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Policy Studies: Budget Donald Rumsfeld - August 01, 1995
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1. Five Steps to a Smaller, More Effective Federal Government
Define the "Core" Business. ... (read more)
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Policy Studies: Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate Eli Lehrer and Michelle Minton - May 18, 2009
For the second year in a row, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and The Heartland Institute asked two fundamental questions about America’s property ... (read more)
Eli Lehrer - March 17, 2008
This report card outlines the methodology and results of a joint Heartland Institute/Competitive Enterprise Institute project to produce a 50-state report ... (read more)
Eli Lehrer - March 17, 2008
This Property & Casualty Insurance Report Card assigns grades to the 50 states of the United States based on the effectiveness of their property and ... (read more)
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Policy Studies: Taxes David Tuerck, Ph.D., Paul Bachman, Steven Titch, and John Rutledge, Ph.D. - May 31, 2007
Communication services today consist of voice, video, and Internet access services delivered over telephone wires, cable TV lines, or wirelessly (via point-to-point ... (read more)
Fred E. Foldvary - January 01, 2006
This analysis explains why land value taxation is, as Milton Friedman once put it, the “least bad” tax. An ideal tax system respects a person’s ... (read more)
Fred E. Foldvary - January 01, 2006
This analysis explains why land value taxation is, as Milton Friedman once put it, the “least bad” tax. An ideal tax system respects a person’s ... (read more)
Fred E. Foldvary - January 01, 2006
This analysis explains why land value taxation is, as Milton Friedman once put it, the “least bad” tax. An ideal tax system respects a person’s ... (read more)
March 26, 2003
Chicago, IL – One of the most popular economic development tools in municipalities across the country, tax increment financing (TIF), often does ... (read more)
Developing Neighborhood Alternatives project - March 26, 2003
Tax Increment Financing (TIF) is an economic development tool that uses the expected growth (or increment) in property tax revenues from a designated geographic ... (read more)
Developing Neighborhood Alternatives project - March 26, 2003
In Part 1 of Volume 1, we summarize data on the effects of five TIF districts in Chicago, including changes in the number and types of businesses, number ... (read more)
Developing Neighborhood Alternatives project - March 26, 2003
Evaluations of TIF typically focus only on the number of new jobs thought to be created in the TIF district and how much property values rose. Such evaluations ... (read more)
Joseph L. Bast and Diane Carol Bast - April 01, 1997
To understand how tax policies in the U.S. ought to be changed, it is necessary to know how and why they have changed in the past. This report traces ... (read more)
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WHAT'S NEW: Budget John Nothdurft - November 18, 2009
Gov. Bill Ritter wants to transfer $132 million in taxpayer money into the government’s coffers by increasing taxes on soda, candy and Internet purchases.Those ... (read more)
James G. Lakely - November 17, 2009
Florida transportation officials, worried about the state gas tax bringing in too little revenue, have proposed a high-tech alternative: Tracking where ... (read more)
Eileen Norcross - November 17, 2009
This was to be the year that Xanadu, a two million-square-foot entertainment/shopping complex, was to open in the New Jersey Meadowlands. Promising an indoor ... (read more)
Victor E. Schwartz and Christopher E. Appel - November 12, 2009
We have all heard of federal bailouts for our insurance companies, automobile companies, and even banks, but few realize that buried in a deep silo on Capitol ... (read more)
Steve Stanek - November 11, 2009
With taxes on beer, wine, and spirits in Illinois having jumped nearly 25 to 90 percent, depending on the item, on September 1, buyers of alcoholic ... (read more)
WHAT'S NEW: Taxes John Nothdurft - November 18, 2009
Gov. Bill Ritter wants to transfer $132 million in taxpayer money into the government’s coffers by increasing taxes on soda, candy and Internet purchases.Those ... (read more)
James G. Lakely - November 17, 2009
Florida transportation officials, worried about the state gas tax bringing in too little revenue, have proposed a high-tech alternative: Tracking where ... (read more)
Eileen Norcross - November 17, 2009
This was to be the year that Xanadu, a two million-square-foot entertainment/shopping complex, was to open in the New Jersey Meadowlands. Promising an indoor ... (read more)
Victor E. Schwartz and Christopher E. Appel - November 12, 2009
We have all heard of federal bailouts for our insurance companies, automobile companies, and even banks, but few realize that buried in a deep silo on Capitol ... (read more)
Steve Stanek - November 11, 2009
With taxes on beer, wine, and spirits in Illinois having jumped nearly 25 to 90 percent, depending on the item, on September 1, buyers of alcoholic ... (read more)
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