NM’s Back-End Deal

Aren’t you glad you are being coerced into supporting these coming attractions? When will our government stop production of the fantasy that it can spend your money better than you can?

Big Government versus Economic Freedom

The recent interest in North Korea provides us with another reminder. Here is a stark contrast that even makes New Mexico look good:

Maybe we could entitle it “how big government saves energy.”
HT: Grover Norquist

Failed Education Yet Booming National Economy!

In citing David Henderson’s fine book The Joy of Freedom: An Economist’s Odyssey, George Leef explains why our national economy is doing so well despite our failed school system.
Wake up, New Mexico! You, too, can join in the prosperity.

Taxpayers’ Asserting their Rights Nationwide

After last year’s much-publicized battle over Referendum C and Colorado’s Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights, the conventional wisdom among the media was that the movement to create constitutional protections for taxpayers was dead.
Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, voters in Maine, Montana, Nebraska, and Oregon, will decide this November whether to adopt their [...]

A Picture Is Worth…

As Harry pointed out, New Mexico’s ranking for economic freedom among US states and Canadian provinces is quite dismal. New Mexico always seems to stand out on a map:

Not so pretty, is it?

Don’t Try Drowning Your Sorrows

New Mexico was near the bottom of the recent rankings of states and Canadian provinces:
New Mexico
New Mexico’s climate for economic freedom has worsened steadily over the past
two decades, to the point that, by 2003, its overall all-government ranking was 50th,
while the subnational fell to 47th after five straight years at 44th. Size of government
helped sink [...]

Economic Freedom of the World 2006

The Cato Institute has just released its 10th annual report on Economic Freedom. Whether it be big limitations or small limitations New Mexico continues to remain unaware of the benefits of economic freedom. For example, here is an excerpt from the press release:
“Economic freedom is unambiguously good for the [...]

NM’s Interior Design Cartel

New Mexico is one of five states which license the phrases “Interior Design,” “Interior Designer,” and “Designer.” Anyone can practice interior design in New Mexico, licensed or not, but you need the state’s permission to in any way indicate that you do such work. The law clearly isn’t designed to protect consumers, since anyone can [...]

Dueling Data on the Impact of Santa Fe’s Minimum Wage

In the last few weeks, dueling economic surveys have been published outlining the economic imact of Santa Fe’s minimum wage law. One study by the New Mexico Department of Labor found that “Santa Fe County added only 300 jobs between June 2005 and June 2006, the lowest rate of job growth in almost four years,” [...]

Freedom as an Incentive

If you caught Paul’s appearance on The Line last night, the discussion on government incentives to attract businesses to the state was especially useful. When a business is looking to locate in the Southwest, New Mexico is in competition with its neighbors. Two chief strategies come into play in this competition. States [...]

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