Business & Economics

Business & Economics

Ending the Revenue Rollercoaster – The Benefits of a Three Percent Flat Income Tax for California

The PRI flat-tax plan for California will greatly simplify the current tax code. It will completely eliminate the alternative minimum tax, as well as estate, inheritance, and gift taxes. It will also revamp the convoluted, loophole-ridden corporate and personal income-tax codes with a simple flat rate of 3 percent on ...
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WBYS 1560-AM News for 5/13/2008

(Washington D.C.) — A new report by the Pacific Research Institute — a California think tank — compares the legal climates of all 50 states. According to this year’s U.S. Tort Liability Index, Florida ranked the worst in terms of tort costs, while North Dakota ranked the best. But the ...
Business & Economics

Flat state income tax shows promise

San Jose Mercury News (CA), May 12, 2008 Flat state income tax shows promise How can anyone disagree with the Pacific Research Institute’s report (Opinion, May 9) that a flat state income tax (3 percent) would be simpler, more fair and much less subject to cheating than our current, complicated ...
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New speaker’s agenda

SACRAMENTO — Assembly Speaker-elect Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, sounds as if she wants to continue the good working relationship with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger forged by outgoing Speaker Fabian Nunez, also a Los Angeles Democrat. Bass, who takes office Tuesday, said at a news conference today that Schwarzenegger has talked to ...
Business & Economics

Designing the Market’s Mechanisms

LAST YEAR, THREE AMERICANS WON THE NOBEL MEMORIAL PRIZE in Economics for laying the foundations of “mechanism design” theory. The work of Leonid Hurwicz, Roger Myerson and Eric Maskin was cited for its help in implementing efficient voting, trading and regulatory schemes. In the laureates’ terms, a mechanism is a ...
Business & Economics

How a flat income tax can help California

Californians may have paid their federal and state taxes last month, but the Golden State remains in a fiscal crisis, with a projected 2008-2009 fiscal year budget deficit as high as $20.2 billion, according to the governor’s estimate on April 29. Such budget crunches hit California because of its highly ...
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Mississippi’s Tort Reform Triumph

For most of the past 30 years, Mississippi has ranked as one of the poorest as well as one of the most litigious states. The two statistics are related. I met with Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour recently, and this politician, best known for helping his state rebuild after Hurricane Katrina ...
Business & Economics

Conservative flat tax idea could serve liberal ends

Facing a shortfall that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has estimated at $20 billion, Democratic lawmakers in the Capitol are looking for a way to raise tax revenue. They might want to adopt and modify an idea advocated by a conservative think tank – and increase tax revenue while lowering tax rates. ...
Business & Economics

Excessive regulations a major barrier to business growth

The General Assembly has spent a great deal of time in recent years working on legislation that will help build a stronger business climate in Ohio. In 2005, we passed tax reform, which included a 21 percent income tax cut for Ohio taxpayers; the elimination of the state’s tangible personal ...
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Actions Speak Louder than Words

A Contrarian column, as readers have come to know, is a relatively simple matter of refuting the latest foolishness from militant feminists and socialists, who are often the same people. In that cause, however, I have never attempted anything on the scale of Adam Shepard, author of Scratch Beginnings: Me, ...
Business & Economics

Ending the Revenue Rollercoaster – The Benefits of a Three Percent Flat Income Tax for California

The PRI flat-tax plan for California will greatly simplify the current tax code. It will completely eliminate the alternative minimum tax, as well as estate, inheritance, and gift taxes. It will also revamp the convoluted, loophole-ridden corporate and personal income-tax codes with a simple flat rate of 3 percent on ...
Business & Economics

WBYS 1560-AM News for 5/13/2008

(Washington D.C.) — A new report by the Pacific Research Institute — a California think tank — compares the legal climates of all 50 states. According to this year’s U.S. Tort Liability Index, Florida ranked the worst in terms of tort costs, while North Dakota ranked the best. But the ...
Business & Economics

Flat state income tax shows promise

San Jose Mercury News (CA), May 12, 2008 Flat state income tax shows promise How can anyone disagree with the Pacific Research Institute’s report (Opinion, May 9) that a flat state income tax (3 percent) would be simpler, more fair and much less subject to cheating than our current, complicated ...
Business & Economics

New speaker’s agenda

SACRAMENTO — Assembly Speaker-elect Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, sounds as if she wants to continue the good working relationship with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger forged by outgoing Speaker Fabian Nunez, also a Los Angeles Democrat. Bass, who takes office Tuesday, said at a news conference today that Schwarzenegger has talked to ...
Business & Economics

Designing the Market’s Mechanisms

LAST YEAR, THREE AMERICANS WON THE NOBEL MEMORIAL PRIZE in Economics for laying the foundations of “mechanism design” theory. The work of Leonid Hurwicz, Roger Myerson and Eric Maskin was cited for its help in implementing efficient voting, trading and regulatory schemes. In the laureates’ terms, a mechanism is a ...
Business & Economics

How a flat income tax can help California

Californians may have paid their federal and state taxes last month, but the Golden State remains in a fiscal crisis, with a projected 2008-2009 fiscal year budget deficit as high as $20.2 billion, according to the governor’s estimate on April 29. Such budget crunches hit California because of its highly ...
Business & Economics

Mississippi’s Tort Reform Triumph

For most of the past 30 years, Mississippi has ranked as one of the poorest as well as one of the most litigious states. The two statistics are related. I met with Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour recently, and this politician, best known for helping his state rebuild after Hurricane Katrina ...
Business & Economics

Conservative flat tax idea could serve liberal ends

Facing a shortfall that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has estimated at $20 billion, Democratic lawmakers in the Capitol are looking for a way to raise tax revenue. They might want to adopt and modify an idea advocated by a conservative think tank – and increase tax revenue while lowering tax rates. ...
Business & Economics

Excessive regulations a major barrier to business growth

The General Assembly has spent a great deal of time in recent years working on legislation that will help build a stronger business climate in Ohio. In 2005, we passed tax reform, which included a 21 percent income tax cut for Ohio taxpayers; the elimination of the state’s tangible personal ...
Business & Economics

Actions Speak Louder than Words

A Contrarian column, as readers have come to know, is a relatively simple matter of refuting the latest foolishness from militant feminists and socialists, who are often the same people. In that cause, however, I have never attempted anything on the scale of Adam Shepard, author of Scratch Beginnings: Me, ...
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