Indeed, high taxes, coupled with intrusive regulation of business and greenery taken to silly extremes, have gradually strangled what was once America's most dynamic state economy.
Many of Mr Murkowski's own proposals for boosting the state economy, such as a plan to increase logging in the Tongass National Forest, require the federal Forest Service to spend millions building new roads.
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"Families need to be able to return to their homes, and the state economy, which took a hit from Superstorm Sandy, needs the boost from spending on repairs, " Gov. Cuomo said in a news release.
He thinks states with smaller economies like Mississippi and West Virginia should not be investing more heavily in K-12 education because when kids get a good early education they tend to leave the state and the state economy does not benefit.
Although Romney had a chorus of Democrats to reckon with in the State House, he ultimately took credit for the healthcare reform law, and for running a successful state economy as measured by median income and employment statistics during his term.
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It would mean that a state could establish a direct advantage to its local economy by imposing tax penalties and regulatory bans to force businesses of all sorts to make inefficient choices to the detriment of consumers but to the benefit of the state economy.
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As a result of his analysis Daly says that we must have a steady state economy: the economy can only grow as fast as better technology allows us to add more value to or be more parsimonious with the use of those limited resources that we can use.
One would expect that the voting pattern could be influenced by large factors: the Iraq War, the state the economy, the price of gasoline.
Considering the current state of economy, self-paying students and students at the crux of career change had to rely on their network and alums to help out rather than the school pitching in.
But it has been forced to revise downwards its estimate of the overall state of economy after it admitted that it had not included some figures in the latest estimates for GDP that would bring down the growth rate further.
The definitive role is played by the conditions which the state sets for the economy - and by the ability of the state to safeguard the implementation of these conditions.
Their public pronouncements on the state of the economy provide a rallying point for conventional wisdom.
For much of its history, the state's economy depended largely on harvesting its vast forests.
So what do owners find so disheartening, beyond the generally anemic state of the economy?
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But its odd, state-dominated economy makes it particularly sensitive to verdicts of this kind.
The argument is that the demand for services remain steady regardless of state of the economy.
For that to happen, economists state that the economy must add at least 150, 000 jobs.
But the state of the economy means that many customers are delaying making big purchases.
The state of the economy, which relies heavily on "fickle" markets like tourism worries everyone.
In the end, the state gets an economy-boosting business that it paid little to help build.
But politicians in California say requiring cuts in global warming emissions will help the state's economy.
Disapproval of the Iraq war and the state of the economy are just too high.
That said, Americans' perceptions of the actual state of the economy have not changed much.
Still, the Fed made it clear it is concerned over the state of the economy.
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Second, it is hard to disentangle the effects of regulation from the state of the economy.
But the flood that washes away all other arguments is the state of the economy.
This was no mere statistic or forecast or description of the general state of the economy.
The state's economy increasingly needs workers who have been educated beyond high-school level.
The building society's chief economist, Robert Gardner, said this stability reflected the "uncertain" state of the economy.
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