The Supreme Court’s controversial ruling in Kelo v. City of New London (2005) unleashed a wave of eminent domain reform in state legislatures across the country. Ilya Somin, Professor of Law at George Mason University, teamed up with ACRE to look back at efforts made by the Arkansas legislature to protect private property, and to list the areas in current Arkansas eminent domain law that are still ripe for reform.

Listen to our brief here on Soundcloud, or download the PDF: http://uca.edu/acre/files/2018/05/ripe-for-reform.pdf

Ripe for Reform: Eminent Domain Law in Arkansas

UCA Assistant Professor of Economics and ACRE Scholar Jeremy Horpedahl and Nicole Kaeding, Director of Special Projects at the Tax Foundation, show that there are important lessons for Arkansas legislators to learn from other states and principalities when considering how to proceed on tax reform. Utah, Indiana, North Carolina and the District of Columbia implemented “smart, sensible” tax reform measures that can “dramatically improve competitiveness.” While the authors list multiple examples Arkansas should emulate, they also tell a cautionary tale about the “haphazard” tax reform efforts in Kansas.

Listen to the article here on Soundcloud, or download the PDF: http://uca.edu/acre/files/2018/05/otherstatestaxreform.pdf

Learning from Other States Successes and Failures in Tax Reform

Have you ever wondered whether tax breaks and subsidies have side effects? Are you curious about alternative ways to grow Arkansas’s economy? This policy review gives an in-depth look at these programs, their economic impact, and some common misconceptions people have about them.
Listen to the review here on Soundcloud, or download the PDF: http://uca.edu/acre/files/2016/06/JBundrick_TaxBreaksSubsidies.pdf

Tax Breaks and Subsidies

Civil Asset Forfeiture is a practice of law enforcement where the stated purpose is to combat drug trafficking. However, police are allowed to seize any asset if they suspect it is connected with any criminal activity. Guilty Until Proven Innocent, a policy brief written by ACRE affiliated Research Analyst Maleka Momand, looks at this process in Arkansas.

You can read the entire brief here: https://uca.edu/acre/guilty-until-proven-innocent/

Guilty Until Proven Innocent: Civil Asset Forfeiture In Arkansas

ACRE is dedicated to teaching, understanding, and advancing the principles that support prosperity so we can apply them to improve the lives of all Arkansans.

The Arkansas Center for Research in Economics (ACRE) is a privately-funded research and education center housed in the University of Central Arkansas  College of Business. 

Academic and policy-based research drives ACRE’s commitment to personal and economic freedom—principles proven to lead to improvements in human well-being.

ACRE’s dual endeavors are to use its research to find solutions for the issues Arkansans face in their daily lives; and to train the next generation of researchers, teachers, voters, and business leaders.

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