Post-Election Game Plan & Pro-Growth Reforms Across the States: Jonathan Williams on NewsTalkSTL
It's been a cheerful week for hardworking taxpayers across the country—not just in Washington but also across the 50 laboratories of democracy.
ALEC Chief Economist and Executive Vice President of Policy Jonathan Williams joined NewsTalkSTL with hosts Tim Jones and Chris Arps to discuss the post-election game plan and pro-growth opportunities across the states, including the extension of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, education freedom, and state tax reform.
It’s been a cheerful week for hardworking taxpayers across the country—not just in Washington. A lot of good attention needs to be paid there because of all the positive developments, but also across the 50 laboratories of democracy, where the ALEC men and women in state legislative bodies are going to be more on offense than ever.
Williams also described ALEC’s goal of enacting universal education freedom in half of the states, allowing education dollars to follow the student and empowering parents to provide the best opportunities possible within the education system.
ALEC has been spearheading, along with our partners across the country, our Education Freedom Alliance, where our goal is to see at least half the states adopt universal school choice policies, allowing dollars to follow the children and parents and enabling those parents to make those decisions. In just the past several years, especially coming out of the pandemic, we have seen success in incredible ways.
Williams concluded by encouraging Missouri policymakers to embrace bold reforms, pointing to Colorado’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights as a model for capping government growth and returning excess revenue to taxpayers.
You see the growth elements of income tax elimination, the flat tax revolution that we’ve seen sweeping the country. All your neighboring states have taken advantage of it. Now, of course, it’s time for Missouri to keep up with its neighbors, and the way to do that is by balancing common-sense spending ideas with good, pro-growth tax policies.