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Commentary: Jindal’s Prison Sale Proposal Highlights Issue of Criminal Justice Reform

By Jamison Beuerman
12/15/2010
State corrections systems, like most governmental services, have rapidly expanded over recent years in size and number, which in turn forces local governments to continually allocate expanding sums of tax dollars.

TAGS: crime, Governor Jindal, Grover Norquist, Newt Gingrich, prisons, Right On Crime, Texas Public Policy Foundation

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A Tax Plan for Our Brighter Future


A Tax Plan for Our Brighter Future paper-digital In Louisiana’s Comeback: A Tax Reform for Our Brighter Future, the Pelican Institute identifies the state’s significant tax problems and proposes a path to set the state in a brighter direction, including flattening the personal and corporate income taxes to 3.5% rates, reducing the number of tax preferences, eliminating...

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