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Seven State Snapshot: Are You Living in the Right State?

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Do you live in a right-to-work state or a non-right-to-work state, where compulsory membership in a union can legally be a condition of employment? Is your state’s income-tax rate competitive with those of neighboring states—or the rest of the country, for that matter? Is your state adding residents or losing residents? And are you getting […]

You Will Not Believe This

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North Dakota is doing all the little things to help it manage its natural resources effectively, like keeping taxes low and being a right-to-work state. As Joel Kotkin writes in his Wall Street Journal editorial: Already fourth in oil production behind Texas, Alaska and California, the state is positioned to advance on its competitors. Drilling […]

A Winning 2012 Presidential Ticket

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Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina), in an act that’s worthy of a 2012 U.S. presidential candidate (more on that in a moment), is standing up to the unions. On Tuesday, DeMint introduced the National Right to Work Act, to do away with forced unionism. He and seven other cosponsors seek to protect the free choice of […]

Wisconsin’s Lord of the Rings

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“This is the Master-Ring, the One Ring to rule them all.” The Lord of the Rings, by JRR Tolkien Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin is in the fight of his life to destroy the Master-Ring of Wisconsin: collective bargaining by public union employees. For it is collective bargaining that empowers public-sector unions over the fiscal […]

President Obama’s Badger State

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Isn’t it amazing how quickly civility is thrown out the window when the tables are turned? It has been 72 years since the GOP controlled the legislature and the Governor’s office in Wisconsin so it shouldn’t be a surprise to anybody, including President Obama, that Governor Scott Walker is making good on his campaign promise […]

Buy BMW

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Does it makes sense that the United Auto Workers (UAW) is tapping into its $800-million strike fund to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to force foreign automakers to unionize? Does it make sense that the Obama administration is allowing 45,000 federal Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers to unionize? Workers at BMW in Spartanburg, South […]

GE & Obama: Imagination at Work

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Your big winner from the State of the Union address is GE, along with its CEO, Jeff Immelt, the newly appointed head of President Obama’s Economic Advisory Board. Welcome to the world of big-government, big-business crony capitalism, where corporate slogans take on an entirely different meaning. I’m sure the guys in GE marketing weren’t thinking […]

21 Million Underemployed

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President Obama mentioned in his State of the Union Address that over 1 million jobs were added last year, yet he didn’t mention the 14.5 million unemployed Americans or the 6.5 million Americans that have given up looking for work. How do you think these 21 million underemployed Americans felt when they heard the president […]

Escape to Wisconsin

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Money goes where money is well treated. It’s that simple. Look no further than the state of Wisconsin’s newly elected GOP Governor Scott Walker and his new slogan to businesses in neighboring states, “Escape to Wisconsin.” And escape they will, as he works to eliminate the corporate income tax for two years and most likely […]