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Instead of spending $16 million next year on slush fund projects, the state could begin phasing out the sales tax on manufacturing machinery and equipment (MM&E) and the corporate franchise tax on borrowed capital. PAR recommended removing these two impediments to economic development based on its 1994 and 2002 studies of corporate tax burden comparisons […]
PAR Recaps Its 62 Recommendations for State Development Posted: 02/23/2004 Over the past six months, the Public Affairs Research Council (PAR) has issued a series of four white papers addressing issues facing the new administration and Legislature to be elected this fall. The papers focused on the economic development potential of reforms in higher education, […]
PAR Clarifies Misleading Headline Posted: 01/23/2004 An inaccurate headline on a story run statewide by various media has misled readers concerning the Public Affairs Research Council’s (PAR) position. The story was entitled “Official urges state to change oil, gas cap.” PAR did not urge the state to raise the cap on the amount of state […]