JOHN HOOD
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JOHN HOOD: When licensing isn’t worth the cost (opens the original)
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When economist and Hoover Institution scholar Thomas Sowell famously observed that âthere are no solutions, only tradeoffs,â the North Carolina native wasnât suggesting that public-policy analysis was useless. Sowell has spent much of his lengthy career engaged in it. To say that doing X to achieve Y will inevitably cost Z is not to throw up oneâs hands. It is merely to frame a series of questions for which there are at least partial answers. For example, what are the projected values of
JOHN HOOD: Tax reform must be sustainable (opens the original)
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Earlier this month, the voters of Missouri decisively defeated a constitutional amendment authorizing an end to the stateâs income tax. It was an overwhelming defeat â 17% for, 83% against â for a ballot measure that failed in urban, suburban, and rural counties alike. Did this event just set off a progressive counteroffensive against 15 years of state-level tax reform across the country? Thatâs no academic question in North Carolina, a leader in the tax-reform movement. Through legislat
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