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For Cities, a 20-Year Roadmap to Prosperity and Freedom

Jan 17, 2012 Comments Off by

By Nick Dranias At least one Arizona city understands that the key to economic growth is more freedom and lower costs levied on businesses. The City of El Mirage recently announced that it was abandoning “impact fees” – regulatory hurdles that hold a developer’s property rights hostage. The fees are supposed to cover the cost [...]

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New York City is not North Korea, but . . .

Jan 16, 2012 Comments Off by

In the previous post, I wrote the following:

Most on the American left would not like to live in a country like North Korea any more than any other sane person would. And needless to say, we’re not like North Korea and never …

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