Over the next two years, Virginia taxpayers will pay more than $1.2 billion in added state tax taxes … unless the General Assembly acts to reform our tax code when it conforms to federal changes. The Thomas Jefferson Institute solution is simple: Double the state standard deduction, helping nearly 2.8...
Is the company that makes ladders legally responsible if you fall off of one? Or if you cut yourself picking up broken glass, is the maker of that glass legally liable? You probably think such lawsuits would be “silly” and should be tossed from the courts immediately. And then again,...
Health may be correlated with income and Virginia may have the ninth-highest average household income among the 50 states, but the Old Dominion ranks 23rd in the nation for the incidence of diabetes, according to a Gallup-Sharecare report based on 2017 data. The incidence of diabetes has increased from 10.6%...
(Editor’s note: As Virginia plans for future road construction, expansion and possible High Occupancy Toll lanes, this article is important to that discussion.) Big-data firm INRIX last month released its 2017 Global Traffic Scorecard. It reports data on the extent of traffic congestion in 1,360 metro areas worldwide. Of the...
On October 22, 2018 a Superior Court of California in San Francisco denied Monsanto’s motion for a judgment notwithstanding the verdict for $289 million verdict in the glyphosate trial (a request for a trial judge to reverse the verdict for lack of fact or law.) The Superior Court judge conditionally...
(Editor’s note: Criminal Justice Reform is an important issue which crosses the red and blue political lines and brings significant parts of the conservative and liberal communities together for the good of our society. The First Step Act highlighted by Governor Huckabee will be voted on in the U.S. Senate...
In 1973 OPEC countries imposed an oil embargo to retaliate for US support of Israel during the Yom Kippur War. Drivers endured soaring gasoline prices, blocks-long lines, hours wasted waiting to refuel vehicles, and restrictions on which days they could buy fuel. America was vulnerable to those blackmail sanctions because...
The American Community Survey data on vehicle ownership and commuting mode choice were released last month by the U.S. Census Bureau. The headline finding was that the fraction of those working mostly at home nationwide—5.2%—now exceeds the national average for those commuting by transit—5.0%. This has been true of a...
Wisconsin has a butter grading law. Let’s start there. Earlier this month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit ruled that Wisconsin’s butter grading law does not violate the Commerce Clause, the Equal Protection Clause nor the Due Process Clause of the U.S. Constitution. Why should you care?...
Top Northern Virginia business, economic, and political leaders gathered at George Mason University on October 29, 2018 to hear economists, trade association leaders, and financial analysts discuss the national and state economies, the impact of the federal Tax Cut and Jobs Act, the need for state tax reform, and the...
