Arizona Legislature Must Act to Prevent Zoning Abuses
“Don’t California my Arizona” has become a popular rallying cry for Arizonans fearful that new residents fleeing the neighboring state might bring its destructive big government policies with them. One important change the Arizona Legislature could make to prevent Arizona from turning into California is to prevent abuse of the zoning process against the development […]
Georgia Must Advance Red Tape Rollback Act to Provide Relief for Independent Businesses
It’s been more than a month since the Georgia Senate passed a crucial measure to provide regulatory relief for Georgia independent businesses, but as the Legislature begins its final week of the session, the measure is still pending in the House. The Red Tape Rollback Act (SB 28) advanced out of the Senate with a […]
Katie Hobbs’ Arizona Promise: More Government Jobs
During her 2025 State of the State Address, among her many exaggerations, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs made the dubious claim that “since [she] became governor, we’ve created[1] nearly 200,000 jobs.” This claim was suspect at the time, and the recent release of Arizona’s latest monthly employment data confirms just how misleading it really was. At […]
Arizona Voters Chose Free Enterprise
Just before Thanksgiving and with all the votes finally counted, Arizona officials met to certify the state’s results from an election in which Arizonans chose free enterprise. From state ballot measures to local ballot measures to state legislative races, free enterprise notched key victories up and down the ballot. Although several positive ballot measures came […]
Georgia Voters Support Independent Businesses with Tax Relief
When Georgians went to the polls last month, among the many races on the ballot was a measure crucial to Georgia’s independent businesses that will increase Georgia’s personal property tax exemption from $7,500 to $20,000. Georgians overwhelmingly voted yes, with more than 64 percent supporting the measure to relieve some of the burden on independent […]
Katie Government Jobbs Returns from Summer Vacation
It’s been a few months since we published an in-depth look at Arizona’s employment report, and with new numbers out last week from the state Office of Economic Opportunity it is worth taking another look at the state’s labor market. This month’s headline numbers What not to like A slight uptick in the unemployment rate […]
Big Labor’s Labor Day Lie
Americans around the country recently marked another Labor Day; in addition to enduring the summer heat, we also had to endure another cycle of big labor activists—and a vice president—falsely giving big labor credit for various benefits enjoyed by American workers. Vice President Kamala Harris is not the first executive branch official to make this […]
Kamala Harris’ “Increase Home Prices By $25k Act”
The US is in the midst of a years-long housing affordability crisis largely due to a significant shortage of housing supply. Estimates of the shortage suggest it’s at least 4-7 million homes. What can be done to address this shortage? If you ask Vice President Kamala Harris, the answer is apparently to stimulate housing demand […]
Failed Socialist Policy in a New Wrapper: Kamala Harris’ Price Controls
The great free market economist Thomas Sowell once noted: Nothing is easier, or more emotionally satisfying, than blaming high prices on those who charge them, rather than on those who cause them.…People with no experience in business, no knowledge of history, and utterly ignorant of economics do not hesitate to leap from high prices to […]
Taxpayer-Subsidized Loans to Illegal Immigrants – What Could Go Wrong?
Loans for illegal immigrants have become a priority for activists recently. As part of that push, last year, Joe Biden’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Department of Justice leaned on banks and other financial institutions to start making loans to illegal immigrants. The CFPB warned lenders that denying a loan due to “unnecessary” reliance […]