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Economic Freedom

Public Private Partnership Bridges and Tunnels Proliferate

(This column first ran in Surface Transportation Innovations. Virginia has many bridges and many needed road projects. This column offers ideas for our policy leaders to consider.) From large to...

Bob Poole
August 9, 2012

Rail to Dulles Issue Continued – Response to “Transportation Conservatives”

(This response from Gabe Roth is part of the articles that have been carried in the Jefferson Policy Journal on June 21 (here) and July 16, 2012 (here). I do...

Jefferson Forum
August 9, 2012

Virginians Work 204 Days Just to Pay for Government

Every year, the Americans for Tax Reform Foundation and the Cost of Government Center release the Cost of Government Day Report. The report measures the calendar day until which the...

Jefferson Forum
July 26, 2012

Are U.S. Managed Lanes Self-Supporting?

(This article first appeared in Reason Foundation’s Surface Transportation Innovations newsletter.) One of the most successful recent managed lanes projects is the one on I-95 in Miami, helped into existence...

Jefferson Forum
July 26, 2012

Overtaxed Marylanders Flee to Virginia

Our high-tax neighbor Maryland is hemorrhaging residents as it struggles to maintain funding for its big-spending government. As Change Maryland’s chairman Larry Hogan noted recently in Reason magazine, the state...

Jefferson Forum
July 12, 2012

A Tale of Two Marks: How Virginia Keeps Healthcare Costs Needlessly High

This column originally ran in the Washington Times.) Nearly one billion people worldwide now use Facebook, less than ten years after its founding. But what if, before Mark Zuckerberg launched...

Jefferson Forum
July 12, 2012

Gabriel Roth Betrays Transportation Conservatives

(Authors’ Note: While the Jefferson Institute Journal published Mr. Gabriel Roth’s essay, “A Better Way to Improve Transit to Dulles,” before the Loudoun County, Virginia Board of Supervisors approved the...

Jefferson Forum
July 12, 2012

2012-2013 Virginia Economic Forecast: Expanding Broadband: Jobs, Innovation and Rural Development

Although Virginia is faring better than the rest of the nation, a robust economic recovery in the Commonwealth continues to be dampened, according to the 2012-2013 Virginia Economic Forecast, the...

Christine Chmura
July 10, 2012

Loudoun Metrorail Study Released

The Thomas Jefferson Institute today released a paper by two experts presenting an altenative view of Loudoun County’s possible participation in Rail to Dulles, so that members of the Loudoun...

Jefferson Forum
June 30, 2012

Jefferson Forum concentrates on policies that affect everyday life in Virginia

Economic Freedom

Lower taxes and fewer regulations

Education Freedom

More choices for Virginia families

Energy Freedom

Reliable, affordable energy

Worker Freedom

Protecting Virginia’s right-to-work tradition

These are the building blocks of a more competitive and prosperous Virginia.