New Hampshire Envy
In today’s article in the Portland Press Herald–“New Hampshire Envy” Takes a Seat in Augusta–there are a number of erroneous comments (in the comment section) in regards to New Hampshire’s […]
Read More →New Hampshire Inches Closer to Right-to-Work
Today the New Hampshire House voted to send the Senate version of the Right-to-Work bill to Gov. Lynch. The Governor has 5 days to sign it or let it become […]
Read More →Maine versus New Hampshire XIII: Right-to-Work
More bad new for Maine’s economy . . . New Hampshire is close to becoming a right-to-work state: The New Hampshire Senate voted 16-8 to pass a right-to-work bill this […]
Read More →The Great Tax Divide: Maine’s Retail Desert vs. New Hampshire’s Retail Oasis
Hopefully by now you’ve seen my latest study “The Great Tax Divide.” However, I do want to clear up a misquote in the article by the Portland Press Herald. They […]
Read More →Maine versus New Hampshire XII: Right-to-Work
The Union Leader is reporting that the New Hampshire House of Representatives has just passed a right-to-work bill 221 to 131. Currently, 22 states have right-to-work laws and none in […]
Read More →Per Capita versus Per Household Personal Income Part Deux
This is the follow-up blog to my previous post on Per Capita versus Per Household Personal Income to illustrate how per household income is a better metric than per capita […]
Read More →Per Capita versus Per Household Personal Income
For state-to-state comparisons, per capita personal income is the standard-bearer. Its simple to calculate and simple to understand; however, as I recently discovered it’s also simply misleading. Why? States where […]
Read More →Maine versus New Hampshire X
Scott Moody – Chief Economist So in the past few days we’ve seen a quite a bit of “gnashing of the teeth” over Amity Shlaes’s Bloomberg article. A few days […]
Read More →Maine’s Take-Home Pay
The following is a concept I’ve been working on that I call Maine’s “Take-Home Pay” which equals Maine’s per capita personal income minus per capita state and local taxes. In […]
Read More →Response to Charles Lawton
Charles Lawton’s article in Sunday’s edition of the Portland Press Herald made a number of points that I wanted to chime in on. First, he states: Ignoring the fact that […]
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