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Tax and Budget Policy

• How to Avoid Closing Washington State Parks
  Leonard Gilroy
  May 17, 2013, 1:57pm
• Rethinking Washington State Parks: How to Avoid Governor Inslee’s Plan to Close 60 State Parks
  Antiquated, top-down management model is unsustainable; private sector can play major role
  Leonard Gilroy
  May 17, 2013
• Louisiana Republicans Introduce Bills to Replicate Massachusetts's Pro-Union, Anti-Privatization “Pacheco Law”
  Leonard Gilroy
  May 9, 2013, 7:36pm
• Louisiana Republicans Introduce Bills to Replicate Massachusetts's Pro-Union, Anti-Privatization “Pacheco Law”
  Bills would effectively shut down use of privatization, competitive contracting to lower costs of government
  Leonard Gilroy
  May 9, 2013
• Innovators in Action: Jacksonville, FL Commissioner of Public-Private Partnerships Renée Finley on Building the City's PPP Program to Drive Efficiency, Quality of Life
  Leonard Gilroy
  May 7, 2013, 3:36pm
• Building Jacksonville’s Public-Private Partnership Program to Drive Efficiency, Quality of Life
  Interview with Renée Finley, Commissioner of Public-Private Partnerships, City of Jacksonville, Florida
  Leonard Gilroy
  May 7, 2013
• Innovators in Action 2013
  How governments and agencies are using market-based policies to improve services, become more efficient and reduce costs
  Leonard Gilroy
  May 7, 2013
• New at Reason: Looking Back at the Last Year in Local Government Privatization
  Leonard Gilroy
  May 6, 2013, 4:25pm
• Developments in Local Government Privatization
  Annual Privatization Report 2013 examines local government privatization trends
  Harris Kenny, Adam Summers and Steven Titch
  May 6, 2013
• Time to Scrap the Tax Oligopoly
  A better solution to companies keeping their profits in low-tax jurisdictions is to scrap corporate taxes altogether
  Julian Morris
  April 25, 2013
• New at Reason: Looking Back at the Last Year in State Government Privatization
  Leonard Gilroy
  April 22, 2013, 1:43pm
• State Budget Update
  Subsection of Annual Privatization Report 2013: State Government Privatization
  Leonard Gilroy
  April 22, 2013
• Developments in State Government Privatization
  Annual Privatization Report 2013 examines privatization trends at the state level
  Leonard Gilroy and Lisa Snell
  April 22, 2013
• State Privatization News and Notes
  Subsection of Annual Privatization Report 2013: State Government Privatization
  Leonard Gilroy
  April 22, 2013
• New Jersey Announces Lottery Privatization Contract Award
  Leonard Gilroy
  April 12, 2013, 5:12pm
• Leave It to California
  Furloughs Lead to Higher Leave Payouts to State Workers
  Adam Summers
  April 9, 2013
• Innovators in Action: Swampscott, MA Selectman Barry Greenfield on Breaking the State’s Control of Municipal Pensions in Massachusetts
  Leonard Gilroy
  April 8, 2013, 8:45am
• Breaking the State’s Control of Municipal Pensions in Massachusetts
  Interview with Barry Greenfield, Town of Swampscott, Mass. Selectman and Founder/Publisher of EfficientGov.com
  Leonard Gilroy
  April 8, 2013
• Reform California’s Tax System to Boost Economy
  Adam Summers
  February 13, 2013, 6:26pm
• California Must Reform Tax Code to Spur Economic Growth
  State Should Eliminate Special-Interest Tax Breaks, Lower Business Taxes for All
  Adam Summers and Jon Coupal
  February 11, 2013
• California Tax Increases are Bigger Than They Look
  Adrian Moore
  February 9, 2013, 6:23pm
• Minimum Wage Hike Would Hurt California Economy
  Long Beach is now suffering the unintended consequences of minimum wage laws
  Adam Summers
  February 1, 2013
• New Reason Study Calls for California Tax Reform
  Adam Summers
  January 30, 2013, 2:04pm
• Reason-Rupe Poll: 79 Percent of Americans Say Federal Spending Hasn’t Improved America’s Quality of Life
  Survey finds 49 percent if Americans support going back to Clinton-era spending levels
  January 30, 2013
• Base California's Budget on Performance, Not Politics
  To Gov. Brown, it's more responsible for the state government to just keep spending money on autopilot without wasting time measuring effectiveness or reviewing results
  Leonard Gilroy
  January 29, 2013
• Better Service. Better Price.
  How privatization can streamline government, improve services, and reduce costs for Kansas taxpayers
  Leonard Gilroy, Harris Kenny and Todd Davidson
  January 28, 2013
• California Shouldn't Raise Minimum Wage
  Adam Summers
  January 28, 2013, 2:31pm
• Gov. Brown Uses Tricks to 'Balance' CA Budget
  Budget 'balanced' with tax hikes, smoke & mirrors
  Leonard Gilroy
  January 18, 2013
• Innovators in Action 2012, Year in Review
  Harris Kenny
  December 31, 2012, 12:00pm
• ‘Yellow Pages Test’ Would Ease State, Local Budget Pains
  Innovative governments applying competition to service delivery, public assets
  John Palatiello and Leonard Gilroy
  December 31, 2012
• Privatizing Lottery Management in Pennsylvania
  Interview with Pete Tartline, Executive Deputy Secretary of the Budget, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
  Leonard Gilroy
  December 20, 2012
• Unmasking the Mortgage Interest Deduction - Update 2012
  Who Benefits and By How Much?
  Anthony Randazzo and Dean Stansel
  December 12, 2012
• California, Los Angeles Drowning in a Sea of Taxes, Regulation, and Debt
  Public Knows Burdensome Regulations Are Sending Jobs to Other Cities and States
  Adam Summers
  December 3, 2012
• Internet Gambling: The Keys to a Successful Regulatory Climate
  How the government can embrace and regulate online gambling
  Steven Titch
  November 13, 2012
• Future Storms Like Superstorm Sandy Could Bankrupt States
  Some state governments are so far into the insurance business that they could be bankrupted by storm claims
  Julian Morris and Katie Furtick
  November 5, 2012
• Learning to Trust the Private Sector
  Contracting out helps to build the case for a larger private sector role in public service delivery
  Leonard Gilroy
  October 26, 2012
• The Value of the Contract Model
  Incremental privatization can offer a proof of concept that works to break down societal conceptions of “traditional” government
  Leonard Gilroy
  October 18, 2012
• Understanding Correctional Privatization in Florida
  Harris Kenny
  October 9, 2012, 8:33pm
• Correctional Privatization Improving Outcomes in Florida
  Letter to the Editor Submitted to The Palm Beach Post
  Harris Kenny
  October 9, 2012
• The Incremental Approach to Privatization
  Incremental advances help build the case for longer-term privatization
  Leonard Gilroy
  October 3, 2012
• Tortoises and BrightSource Are Costing Taxpayers Dearly
  Latest green energy boondoggle shows why the government shouldn't be picking winners
  Julian Morris
  September 10, 2012
• To Avoid Massive Tax Hikes, Privatize State Lotteries
  An innovative new lottery privatization model is emerging.
  Leonard Gilroy and Harris Kenny
  August 30, 2012
• Gov. Brown's Pension Reform "Outline" Underwhelms
  Adrian Moore
  August 28, 2012, 6:11pm
• To Avoid Massive Tax Hikes, Privatize State Lotteries
  Harris Kenny
  August 23, 2012, 11:59pm
• Congress Kicks the Can Down the Road on Sustainable Highway Funding
  The future debate over mileage-based user fees
  Robert Poole
  August 6, 2012
• Defending Limits on State Tax Powers
  Steven Titch
  July 31, 2012, 6:26pm
• Innovators In Action 2012
  How governments and agencies are using market-based policies to improve services, become more efficient and reduce costs
  Leonard Gilroy and Harris Kenny
  July 31, 2012
• Sales Tax Funding and Useless Rail Projects are Major T-SPLOST Negatives
  Baruch Feigenbaum
  July 26, 2012, 4:00pm
• Atlanta T-SPLOST is Complicated
  Baruch Feigenbaum
  July 26, 2012, 1:17pm
• California Is Ground Zero for Muni Bankruptcies
  When will lawmakers start rethinking how municipalities should operate?
  Harris Kenny and Leonard Gilroy
  July 26, 2012

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