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More Than Half of Prince’s Estate May Go Towards Paying Death Tax Bill
The coming battle over Prince’s estate serves as a lesson to taxpayers: do not die in Minnesota.
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Is RI-Innovates Corporate Cronyism in the Best Interests of Ocean State Families?
Part of the RI Innovates plan is designed to give away taxpayer-funded subsidies to many of the same industries targeted…
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Drop in ALEC Ranking Due to Spending, Not Tax Cuts
In the recently released ninth-annual “Rich States, Poor States” report, many states saw their rankings move considerably.
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Spotlight on Counterfeits
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) issued a new report, Trade in Counterfeit and Pirated Goods, offering…
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Intellectual Property Rights Shape the Future
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) are vital to the global economy. IPR make it possible for creators to have exclusive rights…
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New Technologies Can Help States Fight Opioid Abuse
The Ohio Legislature is also currently considering such a measure. If passing these bills is successful, physicians will gain greater authority to prescribe what they see as the best treatment for the individual, specifically those who are at higher-risk for drug abuse than other patients.
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Intellectual Property Rights are Natural Rights
World Intellectual Property (IP) Day celebrates the role that strong Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) play in incentivizing innovation, attracting foreign…
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Signing of Paris Climate Agreement Begins Today
Today (“International Mother Earth Day,” according to the United Nations), is the first day that participating nations can sign…
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Freestanding Emergency Centers
Freestanding emergency centers (FECs) could transform emergency healthcare services in the United States. Due to overcrowded waiting rooms, long wait…
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VIDEO: Rich States, Poor States
Jonathan Williams, co-author of the report and vice president of the ALEC Center for State Fiscal Reform, discussed the new rankings with Mary Kissel on The Wall Street Journal Live.
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Sentencing Juveniles as Adults is Not Always The Best Policy
The issue of presumptively treating 17-year-olds as adults in the criminal justice system has been discussed and debated in a…
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Cuba: A New Revolution
President Obama’s visit to the communist island this March represents a turning point for both nations. To move forward, each…
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Rich States, Poor States: Maine Gets Richer, but Still Among the Poorest
In the recently-released ninth edition of the Rich States, Poor States: ALEC-Laffer State Economic Competitiveness Index, Maine earned its highest all-time rank of 38.
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Fighting Opioid Abuse Takes All of Us
Today, more people are dying of drug overdoses than car accidents. And you, our local officials, are seeing the…
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House Judiciary Committee Unanimously Forwards the Email Privacy Act to the Full House
The Judiciary Committee of the United States House unanimously passed a substituted version of the Email Privacy Act. “Americans……
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Alumni Spotlight – Steve Bisenius
Steve Bisenius first became involved in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) shortly after he was elected to the Iowa…
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Don’t Follow the Left’s Upside Down Approach To Inversions
This month, a coalition of free market supporters sent Treasury Secretary Jack Lew a letter urging him to meaningfully address tax inversions, in which companies merge with foreign counterparts and headquarter abroad, by working with Congress to pass corporate tax reform. The Treasury’s actions so far – three rounds of new tax inversion regulations over the past 19 months – won’t solve the problem.
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Rich States, Poor States: 9th Edition Released
On Tuesday, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) Center for State Fiscal Reform released the ninth edition of the Rich…
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FBI vs. Apple: Effort to expand federal power won’t go away
No one wants to enable criminals and terrorists. But this debate was not about Apple’s cooperation with the FBI. It was, and still is, about radically expanding the power of the federal government and about keeping your personal information — financial, health, even photos and emails — secure from hackers, criminals and cyber terrorists.
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Energy, Climate and Vulnerable Populations
Last week, the Obama administration released a new report detailing the negative consequences climate change may have on human…