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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 [...]

Flatten California!  A Proposal to fix the State’s Business-killing Tax Regime By Arthur B. Laffer Six years ago, I decided to leave Rancho Santa Fe, California, for Nashville, Tennessee. That’s a major undertaking for anyone, but particularly for a 25-year [...]

Examiner Editorial:  A Tale of Two States Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, a liberal Democrat, and Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, a conservative Republican, are both young and telegenic, chairmen of their respective political parties’ national governors associations, and already in line [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kaitlyn Buss Phone: 202-742-8526 Email: kbuss@alec.org WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 28, 2012) – The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that the federal government can force individuals to purchase health insurance, whether or not they want or need [...]

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 [...]

ALEC And The Left’s War On Free Speech – Investors.com. If you want an insight into today’s left, look at its multifront war against the American Legislative Exchange Council for committing the grave sin of pushing free-market bills in state [...]