Focus Point – Abolishing The Corporate Income Tax

When Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill said he favors abolishing the corporate income tax, he was simply echoing the sentiments tax reformers on the left and right have shared for decades. Abolition would do more to improve the economic competitiveness than almost anything congress could do.

Giving a Leg Up to Bootstrap Entrepreneurship

The regulatory climate for very small, neighborhood-based businesses, or microenterprises, in large American cities can significantly influence urban economic dynamism. Case studies of Boston, Dallas, Atlanta, and Los Angeles help illuminate the complexity and detail of regulatory barriers to entrepreneurship and identify programs and other efforts to encourage neighborhood-based development.

Focus Point – Fairness Goes Too Far

In 1995, attorney Phillip K. Howard introduced a note of sanity into the public discourse with a book called "The Death of Common Sense." Things haven't improved much since then, so he's back with "The Lost Art of Drawing The Line: How Fairness Went Too Far."