Category: In The News
Category: In The News (page 21)
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Tax Code Shaken, Economic Outlook Not Stirred
A common argument put forth by proponents of tax-and-spend schemes is that pro-growth tax reforms are a guaranteed way for a state to destroy its bond rating.
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Changing Lives Across Multiple Measures: School Choice Delivers By Metrics of Parents and Regulators
A new meta-analysis of studies done on the academic achievement of students in school choice programs shows that empowering parents to choose, delivers across multiple assessment metrics.
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Four Things Other New England States Are Doing Worse Than Maine
New England, on the whole, is an economically-depressed region.
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A Taxpayer Exits New Jersey – And the State Panics
A single taxpayer’s exodus from high-tax New Jersey sent the Garden State’s budget office into a tailspin.
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Subsidies and Cost Shifting Won’t Power Maine’s Economy
An economic resurgence is clearly needed, and state legislators have two options.
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Hall Tax Repeal Will Benefit Tennessee’s Economy
Repealing the Hall Tax not only incentivizes investment, the lifeblood of business, but also contributes to economic growth by allowing Tennesseans to keep more of their own money.
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Why No American Would Ever Vote to Stay in the European Union
It was amusing, in a car crash sort of way, to hear President Obama solemnly advise our British friends that, really, they must put aside their childish temper tantrum about…
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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 by a similar in the Empire State, called Start-Up NY.
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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. Among them was Kansas, which fell from its 2015 economic…
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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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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 side is swallowing its own bitter pill. Obama correctly conceded…
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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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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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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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Why The Left And Others Fear Fundamental State Tax Reform
The 2016 election cycle is in full swing, and so is the campaign to scare citizens and policymakers away from honest examination of tax reform ideas across the states. According…
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Cutting Cronyism and Taxes are a Maine Source of Opportunity
Sad news struck Maine’s once-thriving paper industry recently. Only months after Verso Corp. was forced to file for bankruptcy, Madison Paper Mill reported that…
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Rob Natelson Treats Texas Radio Listeners to a Lesson on Article V
This week Professor Rob Natelson, a member of the ALEC Board of Scholars and author of the ALEC Article V Handbook discussed the amendments convention process on Houston’s Morning News…
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Iowa must join wave of sentencing reform
Weldon Angelos was 25 years old when he was sentenced to 55 years in prison for selling a few pounds of marijuana to a police informant while in possession of…
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Trend of Tax Cuts in 2015 Show a National Appetite for Tax Reform
Seventeen states substantially cut taxes during their 2015 legislative sessions, and their taxpayers are enjoying the benefits.
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Centrally planned cronyism won’t save R.I.
A March 20 “Political Scene” article highlighted the 38 Studios fiasco, in which Rhode Island officials chose to meddle in the marketplace to disastrous results. Despite this case study in…