PolicyGuy

Wednesday, March 30, 2005


Taxes: Time for a Tax Limitation Measure in Ohio.
Ohio went from a low-tax to a high-tax state in 1994, and now sees its state government growing at a rate that will double within 14 years.

Higher-tax states experience lower rates of growth than lower-taxed states. So it's time for a Taxpayers Bill of Rights. A PDF version of a report from the Buckeye Institute is here. Having read many such reports, the PolicyGuy commends it as one of the more comprehensive accounts.

"Justice Louis D. Brandeis'?s metaphor of the states as "laboratories" for policy experiments ... had almost nothing to do with federalism and everything to do with his commitment to scientific socialism. .... To this day, it continues to inhibit a truly experimental, federalist politics." -- Michael S. Greve

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