An Economy Based On LeBron James

In the viral “Hastily Made Cleveland Tourism Videos” of the Great Recession era, comedian Mike Polk provided a panorama of his faded hometown. The scenes were of “crippling depression,” the opportunit...

The Origin Of The Rust Belt – Part 1

In our new book Taxes Have Consequences: An Income Tax History of the United States, my co-authors Arthur Laffer, Jeanne Sinquefield, and I devote two chapters to the states and their imposition of ne...

States Continue To Take Steps Toward Income Tax Elimination

Mississippi capitol in Jackson getty Aside from death and taxes, the third certainty in life, at least in 2022, is that states are going to enact income tax relief. That was predicted in this space se...