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NY Last in Business Climate: Report Date: April 13, 2012 ALBANY — The Empire State’s economic outlook remains at the bottom of the national heap in a conservative think tank’s annual survey of the states. “New York ranks dead last [...]

Laffer and Moore:  A 50-State Tax Lesson for the President Wall Street Journal Over the past decade, states without an income levy have seen much higher growth than the national average.  Which state will be next to abolish theirs? Barack [...]

Washington To The Citizens: Don’t Confuse Me With The Facts! by Ralph Benko “Don’t confuse me with the facts. I’ve got a closed mind.” These words were famously uttered by Rep. Earl Landgrebe (R-IN), a Nixon partisan to the bitter [...]

By Jonathan Williams Just in time for election season, junk economics is making a 2012 comeback bid. Some well-funded groups on the extreme Left are pulling out all the stops to beat pro-taxpayer reforms in the states under the guise [...]

By Jonathan Williams  Just in time for election season, junk economics is making a 2012 comeback bid. Some well-funded groups on the extreme Left are pulling out all the stops to beat pro-taxpayer reforms in the states under the guise [...]

By Jonathan Williams Just in time for election season, junk economics is making a 2012 comeback bid. Some well-funded groups on the extreme Left are pulling out all the stops to beat pro-taxpayer reforms in the states under the guise [...]

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 [...]

Commissioned by the Institute for Legal Reform, the study uses a first of its kind econometric model to estimate the economic savings that could be achieved by individual states through improving their legal climate. The report clearly demonstrates that much [...]

The American Tort Reform Association released its annual report profiling America’s most consistently unfair and unbalanced civil jurisdictions. Visit www.judicialhellholes.org to download the report.