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Dear Reader, If you believe, as I do, that every American deserves an efficient, effective and accountable government that puts the people in control, then you will want to check out the latest LAFFER-ALEC Report on Economic Freedom which grades America’s fifty governors. ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council, is America’s largest nonpartisan, voluntary membership organization of state legislators dedicated to the principles of limited government, free markets and federalism. For the past two years, ALEC has worked with former Reagan economist Dr. Arthur Laffer and his team of free-market economists to rank our governors. We invite you to check out our governor rankings and then rank your governor. We have two goals in producing this report. First, we want to provide governors themselves with a measure of their performance in the hopes they will strive mightily to continually improve their respective policy environments. You cannot solve a problem without first explicitly measuring it. Second, we want to inform the citizenry of how well their governors are doing relative to all governors. At ALEC, we believe that states are the 50 laboratories of Democracy and when governors know better, they can do better. How does your governor rank? Our scorecard shows that top-ranked governors:
Ultimately, the choice of where people work and live is theirs and theirs alone, as we have pointed out for years in our annual Rich States, Poor States report. And this choice is the great mediator of the cauldron of state innovation and competition when it comes to government policies. Many governors across the country are doing great work in promoting individual liberties and freedoms by lowering taxes and eliminating government waste and bureaucracy. Find out if your governor is one of them. After you’ve checked out your governor’s ranking, we give you the option to give your own ranking! Sincerely,
Lisa B. Nelson CEO, American Legislative Exchange Council |
