MARKETS WORK BETTER THAN MANDATES
This is a stunning expansion of the government's power over our lives. It violates the principles of our nation's founders. The Mississippi Center for Public Policy will continue to fight for free-market solutions to our nation's health care problems. (more…)
I have some great news, and some bad news.
First, the bad news. Charter school legislation is dead for this legislative session. Thousands of children will go another year without being able to escape the schools that are failing to meet their needs. (more…)
Attn: PERS Study Commission
Written Statement of Dr. Jameson Taylor
V.P. for Policy at the Mississippi Center for Public Policy
September 14, 2011 (more…)
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A recent column in The American Spectatormagazine provides an important perspective for conservatives: we need to re-focus on principles, not parties. If we do that the right way, the politicians will respond, but if we don't engage - if we pull out of the debate because the political parties have let us down - we may never regain our country. (more…)
A prominent Mississippi businessman is asking the taxpayers of Mississippi to give him 17 million dollars to help his company. He told a Senate committee that the reason he was asking for the money was because the legislature had provided millions of dollars to other companies, and since he had been in business 43 years and had never asked the legislature for anything, he wanted them to give him some money, too. (more…)
The free market is often touted as the best, most efficient way to allocate resources and is treated as if free markets were "natural." This brief article will discuss and elaborate on the crucial ingredient of "PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY" and its necessity if free markets are to perform their role of efficient resource allocation. The first three "R's" stand for EDUCATION (Reading, Writing, Arithmetic), but the fourth "R" (Personal Responsibility) is even more significant in that it under-girds the application of education. If personal responsibility is not taught and reinforced along with other educational tools, all economic systems, including those that emphasize "free markets" will under-perform and ultimately self-destruct. (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…)
The legislature has been in special session this week, and some of the thirty-or-so items on the agenda would be controversial under normal circumstances. But, as we all know, these are not normal circumstances. (more…)