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proceeds from ever-higher taxes. Rather, it’s to put Virginians back in control of economic development by giving them more control over their own hard-earned dollars.
As Virginia’s economy expands and Commonwealth officials debate ever more exotic development ideas, they would do well to heed the advice of Thomas Jefferson, who wrote, “If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.”
Henry N. Butler is director of Project Virginia and a senior fellow in political economy, and Jerome Ellig is a research economist with Citizens for A Sound Economy, a 250,000-member independent public policy research organization.
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