.

Right to Life

All individuals are entitled to equal protection under the law. The question then is what constitutes individual life.  Roe v Wade was a very poorly written decision that danced around the issue without actually defining anything. At some point the supreme court will have to define life and settle the issue. At the point of conception the fetus has DNA that is unique to that individual. At this point it is a living individual entitled to protection under the law. There is already a large amount of precedence in various cases where DNA is used to positively uniquely identify an individual. 
Abortion, therefore, is the taking of an individual life.  In the case where the mother's life is threatened by the pregnancy, she should keep the right to defend her life even at the expense of the unborn child. There is no other reason where terminating the life of that individual should be legal.