(This article is reprinted from Surface Transportation Innovations, a publication by the Reason Foundation that Bob Poole authors each month.) For the past two decades, the United States has missed out on one of the most significant advances in urban highway engineering: the deep-bore tunnel. Such tunnels are now in...
The Obama Administration’s anti-hydrocarbon ideology and “renewable” energy mythology continues to subsidize crony capitalists and the politicians they help keep in office – on the backs of American taxpayers, ratepayers and motorists. The latest chapter in the sorry ethanol saga is a perfect example. Bowing to pressure from ADM, Cargill,...
Can Virginia’s tax system be adjusted in a way that would be revenue neutral and grow our economy over the next several years? This new study by the Thomas Jefferson Institute says “Yes.” By re-arranging some of our current taxes, Virginia could dramatically improve our economy and provide substantial tax...
So, environmentally speaking, how are we doing on Earth Day? Do you think you are better off than you were 42 years ago? Hint, we celebrated the first Earth Day in 1970, 42 years ago. Well, you are. Indeed, our environmental progress has been massive, and if you’d like to...
There is a tremendous thirst in Virginia’s African-American population for higher education that is not reflected in minority enrollment at Virginia’s public colleges and universities. Only 13.8% of the students attending public institutions in the fall of 2008 were African-American. But 47.4% of the students enrolled in private, proprietary colleges...
It is unfortunate that a local issue of serious importance to our area rests in the hands of the Prince William County Circuit Court, and not with our locally elected officials as it should. Right now the Court has hijacked a zoning issue that should be decided by the Prince...
(Publishers note: Gary Baise is a nationally recognized environmental attorney who was a key part of the initial leadership team when the Environmental Protection Agency came into existence. He is a Virginia resident and the issues brought up in his columns are clearly of concern to all farmer, including those...
President Obama’s mantra du jour for his 2012 campaign speeches is “all-inclusive” energy. Any business touting this type of version of “all-inclusive” would be prosecuted for false advertising. When the President says “all-inclusive,” he means politically correct (PC) “green” energy (wind, solar and bio-fuels), and almost nothing that actually provides...
Hampton Roads area officials seem bent on delaying or cancelling the proposed public-private partnership (PPP) for the $2.1 billion Midtown Tunnel expansion over concerns about new tolls, preferring instead to ask state and regional leaders to shake a nonexistent money tree for transportation cash. But attacking the Midtown Tunnel partnership...
The Jefferson Journal: Tax Restructuring Can Benefit Every Virginian
What if you could improve Virginia’s economy by eliminating state income taxes on the working poor (and cutting taxes for everyone else) while creating thousands of new jobs? And what if, at the same time, you stimulated hundreds of millions in new business investments – even while eliminating three job-destroying...