Jon Sanders

Jon Sanders studies regulatory policy, a veritable kudzu of invasive government and unintended consequences. As director of regulatory studies at the John Locke Foundation, Jon gets into the weeds in all kinds of policy areas, including electricity, occupational licensing, hydraulic fracturing, the minimum wage, poverty and opportunity, state rulemaking, film and other incentives programs, certificates of need, and cronyism.

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With prison recidivism falling, licensing reform can open opportunities to the rehabilitated

This is an outcome civil society should encourage. And one of the best ways for them to do so is to find work. Unfortunately, for too many professions, especially in North Carolina, it's an outcome that occupational licensing boards have made unreasonably difficult.

Jon Sanders, August 14, 2018
Before installing rooftop solar to save on power bills, do the math

They paid $17,500 to install the panels to save $30/mo. After a standard

Jon Sanders, August 10, 2018
Research suggests NC’s film grant level is too high, even if it’s just to boost the film industry alone

Bradbury's findings would mean the rebate North Carolina is offering is two-and-a-half times greater than we would need — if our program were only about boosting the film industry here. Since it's about boosting the overall state economy? We need to get rid of it altogether as an ultimately ineffective ploy.

Jon Sanders, August 9, 2018
Film incentives benefit film productions, not state economies

New research from Kennesaw State University economist John Charles Bradbury finds "little evidence" that movie production incentives help state economies.

Jon Sanders, August 8, 2018
Denying the loathsome their self-evident individual rights means denying them to anyone

David French writes in The New York Times about the social-media platforms' coordinated action this week to remove Alex Jones and Infowars from their sites. French begins by acknowledging the obvious.

Jon Sanders, August 7, 2018
The ideas that built Western Civilization belong to all

Joe Lonsdale writes eloquently in The Economist August 3 that "Western Civilization is an idea worth defending — and reapplying."

Jon Sanders, August 6, 2018
Bipartisan effort in Congress to help states curtail occupational licensing

The new law would allow states to use federal education funds to identify and examine licenses or certifications that "pose an unwarranted barrier to entry into the workforce."

Jon Sanders, August 2, 2018
Georgia’s crude system for calculating film incentives’ “economic impact”

The film office simply takes the amount of spending reporting by film production companies in Georgia and multiplies it by 3.57. They've been doing it that way since 1973 but remember know why.

Jon Sanders, August 1, 2018

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Director of Regulatory Studies

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