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‘It’s really great to see that states are prioritizing cutting taxes instead of just growing government’

Jonathan Williams on political benchmarking and the rush to flat income taxes

James M. Hohman | September 23, 2022

‘There’s a tax break industrial complex that’s got everybody hornswoggled’

Greg LeRoy lays out the Overton Window on selective business subsidies

James M. Hohman | September 9, 2022

‘In today’s world your email address and your cell phone numbers are digital currency’

Ryan Green and Austin Berg on persuading people to reject progressive income taxes

James M. Hohman | August 26, 2022

‘I know this from the colorful mail I receive from readers’

Ingrid Jacques on winning people over through columns and editorials

James M. Hohman | August 12, 2022

‘There’s a lot of reasons for skepticism.’

Rich Samp on a Supreme Court case that reined in the administrative state

August 3, 2022

‘Show the effects that bad policy has on individuals’

John Kay on the Right to Earn a Living

James M. Hohman | July 15, 2022

‘It’s no different than building a network of friends’

Claire Kittle Dixon on where to find good people to work in free market organizations

James M. Hohman | July 1, 2022

‘That’s wrong. It’s morally wrong. It’s economically wrong. It’s just bad policy.’

Richard Vedder on his career as a policy advocate professor

James M. Hohman | June 17, 2022

‘Not yet, but we’re close’

Jeremy Baker on changing policy through candidate recruitment

James M. Hohman | June 3, 2022

'Transparency is for government and privacy is for people'

Heather Lauer on getting lawmakers to pass donor privacy laws

James M. Hohman | May 20, 2022

‘Powers that no one had exercised before’

Daniel Dew and Michael Van Beek on gubernatorial authority in emergencies

James M. Hohman | May 6, 2022

‘You keep grinding and grinding and grinding — it's almost like a rugby scrum —until there is that opening’

Russ Latino on the legislative battle for tax cuts in Mississippi

James M. Hohman | April 22, 2022

'These past two years in general really show you that when parents band together they can really push for change'

Corey DeAngelis on the rush the fund students and tweeting for school choice

James M. Hohman | April 8, 2022

‘At the start, it had nothing to do with policy, it was about us understanding the issue’

Randy Hicks on taking a bottom-up strategy to state policy reform

James M. Hohman | March 25, 2022

‘They are trying to juggle all these different values and different demands.’

Jason Hayes on how states manage their parks and forests

James M. Hohman | March 11, 2022

‘People will vote for the party that does not raise their taxes.’

Grover Norquist on the Politics of Tax Reductions

February 25, 2022

'Remember When We Thought Cellphones Were Going to Cause Brain Cancer?'

Michelle Minton on the nicotine policy debate

James M. Hohman | February 11, 2022

“Get Out There, Motivate Others, And Do What You Believe In”

Tori Aultman on campus engagement during COVID

James M. Hohman | January 28, 2022

“Don’t Stop. Keep Talking to People. Keep Promoting the Idea.”

Byron Schlomach on the power of research in public policy

James M. Hohman | January 14, 2022

“Public Resources Should be Put to Public Use”

Matthew D. Mitchell and Jonathan Riches on outlawing favoritism

James M. Hohman | December 17, 2021

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