Guest Commentary: The Dark Side of “Economic Development” in New Orleans

By Editor

03/11/2011

The multi-billion dollar LSU and Veterans Affairs Hospitals project, seen by many as harmless economic development, has important implications for property rights and fiscal responsibility.

TAGS: Department of Housing and Urban Development, FEMA, Hurricane Katrina, Road Home, University Medical Center, Veterans Affairs

Commentary: Road Home Grant Money Going to Waste

By Jamison Beuerman

03/28/2010

The latest example of astonishing wasteful government spending in Post-Katrina New Orleans was described in a recent report by the Times-Picayune. In this example of progress impeded by bureaucratic incompetence, a study by a federal inspector general found that 80% of sampled recipients of Road Home elevation grants in 2006 and 2007 failed to use...

TAGS: Hurricane Katrina, Road Home, Transparency

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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