GOP Ideas: Use Enterprise Funds to Develop Emerging Economies
The Polish American Enterprise Fund (PAEF) was a foreign investment program that provided a return on U.S. taxpayer dollars --- and became the only foreign aid program to return money to the U.S....
View ArticleGOP Idea: Follow Texas' Example on Banking Regulation
As Congress begins to debate financial reform and starts batting around highly complex regulations, various regulatory structures, new departments and more government, conservatives would be wise to...
View ArticleMitch Daniels, Green We Can Believe In
Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels is building a green economy the right way --- by focusing on recruiting viable companies (that happen to produce green technology) into his state --- instead of focusing...
View ArticleMitch Daniels (Finally) Takes a Victory Lap
In the WSJ Mitch Daniels lays out one of his two major health care initiatives: Health Savings Accounts for state workers. As usual his logic is sound and his facts well grounded. However, he is once...
View ArticleGOP Ideas .... The Goal
This site started after the drubbing Republicans took in 2008 with the goal of identifying and analyzing policy innovations that would serve three goals of conservatives: overall reduction in...
View ArticleSocial Impact Bonds: Private Risk, Public Reward
A few local governments including New York City and Peterborough, England are experiments with a concept that rewards private investors if their programs reduce social spending. Social Impact Bonds...
View ArticleTraining for Jobs in High Demand
Governor Sam Brownback of Kansas is implementing a program that will provide scholarships to high school students to earn technical training and certifications in high need occupations. The...
View ArticleRick Snyder: Using Behavioral Economics in Pricing Higher Education
Governor Rick Snyder of Michigan (whose ads described him as "one tough nerd"), instituted a plan that provided extra money for state universities that kept their tuition rate increases under 4.1% for...
View ArticleExtra Benefits for Government Employees Saves Taxpayer Money
In something that is sure to separate the efficient government conservatives and the stop-coddling-the-bureaucrats crowd, a number of recent studies show that government agencies can save money by...
View Article$1 of Bogus Tax Break Equals $1 of Spending
In any honest debate over the budget, two separate forms of spending needs to be recognized: direct spending by the government on goods, services and transfers and indirect spending consisting of...
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