February 4, 2016
The proposals could drop the personal income tax rate from 6% to 5%. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Judson Hill recently introduced two tax reform bills. The first proposal would replace Georgia’s six […]
August 18, 2015
The journey of 10,000 steps a day has never been this much fun. Health Policy News and Views Compiled by Benita M. Dodd My opportunity to participate as a team […]
December 22, 2014
The states that cut taxes during the 2014 legislative year are: Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island and Wisconsin, according to a […]
September 18, 2014
This article was published in Reason magazine on July 28, 2014. By Ira Stoll A Republican member of the New York State Assembly emails: “I read a number of breathless […]
August 8, 2014
It’s Friday! Events August 28: Mark your calendar to hear former Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission Paul S. Atkins and the American Enterprise Institute’s Peter Wallison discuss the dangerous regulatory expansion […]
February 27, 2014
By Nina Owcharenko Medicaid needs reform, not expansion. This federal–state health care program provides health care to over 60 million Americans and consumes a growing portion of state and federal […]
May 17, 2013
May 17, 2013 It’s Friday! The Friday Facts is the Foundation’s most popular product, with more than 5,000 subscribers across the state. Have you shared the Friday Facts with YOUR […]
March 27, 2013
By Dr. Jeffrey Grossman In 1900, one-third of the American labor force was committed to agricultural production. In 1950, food consumed at home was 22 percent of a household’s […]
March 13, 2013
Health Policy Briefs Compiled by Benita M. Dodd As if you’re not sick about unemployment already: Federal authorities and industry experts say the link between the federal Affordable Care […]
March 5, 2013
Health Policy Briefs Compiled by Benita M. Dodd Update on ObamaCare: Florida’s Legislature, not Gov. Rick Scott, will have the final word on whether the state expands Medicaid. And […]
January 18, 2013
Studies show that this nation trails a number of other countries in the use of electronic medical record systems. By Albert Woodard Hurricane Sandy is only the most recent reminder […]
January 15, 2013
Health Policy Briefs Compiled by Benita M. Dodd So much for individual responsibility: Merrill Matthews, resident scholar at the Institute for Policy Innovation, has two articles that should be […]
September 13, 2012
(Editor’s Note: Lawrence W. Reed is President of the Foundation for Economic Education. Reed will deliver the keynote address, “The Seven Principles of Sound Public Policy,” at the Georgia Legislative Policy […]
September 7, 2012
(Editor’s Note: This profile of Texas Public Policy Foundation President Brooke Rollins is republished with permission from the Independent Women’s Forum. Rollins will discuss the Texas free market economy at […]
August 9, 2012
The new Georgia Land Bank Act expands local governments’ abilities to create a land bank, an organization with sweeping authority to acquire and dispose of vacant, abandoned or delinquent properties. […]
April 11, 2012
By Mike Klein Georgia built its economic strategy over the past couple decades around being a good place to raise a family with low taxes and a business friendly environment. […]
January 25, 2012
This morning the conservative Tax Foundation released its comprehensive analysis of state tax structure policies that impact business growth. The message for Georgia: We Can Do Better. Georgia is ranked […]
August 6, 2010
It’s Friday! Quotable – “The great variable in the federal balance sheet has been spending, not revenue. Debt comes from spending more than you have, not from having too little. Does anyone […]
September 19, 2008
By Benita M. Dodd For any Georgians still wondering about the need to see what government is up to with their tax dollars, it’s highlighted by the most recent example: […]
March 21, 2008
By Benita M. Dodd Sunshine Week, the effort to promote open government, is celebrated nationally this year from March 16-22. But the campaign launched (appropriately) in the Sunshine State in […]
February 22, 2008
By Kelly McCutchen “We might hope to see the finances of the Union as clear and intelligible as a merchant’s books, so that every member of Congress and every man […]
January 18, 2008
By Vance Smith (Excerpted from remarks by Georgia Rep. Vance Smith (R-Pine Mountain), chairman of the House Transportation Committee, at a Georgia Public Policy Foundation Policy Briefing Luncheon on transportation.) […]
October 3, 2003
By Wendell Cox and Ronald D. Utt As much as 20 percent of federal transportation funding goes to transit, which serves less than 2 percent of travelers. Of the many […]
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