Tuesday  7 July 2015 / Hour 1, Block B: Edward Paul Lazear, Hoover & WSJ, in re:  Why the Recovery Still Limps Along. Worst have high taxes. Ohio has had challenges, but look at Kasich's [tax-cuts] effect on Ohio: pretty strong in employment.  California raising taxes but in a recovery; Cal is about dead-center in my study. It's the home of technology, with much growth;  land prices have skyrocketed. When you face a 13%-plus tax rate on the margins, makes you think twice. Tax policies have worked against the solvency of the state.
    Why the Recovery Still Limps Along, A number of current and former governors will be running for president in 2016, and each will tout his state’s accomplishments and claim credit for the positives, deserved or not. Politics aside, cross-state comparisons provide a real-world experiment that helps show which economic policies work and which don’t.  (2  of 2)