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Strangely, CATO missed the AZ, IN, and MS budget crises

…Assembly-passed budget a few months ago, the decline in tax revenues from financial services firms and continuing loss of upstate industry, and underfunded pension obligations whose origins date back to…

Cap-and-Trade Proposals…and truth in spending

…that the revenue is returned to households. From data in the report we can calculate the economic cost in each year (percentage loss times the base welfare level in each…