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Monthly Archives: January 2016
Governor’s Corporate Tax Cut Will Have Little Impact
Governor McAuliffe has proposed a quarter of one percent cut in the corporate income tax rate (from 6% to 5.75%). This puny tax cut will have a minimal impact on economic growth. Indeed, it will only create 280 new jobs in five … Continue reading
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Rights and Wrongs of Interstate Tolling
Now that Congress has added use-it-or-lose-it provisions to the federal pilot program that allows three states to each replace a worn-out Interstate highway using toll finance, interest in the subject is increasing. Last fall Missouri DOT held a workshop (at … Continue reading
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A Poverty-Fighting Program That Pays Its Own Way
People have lots of ideas about how to address poverty. Most of them don’t work, as the United States has learned from more than 50 years of building a welfare state. Ever-hopeful social reformers always have some bright new idea … Continue reading
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EPA Accused of WOTUS Propaganda Violation
“At issue here is whether EPA violated publicity or propaganda and anti-lobbying provisions…” regarding appropriations from Congress (GAO letter December 14, 2015, to U.S. Senator James M. Inhofe.) The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded EPA violated the ‘propaganda prohibition” of … Continue reading
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State Leaders Must Act to Curb Federal Regulators
The expanding power of federal regulators to dictate edicts from Washington would astonish the authors of our Constitution. Regulators who re-interpret laws passed years ago in ways never intended by Congress threaten the checks on executive branch power that have … Continue reading
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