Entries by RI Center for Freedom

RI Medicaid Abuse Puts New Spin on “Laundering” Taxpayer Dollars

These new laundry worker revelations depict the waste and abuse in the laundering scheme where local and national taxpayer dollars are recycled first through the government via collection of taxes, then, in the Eleanor Slater case, sent to state-run facilities in the form of excessive Medicaid payments, with the money then further cycled directly into the pockets of privileged union employees – in this case, to laundry workers via exorbitant overtime payments.

Zero.Zero 2012

ELIMINATE THE STATE SALES TAX TO CREATE JOBS: The RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity proposes the elimination of Rhode Island’s sales tax as a means of high-impact economic development. Our RI-STAMP economic model suggests that the loss in state revenue would not be as large as static projections might suggest and would be well worth the boon to Rhode Islanders across the state.

“Get Government Out of the Way”: a free-market solution for the RI economy

To revive the Ocean State’s failing economy and to restore prosperity to our citizens, the RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity recommends that we re-embrace free-enterprise principles and tear down the legislative barriers to success that have been erected over recent decades. The Political Class does not get it … but citizens do: 83% of attendees at a recent public forum see government as an obstacle to economic development.