Jackson, Mississippi – A Jackson-based think tank today called on candidates and public officials to “put principle above politics and partisanship.”
The Mississippi Center for Public Policy (MCPP) has published a booklet titled Governing by Principle: A Framework for Governing. The 45-page “primer” lays out ten principles the Center believes public officials—and the public in general—should be guided by in evaluating public policy. The primer is being sent to all candidates for legislative, regional, and statewide office and to several thousand supporters of the Center throughout the state. (more…)
You might have heard me talk about our organization's Governing by Principle campaign, which coincides with this year's election campaign for legislative and statewide offices. We have identified ten principles we believe are essential for setting and evaluating state-level public policy. (more…)
I've just returned from Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was there that Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and more than fifty others pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor not simply to a new nation, but to the principles on which that nation would stand. (more…)
Governing Principles
If you've ever thought about running for the Mississippi legislature, now is the time to decide. March 1 is the filing deadline to run in the August primary and the November general election. (more…)
Eminent domain is the process by which government can take property from private citizens and use it for a public use, such as roads. (more…)
Monday, January 29, has been declared Milton Friedman Day to celebrate the life of perhaps the leading proponent of free market economics in the world. Friedman, who died in November, received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1976 at age 64, but continued at full pace until his death 30 years later espousing his belief that free markets are essential for economic and political freedom throughout the world. (more…)
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There has been much talk lately in Washington and in Jackson about raising the minimum wage for hourly employees. It's one thing for governments to require a minimum wage for government employees. But it's quite another for governments to tell private businesses how much they can pay their own, private employees. (more…)