Matt B. @mcboch

If your economy is a knowledge economy you're worrying about mass unemployment. In contrast if your country has an industrial economy, you're looking at 10% year on year economic growth. Taiwan, South Korea, but eventually also less obvious ones like the Netherlands (ASML).

The Little Rock Port Authority helps connect Arkansas businesses to the global marketplace—it’s vital for creating good jobs and opportunity in our state.  I joined my colleagues @JohnBoozman and @RepFrenchHill in fighting for new funding for these important upgrades. arkansasonline.com/news/2026/jun/…

Cool paper from @JaredWalczak. To completely replace property taxes with sales taxes in Florida, you would need to at least double sales tax rates (but probably more, due to behavioral changes). A few counties would need to be 20% or 30%!

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Jared Walczak @JaredWalczak

6 days ago

@EsotericCD In this Tax Foundation paper, I estimate what replacement tax rates would have to be in several states, including Florida. In a forthcoming paper, I'll explore more of the distributional impact. Spoiler: virtually any replacement is a massive transfer from rural and suburban to

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The average American family pays roughly $4,200 a year because of lawsuit abuse. Higher car insurance. Higher home insurance. Higher costs throughout the economy. Lauren Zelt of @pactconsumers and and @RyanPatrickTX of @lawsuitreform joined @GroverNorquist to discuss why. Full podcast: youtu.be/J3S-NI3HY6o

"This site generates approximately 2,000 times the tax revenue it would have if was purely farmland." Data centers can single-handedly balance local budgets, provide money for roads, schools, community events, and more.

Chad Livengood @ChadLivengood

7 days ago

Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk is speaking at a press event at the site of the massive data center being built for Oracle and OpenAI in Saline Township. He acknowledged hundreds of acres of farmland being plowed under for the data center. "Look, I like farmland," Magouyrk said.

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“It’s key to note that these facilities indirectly support more than 1,000 jobs through contractors and others that work on the facility on an ongoing basis. And I’m not just referring to the construction,” Hull says. “The job multiplier for this sector is extraordinary.”

Virginia Business @VirginiaBiz

7 days ago

Google plans a $3 billion hyperscale data center in Botetourt County, Virginia, creating 150 jobs and boosting regional tech and manufacturing sectors. virginiabusiness.com/google-data-ce…

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Thanks to Arkansas Money & Politics for publishing my op-ed on the so-called "Educational Rights Amendment" and what it would really mean for Arkansas families and taxpayers. This proposal creates multiple massive universal welfare programs in our state constitution and forces taxpayers to fund them without any funding stream and no way to pay for it. The organizers have refused to tell people what they think it will cost. It is truly a blank check, and taxpayers get stuck with the bill.

Data centers = Jobs "But for workers, data centers aren’t about politics. They’re about jobs, especially as data centers emerge as a dominant source of new construction." subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews…

BuT dAtA cEnTeRs dOnT CrEatE jObS “Ohio construction expert credits job creation growth with data center boom” foxbusiness.com/video/63969981…

You can crash your yard's mosquito population without spraying a single chemical with a Mosquito Bucket of Doom. Fill a 5-gallon bucket about two-thirds with water. Drop in a handful of grass clippings, leaves, or hay. Let it sit for a day, then drop in a Bti dunk (also called Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis, sold at any hardware store as "mosquito dunks," about $10 for six). Mosquitoes are powerfully attracted to fermenting water and will lay their eggs in your bucket. Bti is a naturally occurring soil bacterium that produces a toxin that kills mosquito, blackfly, and fungus gnat larvae only. This method doesn't harm bees, butterflies, fireflies, fish, frogs, birds, pets, or people. BTI dunks are EPA-approved for organic use and safe in animal water troughs and birdbaths. One dunk lasts about 30 days. Top off the water as it evaporates. Cover with 1/2-in Mesh Hardware Cloth to prevent animals from getting trapped and put the bucket somewhere shady where pets and kids won't get into it. The bucket becomes a mosquito magnet and a dead end. Compare that to fogging the entire yard with pyrethroids, which kills every insect in it, including the predators that eat mosquitoes. Doug Tallamy's Homegrown National Park has been running the "Mosquito Bucket Challenge" since 2021. The more buckets in a neighborhood, the bigger the dent. One bucket per yard is a great start.

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As you relax on this weekend by streaming a movie on Netflix, listening to some music on Spotify, watching the NBA playoffs, or playing some online games, be sure to raise a glass to Data Centers, which make all of this possible.

This won't be popular with my fellow law school professors (or many lawyers), but the best possible outcome of the turmoil with ABA accreditation of law schools would be for states to allow undergraduate law degrees to suffice for admission to the bar. Universities could establish undergraduate law departments and students could combine the 7 years of education into 4. An internship would probably be required for admission to the bar after the undergraduate degree. This would align us with much of the rest of the world. The JD would remain as an optional graduate degree credential. If it has value, people will pay for it. If it doesn't, then they won't. There's just no need to have a separate undergraduate major in political science or French or whatever before beginning legal training.

2) is less common, but is a good idea. Basically, State governments can pass a lw that says, "Whenever a locality's property tax revenue rises by more than X% more than underlying changes in mill rates over Z years, the mill rate is automatically reduced by Y% of X" This would basically give automatic tax cuts when home values rise rapidly. The point is, if real estate prices suddenly go up 20%, that doesn't create 20% more obligations for local government. Localities would still get some revenue windfall from rising home values, which is good because it incentivizes localities to adopt good policies that make the locality valuable and desirable, but it creates some protection for homeowners. Whenever there's a huge price spike, rates automatically partially offset. I think these two reforms, which do not penalize young families or shift burden onto them, are both good ideas, should be universally adopted, and would eliminate most of the concerns with the property tax.

Charitably, there are I think two ways to help seniors manage their property tax burdens: 1) Deferment. 17 states do this, more should. Basically allow property taxes to be punted onto the point of sale or the next owner. 2) Automatic citywide revenue-balancing rate-adjustment

Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬 @lymanstoneky

2 weeks ago

Social security is inflation adjusted. Medicare is taxpayer provided The mortgage is paid off. You're not raising kids. You can afford a property tax bill which averages out to 1% of the equity you could withdraw from the house.

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The US is building a lot of data centers, much more than the past. But we are also building a lot of warehouses. And other types of buildings. This is what happens in a growing, modern economy! economistwritingeveryday.com/2026/05/27/the…

@jmhorp Lincoln Institute write up also good. lincolninst.edu/publications/w…

The solution to soaring property taxes is not abolishing the tax for some groups, nor establishing assessment limits (such as CA's Prop 13), which create their own set of problems. The solution is levy limits, which put a constraint on revenue growth taxfoundation.org/research/all/s…

A proposed data center in Little Rock could pay 5,000 times as much in property taxes as same land currently pays arkansasonline.com/news/2026/may/…

"Google announced a new $15 billion investment in building infrastructure in Missouri, including a new data center in New Florence, located in Montgomery County. This investment is built on a commitment to build data centers the right way—through responsibly increasing local infrastructure capacity, expanding energy affordability programs, and funding thousands of jobs in the region."

The growing metros in Arkansas should all really consider this,

Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist @UrbanCourtyard

2 weeks ago

if i become mayor of Dallas, there will be signs

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