Matt Bevin and Kentucky Republicans Are Making That State Competitive

Source: The Resurgent | January 9, 2017 | Erick Erickson

Don’t look now, but Governor Matt Bevin and the Republicans in the Kentucky legislature are throwing coal in the furnace of Kentucky’s economic engine. States like Tennessee, South Carolina, and Georgia haven’t had to take Kentucky serious in terms of job attraction because it was stuck in the past. It had a high prevailing wage law on public construction and was a unionized state. That has changed now.

Governor Matt Bevin has signed legislation making Kentucky the twenty-seventh right-to-work state. Not only that, but the legislature has just passed a prevailing wage law that will reduce the costs of public construction in Tennessee. Both laws together make Tennessee very competitive for business and competition is a good thing. The tax laws and business environment in Tennessee have attracted a fair number of businesses that were considering the Bluegrass state. Kentucky becoming more business friendly will force other business friendly states to up their game and that will benefit everyone.

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