Welfare Calling now FREE in Rhode Island

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Welfare or food-stamp recipients in over 20 US states – INCLUDING RHODE ISLAND – are now eligible to receive a FREE cell phone with FREE minutes. Yet another example of the ever-expanding entitlement state mentality, programs like these take a byte of our your economic liberty (by taxing service providers who pass the cost on to you) and takes a byte out of the dignity and independence of the recipients.

If you we really believe that “cell phone ownership is a right”, what comes next? Read the Heritage blog here …

Evergreen turns red!

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More proof that government intervention in the economy – especially when advancing a politcal agenda – simply does not work. This bad deal cost our taxpaying neighbors in Massachusetts over $58 MILLION! Another byte out their economic liberties. Click here for the Boston Herald story …

The Rhode Island Center for Freedom & Prosperity is a think tank that works to balance the policy debate in the Ocean State through free-market ideas.

What is a Free-Market “Think Tank”?

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THINK TANK // noun: a group or organization dedicated to problem solving and research (as in social or public policy). As the free-enterprise “idea factory” for Rhode Island, and as part of a national network of state-based think tanks advancing liberty-based solutions, our goal is to develop and relentlessly promote research-based, free-market policy recommendations.

FREE MARKET // noun: the basic system used to exchange goods or services where buyers and sellers come together to mutually agree on a fair value without external dictation of that value.

The Rhode Island Center for Freedom & Prosperity will seek to change and balance the debate by educating key constituencies until we create a window of opportunity where meaningful reform can be implemented and take root.

Part of a national network of approximately 58 state-based think tanks, our Center is able to draw upon both local national research resources.