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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kaitlyn Buss Phone: 202-742-8526 Email: kbuss@alec.org  Statement by Alan P. Dye on Latest Harassment Tactic Against ALEC by Liberal Front Groups WASHINGTON – Alan P. Dye, legal counsel to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), issued [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kaitlyn Buss Phone: 202-742-8526 Email: kbuss@alec.org Statement by ALEC on the Coordinated Intimidation Campaign Against Its Members (Washington, D.C.) April 11, 2012—Ron Scheberle, Executive Director of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) issued the following statement [...]

Common Cause posted today a press release and a blog concerning ALEC and Representative Eric Cantor, along with several other elected officials. The claims made against ALEC in this report are utterly false. Common Cause routinely does not check their facts [...]

The Heartland Tax Rebellion More states want to repeal their income taxes. Published February 8, 2012 Wall Street Journal   Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin is starting to feel surrounded. On her state’s southern border, Texas has no income tax. Now [...]

Utah tops national economic report By Jasen Lee, Deseret News Published: Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012 4:00 p.m. MST SALT LAKE CITY — For the fourth straight year, Utah ranks no. 1 for economic outlook among all 50 states, according to a new [...]

A recent study from the left-wing Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) concludes, almost laughably, that taxes do not motivate people to leave high-tax states. The study’s authors argue that weather may have more of an effect on migration [...]

Comprehensive tort reform, from the article’s perspective, helped Texas recover from a shortage of doctors in underserved areas of the state.

With the economy showing no signs of a quick recovery, states are trying to figure out how to weather the financial storm as a new fiscal year begins this month for most of them…