Tag Archive: competitiveness
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Happy Tax Freedom Day!
Ben Wilterdink | April 18, 2013 | Add a commentEach year, the Tax Foundation releases a report on Tax Freedom Day – the day when the annual tax burden is paid off and people are able to keep their income. This year, that day is April 18. The calculation is a measurement of the total amount Americans earn in … »
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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Long on Opinion, Short on Research
ALEC Blog Team | February 20, 2013 | Add a commentThe Left-wing Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) is out with a new essay attacking the economic basis for low tax, free-market, limited government policy proposals like those laid out in Rich States, Poor States. In reality, CBPP’s paper is a case study in poor research methods, self-referentialism, and confirmation bias. The … »
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PPACA on Campus: Professors and Students Lose Out
Ed Walton | January 30, 2013 | Add a commentEvidence of the unintended consequences of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) continue to abound. This time, adjunct professors—a group comprising an estimated 70% of university faculty in the U.S.—are facing reduced hours due to the employer mandate provisions in the law. A recent Wall Street Journal article … »
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Don’t Let Government Break the Internet
Alex Rued | January 28, 2013 | Add a commentIt’s great to hear just about anybody speak on Internet freedom, but U.S. Representative Steve Scalise did the topic justice at this year’s State of the Net Conference in Washington, DC. Discussions at the highly-anticipated conference ranged from Big Data and the Cloud—perhaps the most used and least understood terms of … »
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No Snake Oil, Life is About Incentives
ALEC Blog Team | December 10, 2012 | Add a commentBy Jonathan Small, CPA Many have heard the saying, “You reap what you sow.” This is an undeniable fact of life, reality. Essentially, this saying means that productive efforts eventually yield constructive results and destructive efforts eventually yield damaging results. Recently, two groups — the Iowa Policy Project and Good … »
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A New Dose of Junk Economics
Despite the mountains of credible statistical evidence, the growing scholarly economic consensus, and sheer common sense, another report is released to claim that taxes don’t matter in state economies. The Iowa Policy Project (IPP), a liberal state policy group, and Good Jobs First, a big-labor mouthpiece, have teamed up to … »
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Health Care Freedom Results
Sean Riley | November 7, 2012 | Add a commentMeasures in four states—Alabama, Florida, Montana and Wyoming—were on the ballot last night relating to ALEC’s model Freedom of Choice in Health Care Act. Preliminary results show the measures passed as constitutional amendments in Alabama (Amendment 6) and Wyoming (Amendment A), and as a referendum in Montana (LR 122). The … »
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ALEC to States: Repeal Renewable Energy Mandates
Todd Wynn | November 5, 2012 | Add a commentALEC adopts Electricity Freedom Act and discusses it on Master Resource (a free-market energy blog). “As the debate over subsidies, handouts, and cronyism for renewable energy continues, so too will the debate surrounding state-based renewable energy mandates. Fundamentally, forcing state citizens to purchase a product they may not be able … »
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Capital Gains Taxes: The Phantom Menace
Andrew Bender | November 5, 2012 | Add a commentFilm fans are abuzz over news that George Lucas will sell LucasArts, along with the globally renowned “Star Wars” franchise to Disney for a staggering $4 billion. But as Quentin Fottrell at The Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch illustrates, the decision may have more to do with taxes than filmmaking. The … »
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Is Broadband a Monopoly?
Alex Rued | November 1, 2012 | Add a commentBroadband is often described as the “core” of the Internet ecosystem—little more than the basic infrastructure across which users interact, and subject to heavy-handed government regulations that reflect this assumption. However, AEI visiting scholar Jeffrey Eisenach challenges this assumption, arguing instead that broadband is an integral part of the Internet … »
