38 Questions on the Superman Building
The Center asks 38 questions about the proposed taxpayer-backed renovation of the Superman Building in Providence.
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The Center asks 38 questions about the proposed taxpayer-backed renovation of the Superman Building in Providence.
The RI Center for Freedom and Prosperity submitted the following pieces of testimony to the appropriate House and Senate committees regarding proposed 2013 pieces of legislation. As an IRS approved, […]
Why Rhode Island needs a Default Mens Rea Provision Download a PDF of the 2013 policy brief here ; related Senate Bill No. 414; related 2012 policy brief 2014 GoLocalProv Article […]
According to estimates from the RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity, state legislation to increase the minimum wage to $8.25 per hour would cost the state 432 jobs, 204 of them belonging to teenagers. Federal legislation to increase it to $10.10 per hour would destroy 3,466 Rhode Islanders’ jobs.
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.
The RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity’s second-year Report Card on Competitiveness shows the Ocean State barely treading water.
The release by the Chafee Administration of a redacted report on waste and fraud in Rhode Island’s human services programs failed to provide the total taxpayer dollars discovered by Ken […]
Keeping Families at Home in Rhode Island Families are being torn apart in the Ocean State, both geographically and financially. With the worst jobs outlook in the entire nation, […]
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.
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.
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