Prosperity States Initiative

The ProsperityStates.org Initiative delivers:

State-of-the-art regulatory and fiscal best practices to a local community.
State and local law reforms to level the playing field and protect freedom.
If two states pass the same legislation, those reforms are shielded from special interest interference.
If Congress consents, reforms within the Prosperity District become federal law.
It is a reset button to create jobs and economic growth for any community that wants it.

The Facts and the Policy:

Learn More:

Byron J. Schlomach, PhD, Yield to the Market: How Prosperity Districts Would Competitively Furnish Municipal Services, Policy Brief No. 16 (Compact for America Educ. Found. 2016) (explains how just about every municipal service and more could be delivered more efficiently through competitive outsourcing and public private partnerships in a Prosperity District).

Mark Lutter, PhD, Prosperity Now: Arizona, Policy Brief No. 15 (Compact for America Educ. Found. 2016) (reveals that thousands of new jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars of new economic growth could arise as soon as five years after a baseline Prosperity District is formed in Arizona).

Adrian Moore, PhD, Cut the Red Tape: Prosperity Districts and Reinventing the Role of Regulation, Policy Brief No. 14 (Compact for America Educ. Found. 2016) (a thorough look at the dangers of excessive regulation and how the Prosperity District model policy applies the state-of-the-art in regulatory reform ideas to protect economic liberty and growth).

Sam Batkins, JD and Dean Clancy, MA, It's Been Done Before: How Prosperity Districts Deliver Policies that Work, Policy Brief No. 13 (Compact for America Educ. Found. 2016) (a deep analysis of how the Prosperity District model policy combines all of the best practices that have led to explosive growth, jobs and freedom in places as diverse as Estonia, Hong Kong, Dubai, Disney World, Monaco, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the mining towns of the California Gold Rush).

Baker Spring, MA, Sam Batkins, JD, and Nick Dranias, JD, Walt Disney’s Vision Inspires the Prosperity States Initiative: How Prosperity Districts Adopt and Improve on the Disney World Model, Policy Brief No. 12 (Compact for America Educ. Found. 2016) (a side-by-side comparison of the Reedy Creek Improvement District created for Walt Disney World and the Prosperity District model policy).

Nick Dranias, JD, The Prosperity Zone Compact: Leveraging the Power and Promise of Interstate Compacts to Bring Back the American Dream, Policy Brief No. 10 (Compact for America Educ. Found. 2016) (a comprehensive assessment of the constitutionality of the interstate compact vehicle underpinning the Prosperity Zone movement).

William Boyes, PhD, Arizona State University Center for the Study of Economic Liberty Working Paper: A 21st Century Prosperity District In Arizona: What International Experiments Can Teach Us (2016) (a study investigating and assessing the gains to jobs, economic growth and wealth from this project).

Mark Flatten, Protection Racket: Occupational Licensing Laws and the Right to Earn a Living (Goldwater Institute 2016) (an investigative report into the anti-competitive purpose and effect of occupational licensing)

Nick Dranias, JD, The Local Liberty Charter, Phoenix Law Review (2010) (a research paper on the public policy problems and reform principles underlying a similar project).

Jerry Ellig, PhD, Ten Principles for Better Regulation (Mercatus Center at George Mason University 2013)

Tom W. Bell, Working Paper: Special Economic Zones in the United States: From Colonial Charters, to Foreign-Trade Zones, Toward USSEZs (Chapman University School of Law 2016)

Fred Foldvary, The Ultimate Tax Reform: Public Revenue from Land Rent (CSI Policy Study, Santa Clara University 2006) (a policy paper explaining the benefits of basing revenue on the value of real property)

Byron Schlomach, PhD, Lessons from Texas on Building an Economically Healthier Arizona (Goldwater Institute 2012) (a policy report identifying best practices for public policy based on the Texas model)

George Kelling, PhD & Catherine Coles, PhD, Keeping America Safe: Best Practices to Improve Community Policing and Protect the Public (Goldwater Institute 2011) (a policy report identifying the best practices of community policing)